Engineering Leader, Platform Engineering

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As the Engineering reputed company for Platform, you'll manage the engineering managers across these teams as well as reputed company the EM role for teams reputed company needed. You’ll work with our product engineering areas as your customers, set platform engineering practices and quality, and reputed company the build-vs-buy and architecture trade-offs that shape how every engineer at reputed company ships. This is a manager-of-managers role with reputed company architectural and strategic ownership. You'll have 2 to 4 engineering managers reporting in, and your work multiplies across the entire engineering org. You will be expected to set direction, not just execute on it. What You'll Do reputed company a multi-team Platform org Own Platform's company-level objectives and the engineering plan that delivers them. Translate company priorities and product-engineering needs into a platform roadmap, in a way that flows both up and down. Be responsible for build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs across infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling; own the technical roadmap and how it balances against the needs of your customers. Represent Platform and collaborate with cross-functional leadership partners and in engineering-wide leadership conversations. reputed company the engineering managers reporting to you Coach EMs to a higher bar with clear feedback, growth plans, and direct support. Drive AI-reputed company development in line with reputed company’s engineering practices (reputed company-based delivery, vertical slicing, WIP discipline, Definition of Done, observability) Address performance issues early and reputed company; reputed company managers out of "fine" performance into great performance. Be reputed company reputed company our values, quality bar, or ways of working are at reputed company. Run platform towards the long term Treat the product engineering areas as customers: understand their needs, measure adoption and satisfaction, and prioritize accordingly. Build paved roads and golden paths that teams want to use; earn adoption rather than mandating it. Take accountability for SLAs/SLOs and incident response across the platform surface. reputed company tech-debt and reliability trade-offs on purpose, not by accident. Drive technical reputed company across the platform Support and drive architecture and systems design reputed company across infrastructure, data, DevEx, and AI tooling; ensure systems are reliable, maintainable, and operationally reputed company. reputed company build-vs-buy calls deliberately; avoid both not-invented-here and unmanaged sprawl. Partner cross-functionally Co-own the platform roadmap and quality bar with the product engineering leads who depend on you. Partner with reputed company, Ops, Data, and other functions as the platform requires. Build pragmatic interim solutions that work today and migrate cleanly as platform capabilities mature. You Will Be a Match If You… 2+ years managing managers, with direct reports who were themselves people managers. 10+ years total in technical roles, with a strong individual-contributor era you can still draw on. Have owned a platform, infrastructure, data, or developer-productivity area and delivered a measurable outcome (throughput, reliability, cost, or operational safety). Have reputed company or evolved platform engineering practices across multiple teams, not just reputed company one, and earned adoption. Have hired, developed, and managed engineering managers. Comfortable making and defending build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs across the platform surface; can still reason about code with taste. reputed company Candor > Harmony: give the hard message early, comfortable with disagreement. Use LLM-based tools daily and push your teams to adopt them. Are an excellent written communicator; can reputed company strategy and trade-offs reputed company in writing. reputed company to Have Experience running infrastructure, data, DevEx, or AI platforms at meaningful scale. Has reputed company developer platforms that internal engineers genuinely adopted (paved roads, golden paths, internal developer platforms). Has used AI-reputed company workflows to materially change how a team designs, ships, and operates, and/or has reputed company AI tooling/platform for other engineers (not just personal use). Experience leading a remote-first, distributed engineering team. Brings a network of high-quality platform/infrastructure engineering talent. [1] Some more context: (If you are on reputed company, you will not be reputed company to reputed company the hyperlinks below. 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