Cloud Platform Engineering Manager: Scale & Reliability

Neura Market

San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 210,000 - 280,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

401(k)

Learning and networking opportunities

Job summary

Baseten is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Cloud Platform team in San Francisco. You will lead a group of cloud platform engineers to build scalable, reliable infrastructure and automation that powers ML deployments.

You'll drive architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and partner with product and engineering to align infrastructure work with business goals. You will stay closely connected to day-to-day technical work while shaping long-term direction.

Qualifications

Proven experience directly managing engineers in a cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE context (not managing managers).
Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, with the ability to engage credibly in architectural discussions and code reviews.
Strong background building and maintaining scalable, production infrastructure.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins).
Demonstrated ability to drive projects end-to-end — from specification to execution — and coach your team to do the same.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to influence across teams without direct authority.
Track record of recruiting and growing engineering talent.
Openness to learning about ML infrastructure; prior machine learning experience is not required.

Responsibilities

Recruit, hire, and grow a high-performing team of cloud platform engineers; provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and career development through regular 1:1s.
Set clear performance expectations, hold a high bar, and create an environment where engineers do their best work.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Drive day-to-day technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions; translate the infrastructure roadmap into clear team priorities and milestones, and hold execution against them.
Establish standards and best practices for reliability, performance, and operational excellence; ensure the team owns projects end-to-end, from specification through production.
Exercise and encourage good judgment on tooling and architectural tradeoffs, with a bias against unnecessary complexity.
Partner with product and engineering teams to align infrastructure work with business priorities; represent your team's progress, capacity, and technical tradeoffs clearly to leadership.
Serve as the escalation point for major incidents; drive resolution with urgency, ensure the team learns systematically, and stay connected to users so those learnings feed back into infrastructure improvements.