Manager, Engineering - Platform Engineering

About the Role

We're looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Foundations team — a small, high-leverage group responsible for defining the engineering standards and foundational components that the entire platform is built on. This role is primarily technical — you'll stay close to the code and architecture while providing the leadership and direction a senior team needs to do its best work.

You'll work across backend services, DevOps practices, and event-driven infrastructure to establish patterns the rest of engineering depends on. You'll own the developer experience and component standards that every team builds on top of, and work closely with our Operations and SRE teams to align on reliability practices and observability standards.

This role is fully remote for applicants based in Canada.

What You'll Do

• Partner with engineering leadership to evolve and standardize the foundational architecture for a cloud-native, event-driven telecom platform — identifying areas for improvement and driving safe, incremental modernization alongside active development
• Own developer experience: build tooling, CI pipeline performance, dependency management, and inner-source contribution models across a shared monorepo
• Govern shared UI component standards and design system practices used across teams
• Establish and maintain engineering standards: RFCs, ADRs, architecture reviews
• Partner closely with Operations and SRE to define observability standards (tracing, logging, metrics), SLO/SLI frameworks, and reliability practices
• Champion AI-first development practices across tooling, workflows, and culture
• Manage and develop a small, established team of senior engineers

What You Bring

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with hands-on proficiency in Golang or similar languages
• Deep experience with event-driven and async architectures — Kafka, NATS, or comparable systems
• Background in platform or infrastructure engineering: you've built shared internal platforms, not just product features
• Experience defining engineering standards at an org level — RFCs, ADRs, or architecture review processes
• Strong DevOps sensibility: CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure
• Experience managing or mentoring engineers, with a bias toward growing people through the work
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and incomplete requirements

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with supporting & delivering frontend development and component/design systems — enough to govern a shared UI library
• Experience in telecom, BSS/OSS, or similarly complex domain platforms

What We Value

• AI-first mindset: you actively use AI tooling and advocate for it in your team's workflow
• Architectural depth: you can zoom out to the system and zoom in to the implementation
• Low ego, high ownership: you'll