Engineering Manager - Platform

Empowering your engineering team to deliver high levels of technical quality and business impact.

Recruiting a diverse team of engineers recognized as some of the best in the industry, from outreach to closing.

Managing a team of engineers and facilitating their career development through challenging responsibilities and constructive feedback.

Actively participating in strategic direction and product decisions for your team.

Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of the Playlist engineering management team.

You are an experienced engineer who has successfully transitioned into a people leader, passionate about building and operating reliable, scalable cloud platforms and developer infrastructure that empower engineering teams. You possess extensive experience in at least one aspect of developing a world-class cloud platform and can effectively manage a high-performing team throughout the entire process.

You’ll thrive in this role with experience in:

3+ years of direct management experience with an engineering team of at least 6 members with skills across the stack

Hands-on experience building and operating production cloud platforms and Kubernetes/CNCF ecosystems in the public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Strong grounding in infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation, GitOps), with operational rigor across incident response, observability, networking, identity, compute, and storage at scale.

Proven ability to establish and articulate a vision, set goals, and execute effectively.

Technologies you’ll be working with:

We value adaptability and problem-solving over specific tools, but here’s what you’ll likely work with: