Engineering Manager, Core Infra & Platform (Remote)

Careers at Tide; United States; Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days

Volunteer days 3 days

Extended parental leave

L&D budget 500 EUR/year

Health & dental insurance

Mental wellbeing platform

Multisports card

Food vouchers

Snacks & drinks in office

WFH equipment allowance

Flexible working from home

Sabbatical Leave

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Job summary

Tide is hiring for a proven Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team. You will hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers while planning architecture upgrades and autoscaling across Kubernetes clusters.

You will ensure availability and security, empower engineers to deploy services, and collaborate with product teams. You will balance priorities and measure progress with DORA and SPACE metrics.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in distributed computing.
• 3+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• A degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Detailed knowledge of AWS and/or GCP in regulated environments.
• Experience running Kubernetes in production with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred).
• Understanding how to use AI tools such as Claude and how to help engineers use them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience managing stakeholders across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team of engineers with clear goals.
• Plan architecture roadmap, upgrades, autoscaling and capacity.
• Protect platforms to meet availability and security targets.
• Empower product engineers to deploy and run services on the platform.
• Control costs and guide cost-efficient choices for services.
• Collaborate and build cross-team relationships.
• Balance priorities against team and company goals.
• Measure productivity with metrics like DORA and SPACE.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed computing

Stakeholder management

Communication

Strategic planning

Cloud security

Team empowerment

Cost optimization

Mentoring

Data-driven metrics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

Crossplane

Helm

Claude

Job description

Tide is hiring for a proven Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team. You will hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers while planning architecture upgrades and autoscaling across Kubernetes clusters.

You will ensure availability and security, empower engineers to deploy services, and collaborate with product teams. You will balance priorities and measure progress with DORA and SPACE metrics.