Engineering Manager – Platform

Rula

Engineering Manager leading the Platform (Core Services) team at Rula, a remote-first mental health care company. Building scalable services and tools to enhance product development.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeRemote • Hawaii • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $206,550 - $243,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Platform (Core Services) team, which owns the core services and libraries our product engineering teams use across the Rula ecosystem.
You will lead a team of talented platform engineers to build and maintain highly flexible, reliable, and scalable services and tools to support the quality and velocity of our product development.
Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, you will define the team charter, establish ownership boundaries, and drive the mission of providing shared libraries and services.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional experience specifically building and maintaining backend platform infrastructure or shared services that support multiple product engineering teams
3+ years of experience directly managing a high-performing engineering team, with a focus on people development, performance management, and building high-trust environments
A proven track record of mentoring senior-level engineers in technical domains such as distributed systems, microservices architecture, or cloud-native infrastructure.
High familiarity with AWS (specifically IAM, VPC, and EKS) to ensure the scalability and security of core libraries
Demonstrated experience maintaining shared tooling and services with a focus on reliability, including establishing SLOs and managing high-availability systems.

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% remote work environment: Working hours to support a healthy work-life balance, ensuring you can meet both professional and personal commitments (must be based in United States, currently not hiring in Hawaii)
Attractive pay and benefits: Full transparency of pay ranges regardless of where you live in the United States
Comprehensive health benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and FSA/HSA
401(k) plan access: Start saving for your future
Generous time-off policies: Including 2 company-wide shutdown weeks each year for self-care (for most employees)
Paid parental leave: Available for all parents, including birthing, non-birthing, adopting, and fostering
Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Support for your mental and physical health
New hire home office stipend: Set up your workspace for success
Quarterly department stipend: Fun team-building activities or in-person gatherings
Wellness events and lunch & learns: Explore a variety of engaging topics
Community and employee resource groups: Participate in groups that celebrate employee identity and lived experiences, fostering a sense of community and belonging for all

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend platform infrastructureshared servicesdistributed systemsmicroservices architecturecloud-native infrastructureAWSIAMVPCEKShigh-availability systems

Soft Skills

people developmentperformance managementmentoringbuilding high-trust environments