Engineering Manager

Recruiting from Scratch LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer matching

Commuter benefits

Lunch and dinner in the office

Hybrid NYC office with offsites

Job summary

Recruiting from Scratch LLC in New York is seeking an Engineering Manager for Core Infrastructure to lead the team responsible for platform services, workflow orchestration, and data processing.

You will define priorities, mentor engineers, partner with Product and Success teams, and drive reliability and observability while contributing to technical design.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience within startup environments.
• Proven experience leading platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering teams.
• Strong technical background with architecture review and production code contribution.
• Experience managing high-throughput, data-intensive platforms and AI-powered infra.
• Track record of building high-performing teams with execution and ownership.
• Experience setting technical roadmaps in fast-changing environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing infrastructure engineering team for core services.
• Define team priorities, roadmaps, and execution plans aligned to business goals.
• Coach engineers through feedback, career development, and mentorship.
• Improve execution by reducing friction and raising delivery quality.
• Build a culture of shared ownership and team resilience.
• Partner with Product, Customer Success, GTM and other teams for impact.
• Drive reliability by setting goals, observability, and addressing tech debt.
• Lead architecture discussions and contribute to design and implementation.
• Help define engineering metrics and best practices as the org scales.
• Influence future structure and leadership of the engineering org with senior leaders.

Skills

Leadership

Engineering management

Architecture review

Communication

Mentoring

Strategic planning

Startup experience

Tools

AWS/GCP/Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Job description

Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

Location: New York, NY

Company Stage of Funding: Early-Stage Startup (Backed by Accel & Y Combinator)

Office Type: Hybrid (New York City)

Company Description

We're representing a rapidly growing infrastructure company building the technology that helps some of the world's largest digital platforms detect fraud, prevent abuse, and enforce trust and safety policies at scale. Their AI-powered platform enables organizations to manage content moderation, automate policy enforcement, investigate threats, and respond to increasingly sophisticated attacks across the internet.

Backed by leading investors including Accel and Y Combinator, the company is scaling its engineering organization to support growing customer demand. They're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team responsible for the foundational systems powering workflow orchestration, AI agents, platform reliability, and large-scale data processing. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on building high-performing engineering teams while remaining technically engaged.

What You Will Do

• Lead and develop a high-performing infrastructure engineering team responsible for core platform services and shared systems.
• Define team priorities, roadmaps, and execution plans aligned with business goals and engineering strategy.
• Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, and technical mentorship.
• Improve engineering execution by establishing clear ownership, reducing operational friction, and raising delivery quality.
• Build a culture of shared ownership that minimizes reliance on individual contributors and improves team resilience.
• Partner closely with Product, Customer Success, Go-to-Market, and other engineering teams to prioritize work and deliver customer impact.
• Drive operational excellence by establishing reliability goals, improving observability, and proactively addressing technical debt.
• Lead architecture discussions and contribute directly to technical design and implementation when appropriate.
• Help define engineering metrics, operational processes, and best practices as the organization scales.
• Influence the future structure and leadership of the engineering organization alongside senior technical leadership.

Ideal Background

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience within startup environments.
• Proven experience leading platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering teams.
• Strong technical background with experience reviewing architecture, guiding technical decisions, and contributing to production code when needed.
• Experience managing high-throughput, data-intensive platforms, workflow engines, automation systems, or AI-powered infrastructure.
• Demonstrated success building high-performing engineering teams with strong execution, ownership, and operational discipline.
• Experience setting technical roadmaps and prioritizing work in rapidly changing environments.
• Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools and how they improve engineering productivity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience collaborating across technical and customer-facing organizations.
• Passion for coaching engineers and creating environments where teams can operate autonomously.

Preferred

• Experience building Trust & Safety, fraud prevention, abuse detection, or platform integrity systems.
• Background working at the intersection of Product and Engineering.
• Experience supporting customer-facing infrastructure or technical implementation teams.
• Strong understanding of engineering operational metrics such as DORA, SLIs, SLOs, incident management, and platform reliability.
• Experience leading engineering organizations through rapid growth and organizational scaling.
• Startup experience building infrastructure products from early stage through significant scale.
• Strong opinions on engineering culture, team effectiveness, and operational excellence.
• Interest in AI infrastructure, workflow automation, and platform engineering.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive equity package.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer matching.
• Fully covered commuter benefits.
• Daily catered lunch and dinner in the office.
• Hybrid work environment based in New York City with regular in-person collaboration and company offsites.
• Opportunity to lead the engineering team responsible for the infrastructure powering trust and safety operations across some of the world's largest digital platforms while helping shape the future leadership of a rapidly scaling engineering organization.