UJET

Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

UJET

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $175,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead a newly formed Platform & Developer Experience organization, composed of senior engineers from across the company.
  • Set the technical and product direction, remove friction, and deliver platform services and developer tooling that measurably accelerate engineering velocity and reliability.
  • Deliver highly scalable, performant, and resilient services used across the org; own infrastructure-related code, an internal chat/voice application, monitoring, and performance optimization.
  • Provide exceptional internal tooling to accelerate engineering velocity: developer environments, AI automation, frameworks and tools, and testing infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Outstanding cross-team communication (internal & external)
  • Proven ability to map stakeholders, communicate tradeoffs, and drive alignment across product, SRE/ops, security, infra, and external partners/customers.
  • Comfortable presenting to executives and translating technical detail into business impact.
  • Product vision and outcome-driven planning
  • Demonstrated experience writing clear team goals/OKRs and turning them into a 90–180 day roadmap with measurable adoption and impact metrics.
  • Habit of defining success criteria (adoption, latency, MTTR, cost, time-to-ship) and iterating based on metrics.
  • Tooling & process innovation to drive org efficiency
  • Track record of researching, piloting, and rolling out developer tooling/CI-CD/IaC/observability/process changes at scale.
  • Strong change-management instincts: training, incentives, feedback loops, and adoption metrics.
  • Deep technical/architectural leadership
  • Hands-on systems knowledge: cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, microservices patterns, capacity planning, fault isolation, and performance tuning.
  • Experience owning architectural direction and making pragmatic tradeoffs between scalability, reliability, cost, and developer velocity.
  • Comfortable reviewing code and infrastructure (infrastructure-as-code), and establishing lightweight governance (principles, templates, linters, architecture reviews).
  • Domain-specific platform experience
  • Building and operating highly scalable platform services and infrastructure-related code.
  • Monitoring, observability, and performance optimization at service-and-platform level.
  • Experience with real-time communication systems (chat/voice) or similar low-latency, stateful services is strongly preferred.
  • Developer Experience (DevX) expertise
  • Designing developer environments, internal frameworks, testing infrastructure, and internal tools that materially reduce time-to-first-commit and time-to-release.
  • Practical experience integrating AI automation into developer workflows and tooling.
  • Familiarity with internal platform tooling (SDK/CLI/portability tooling) and how to drive adoption.
  • People leadership & team build
  • Experience leading, coaching, and hiring senior engineers and engineering managers.
  • Strong at performance conversations, career development, and creating a high-trust culture that balances autonomy with alignment.
  • Influence without authority & stakeholder management
  • Skilled at negotiating constraints, prioritizing across competing needs, and getting buy-in for platform standards and migrations.
  • Execution & measurement orientation
  • Bias for measurable outcomes: adoption rates, CI/CD success rates, pipeline times, error budgets, performance improvements, developer satisfaction scores, etc.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with competing priorities and limited resources.
Benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401(k) plan
  • Commuter benefits
  • Flexible working hours
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
cloud-native architecturedistributed systemsmicroservices patternscapacity planningfault isolationperformance tuninginfrastructure-as-codedeveloper toolingAI automationmonitoring
Soft Skills
cross-team communicationstakeholder managementchange managementpeople leadershipinfluence without authorityexecution orientationperformance conversationscareer developmentnegotiationalignment