Engineering Manager - Core Infra
$240,000–$280,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Lead a high-performing infrastructure engineering team responsible for core platform services, workflow orchestration, and AI agent reliability. Define team priorities, roadmaps, and execution plans aligned with business goals while coaching engineers through regular feedback and technical mentorship. Establish clear ownership to reduce operational friction, improve delivery quality, and drive operational excellence through enhanced observability and proactive technical debt management. Partner closely with Product, Customer Success, and other engineering teams to prioritize work and deliver customer impact. Contribute directly to technical design and architecture discussions as the organization scales.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems
- 4+ years of engineering management experience within startup environments
- Proven experience leading platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering teams
- Strong technical background with experience reviewing architecture, guiding technical decisions, and contributing to production code when needed
- Experience managing high-throughput, data-intensive platforms, workflow engines, automation systems, or AI-powered infrastructure
- Demonstrated success building high-performing engineering teams with strong execution, ownership, and operational discipline
- Experience setting technical roadmaps and prioritizing work in rapidly changing environments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience collaborating across technical and customer-facing organizations
- Passion for coaching engineers and creating environments where teams can operate autonomously
- Relocation assistance available for qualified candidates
Desired Qualifications
- Experience building Trust & Safety, fraud prevention, abuse detection, or platform integrity systems
- Background working at the intersection of Product and Engineering
- Experience supporting customer-facing infrastructure or technical implementation teams
- Strong understanding of engineering operational metrics such as DORA, SLIs, SLOs, incident management, and platform reliability
- Experience leading engineering organizations through rapid growth and organizational scaling
- Startup experience building infrastructure products from early stage through significant scale
- Strong opinions on engineering culture, team effectiveness, and operational excellence
- Interest in AI infrastructure, workflow automation, and platform engineering
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