Senior Engineering Manager, Control Plane

What You’ll Do

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers, creating a high-performing and inclusive team environment
• Drive execution against the platform technical roadmap, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and consistent delivery
• Partner with product and design to translate business needs into clear technical plans and high-quality user experiences in both a UI and API
• Stay close to the code: contribute to architecture, unblock engineers, and raise the technical bar across the team
• Own the control plane architecture for the Cloud Platform, with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to define and evolve APIs and services and deliver their product services on your platform
• Ensure strong engineering practices: testing, observability, CI/CD, and operational excellence
• Establish and track meaningful product and user experience metrics
• Support production systems, including participating in on-call rotations when needed
• Hire and develop top engineering talent, and build a culture of mentorship and continuous improvement

What We’re Looking For

• 5–10+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing applications
• 1–3+ years of experience leading or managing engineers (formal or informal leadership)
• Strong hands-on experience with a broad but not exhaustive set of modern microservice technologies (Kubernetes, Go, OpenAPI, Temporal, React, etc.)
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality customer services in production environments
• Experience translating product requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Solid understanding of performance, security, and scalability in microservice ecosystems
• Experience working with at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Familiarity with API design and integration
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally
• Experience supporting production systems and on-call in a 24x7x365 environment

Nice to Have

• Experience building and operating distributed systems (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog or similar)
• Experience working with NoSQL databases