Platform Engineering Manager - Scale & Reliability

ETHOS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

ETHOS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Platform Engineering, owning systems powering policy products from funnel to policy lifetime.

This hands-on leadership role shapes architecture, strategy, and culture. You will own outcomes, drive reliability, velocity, and cross-team collaboration with Product and Staff Engineers.

The role emphasizes observability, testing, incident response, and translating ambiguous business problems into well-scoped projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management experience in high-growth organizations.
• Experience building and mentoring platform teams.
• Strong written communication in PRDs, design docs, postmortems.
• Champions engineering quality through testing and code reviews.
• Self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity and quick trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own the outcomes for your domain end to end - the strategy, the technical direction, and the results.
• Hire, grow, and retain engineers and leads, and mentor the team through design and architecture reviews.
• Partner with Product and Staff Engineers to build the technical roadmap and run quarterly planning.
• Own cross-team architectural decisions and the internal standards other teams build on.
• Set the engineering quality bar, system reliability, test coverage, incident response SLAs, and on-call health.
• Drive operational excellence: observability, runbook quality, postmortem culture, and reduction of toil.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into well-scoped projects with clear milestones and honest timelines.

Skills

Engineering management

Team leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Written communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

AWS

TypeScript/Node.js

Datadog

Job description

ETHOS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Platform Engineering, owning systems powering policy products from funnel to policy lifetime.

This hands-on leadership role shapes architecture, strategy, and culture. You will own outcomes, drive reliability, velocity, and cross-team collaboration with Product and Staff Engineers.

The role emphasizes observability, testing, incident response, and translating ambiguous business problems into well-scoped projects.