Software Engineering Manager

Your Next Hire; Greater London; Remote; GBP 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-growth tech company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the SRE and Platform Engineering teams. This hands-off role focuses on people, process, and operations, enabling fast and scalable delivery. The ideal candidate will thrive in a scale-up environment and balance team health with platform vision.

Benefits

Private Healthcare

Flexible Working

5% Pension

Qualifications

• Managed high-performing SRE or Platform Engineering teams.
• Understands modern infrastructure and developer tooling.
• Thrives in scale-up environments.

Responsibilities

• Leading two core teams: Site Reliability Engineering & Platform Engineering.
• Coaching and developing engineers across delivery, culture, and growth.
• Driving core platform initiatives CI/CD, infrastructure, observability.

Skills

Team Health

Delivery

Engineering Culture

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Backstage

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Growth Partner & Talent Advisor serving SAAS scale-ups

Location: Fully Remote

Salary: £75k + private healthcare + flexible working + 5% pension

We’re working with a high-growth tech company that’s scaling its platform to support millions of users and reliability, developer experience, and velocity are at the heart of it.

They’re now hiring an Engineering Manager to lead both the SRE and Platform Engineering teams. The role of an EM for this business is hands off, focused on People, Process & Operations - a true servant leader.

This is a key leadership role focused on enabling fast, safe and scalable delivery.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading two core teams: Site Reliability Engineering & Platform Engineering
• Coaching and developing engineers across delivery, culture, and growth
• Driving core platform initiatives CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, DevEx
• Shaping how product teams build, ship and operate software
• Creating the conditions for high performance, autonomy, and accountability

The stack includes:

AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform | GitHub Actions | Datadog | Backstage

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has managed high-performing SRE or Platform Engineering teams
• Understands modern infrastructure and developer tooling
• Cares deeply about team health, clear delivery, and strong engineering culture
• Thrives in scale-up environments and enjoys solving for speed and safety
• Can balance people, process, and platform vision

This is a rare opportunity to lead critical engineering functions in a business that truly values platform thinking.

Apply to learn more

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Media

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