Director of Platform Engineering, Relocation to Bangkok

Manatal

Key Responsibilities

• **Drive Technical Excellence:**
• Lead major technical initiatives, ensuring architectural soundness, scalability, and long-term impact.
• **Own Delivery:**
• Oversee full project lifecycles from design to deployment with a focus on speed, quality, and reliability.
• **Release Management:**
• Run a predictable release process with progressive delivery, clear rollout and rollback strategies, and strong operational readiness.
• **Platform Ownership:**
• Own the AWS and Kubernetes platform end-to-end, including reliability, security, performance, and cost.
• **Hands-On Execution:**
• Stay close to the work by writing code, reviewing PRs, debugging production issues, and improving core services when needed.
• **Infrastructure as Code:**
• Design, standardize, and maintain Terraform-managed environments and operational best practices.
• **CI/CD and Velocity:**
• Own CI/CD pipelines, improve build and deploy reliability, reduce lead time, and remove friction from the developer workflow.
• **Observability and Reliability:**
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and SLO-driven reliability practices.
• **On-Call Leadership:**
• Build and manage on-call rotations, incident response, escalation paths, and postmortems with clear follow-ups.
• **Technical Standards:**
• Set and enforce engineering standards for architecture, code quality, security, and operational discipline.
• **Team Leadership:**
• Mentor and develop engineers, create ownership, and keep priorities clear and execution under control.
• **Cross-Functional Alignment:**
• Partner with Product and other stakeholders to align platform work with business goals and delivery commitments.

Qualifications

• We are looking for a hands-on Director of Platform Engineering with the qualifications below.
• Each requirement is mandatory for this role:
• **Software Engineering Background:**
• 8+ years building and operating production web applications and systems.
• **Platform Engineering Background:**
• 5+ years owning AWS and Kubernetes in production, including reliability, security, and cost control.
• **Hands-On Leadership:**
• Regularly designs, implements, debugs, and reviews code and infrastructure, and can execute independently when needed.
• **Startup Mindset:**
• Thrives in fast-moving startups, takes ownership, works hard when needed, and brings high energy with a bias for action.
• **Infrastructure as Code Experience:**
• Proven Terraform ownership across multiple environments, including networking, compute, and access controls.
• **Delivery and Releases:**
• Owns CI/CD pipelines, release processes, progressive rollouts, and rollback strategies to keep deployments fast and safe.
• **Observability Stack:**
• Has implemented and operated monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards with Datadog and/or Prometheus/Grafana.
• **On-Call Operations:**
• Build, manage and run on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems, and is willing to be on-call when required.
• **Execution Focus:**
• Sets clear priorities, protects development velocity, and keeps platform work under control.
• **Communication Skills:**
• Communicates clearly and directly, and collaborates effectively across engineering and product.
• **English Fluency:**
• Fluent in spoken and written English for high-stakes technical discussions.
• **Relocation Readiness:**
• Based in Bangkok or willing to relocate and work in a multicultural team.
• Working with Manatal
• This role is based at our Bangkok office in the heart of the city center
• As a team of diverse cultures and nationalities, English language proficiency is required
• We enjoy collaborating in person, and the team is working on-site
• Why you'll enjoy working with Manatal
• Well-funded start-up backed by Surge & Sequoia
• Be part of one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS start-ups in the region
• You will be collaborating with talented individuals in the industry
• Join a lively and highly international team
• Indulge in a challenging and innovative working culture
• Attractive medical healthcare plan
• Personal development allowance
• 2 weeks of work from anywhere per year
• Regular fun team-building activities

Hiring Process

Our Tech Stack

• Our engineering team leverages a variety of modern technologies.
• While working at Manatal, you can expect to be exposed to the following stack:
• **Infrastructure:**
• Amazon Web Services; Kubernetes; GitOps (ArgoCD), GitHub Actions, Terraform, among others.
• **Backend:**

• Language: Python (Django, FastAPI);

• Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Open/ElasticSearch, and Redis, among others;
• Other: Celery, RabbitMQ, among others.
• **Frontend:**

Typescript (Vue, React)

• Learn more about Manatal:
• Get to know more about us and our product: www.manatal.com
• Watch a product demo of Manatal product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v\=-GG1GqXkAKQ

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