Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

Replit; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Replit is hiring a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Cloud Infrastructure, overseeing shared IaC, networking, storage, compute, and service mesh platforms used across product teams.

You will grow and empower a high-ownership team, translate requirements into sequenced outcomes, and ensure platform availability and reliability with robust incident response. This role blends design depth with leadership scope.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering management and team development.
• Experience building and operating cloud platforms or distributed systems.
• Strong production-change risk assessment and incident handling skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the cloud-platform roadmap.
• Lead IaC, networking, storage, compute, and service mesh platforms.
• Translate needs into sequenced outcomes balancing investment and delivery.
• Make infrastructure repeatable and self-service.
• Enable internal teams to provision infrastructure without bespoke coordination.
• Own platform availability, upgrades, isolation, and incident remediation.
• Maintain clear SLOs and on-call coverage.
• Review designs and production changes and debug failures.

Skills

Engineering management

Kubernetes

IaC

Networking

Service mesh

Team leadership

Production incident handling

Tools

AI coding tools

Job description

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

About the Role

Replit enables people to build software with AI. The infrastructure underneath that experience must make it straightforward to launch services, isolate workloads, and run reliable systems at scale.

We're hiring a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Cloud Infrastructure: the shared infrastructure as code (IaC), networking, storage, compute, and service mesh platforms that Replit's product and platform teams depend on.

You’ll lead and grow an existing engineering team building and operating these foundations, including Kubernetes, shared edge networking, service mesh and workload identity.

This is a platform-building role with production accountability.

You should be comfortable going deep on a design or incident while developing a team that does not depend on you for every decision.

What You’ll Do

• Own the cloud-platform roadmap.
• Lead the team’s IaC, networking, storage, compute, and service mesh platforms.
• Translate product, platform, reliability, and security needs into sequenced outcomes, balancing foundational investment, lifecycle work, and delivery commitments against the team’s capacity.
• Make infrastructure repeatable and self-service.
• Build maintained IaC interfaces for services, cells, connectivity, identities, and shared resources.
• Enable internal customer teams to provision infrastructure without bespoke coordination or dependence on individual experts.
• Operate what the team builds.
• Own platform availability, upgrades, isolation, recovery, and incident remediation.
• Maintain clear SLOs, sustainable on-call coverage, and primary and backup owners for critical systems.
• Stay technically engaged.
• Review designs and production changes, debug difficult failure modes, and use AI coding tools including Replit to prototype and automate.
• Apply rigorous review and verification to AI-generated infrastructure changes.
• Build and grow a high-ownership engineering team.
• Coach engineers, develop technical leaders, set clear expectations, manage performance, and hire against agreed needs.
• Delegate meaningful ownership as the team grows.

What You’ll Bring

• Demonstrated engineering management. You have led and developed engineers, made prioritization and performance decisions, hired thoughtfully, and delivered through a team—not only acted as its strongest individual contributor.
• Software-oriented infrastructure depth. You have built and operated cloud platforms or distributed systems and can reason across infrastructure code, Kubernetes, networking, service identity, and stateful dependencies.
• Safe-change and production judgment. You have owned consequential migrations and incidents, can explain failure modes and rollback limits, and know when simplifying a system is better than adding another platform.

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