Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform & Architecture

playlist株式会社; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target

Full benefits package

Job summary

Playlist is seeking an experienced engineering leader to take ownership of a growing team within the Playlist platform org. You will help build a scalable base foundation, set architectural direction, and partner across pillars to accelerate multiple verticals.

You will guide strategy, ensure high-quality delivery, and balance speed with long-term flexibility while working closely with Product and other Engineering teams to improve CRM and contact solutions across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of direct management experience with an engineering team of at least 6 members
• Proven track record designing, data-modeling, and building production cloud platforms (AWS) at scale
• Strong grounding in infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD with incident response, observability, networking, identity, compute, and storage at scale
• Proven ability to establish and articulate a vision, set goals, and execute effectively
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to cross-functional stakeholders
• Demonstrated success in establishing technical vision and driving measurable outcomes

Responsibilities

• Coach and empower your engineering team to deliver high levels of technical quality and business impact
• Actively participate in strategic direction and product decisions for your team
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of the Playlist engineering management team
• Make critical architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term system flexibility
• Establish clear goals, prioritize resources, and guide team execution through complex, ambiguous challenges
• Collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams to design and deliver a robust standard contact solution across verticals and CRM use cases

Skills

People management

Cloud platforms

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

GitHub Actions

Azure Pipelines

Flux

Flagger

Kafka

Job description

Playlist is seeking an experienced engineering leader to take ownership of a growing team within the Playlist platform org. You will help build a scalable base foundation, set architectural direction, and partner across pillars to accelerate multiple verticals.

You will guide strategy, ensure high-quality delivery, and balance speed with long-term flexibility while working closely with Product and other Engineering teams to improve CRM and contact solutions across the portfolio.