Cloud Platform Engineering Manager for Robotics

Socket.dev; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 220,203 - 275,254; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Stock options

401(k) plan with match

Comprehensive health benefits

Flexible Spending Accounts

Daily on-site lunch

Gym on campus

Community and learning events

Job summary

Brain Corp in San Diego, CA, seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Platform team, owning reliability, roadmap, and architecture for the cloud backbone behind Brain robots. You will guide a group of engineers, shape high-availability design, and partner with senior technical leaders to scale the platform.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, on-call reliability, and cost management while maintaining engineering rigor and delivering customer-focused cloud capabilities across products

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in cloud, platform, or backend systems.
• 2-3 years in a formal people-management role leading engineering teams.
• Proven track record delivering and operating production cloud services at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a cloud platform team, fostering ownership, accountability, and high-quality engineering execution
• Own hiring, onboarding, and ramp-to-impact across the Cloud Platform team, building the bench through a period of senior hiring and growth
• Own roadmap execution, the sprint and release cadence, and on-time delivery of cloud platform capabilities across the Robot and Customer interfaces
• Define and execute the team roadmap aligned with company and Platform strategy, balancing near-term execution against long-term platform health
• Own production reliability, on-call rotation, and incident response, driving toward clear service-level objectives and durable fixes

Skills

Team leadership

Cloud engineering

GCP

Agile SDLC

Strategic planning

Education

MS in Computer Science or related field

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP

Terraform

Pulumi

PostgreSQL / AlloyDB

Job description

Brain Corp in San Diego, CA, seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Platform team, owning reliability, roadmap, and architecture for the cloud backbone behind Brain robots. You will guide a group of engineers, shape high-availability design, and partner with senior technical leaders to scale the platform.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, on-call reliability, and cost management while maintaining engineering rigor and delivering customer-focused cloud capabilities across products