Engineering Manager, Core Infra — Remote Platform Lead

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 84,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote first

25 days paid annual leave

3 paid days off for volunteering or L

Private Health Insurance

Mental Health Support Platform

FitPass

Family and friendly leave (statutory)

Personal L&D budget

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Job summary

Tide, a remote-first company, is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team that runs a containerised AWS EKS platform. You will hire, coach, and drive architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and security across databases and Kubernetes clusters.

You will empower product engineers to deploy and run services efficiently, manage stakeholder expectations, and balance priorities to achieve company goals. This role offers a flexible, distributed work model.

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, GCP, or both in regulated security environments.
• Experience running Kubernetes in production with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred).
• Understanding of using AI tools such as Claude for engineers and customers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead: Hire, coach, and set goals for a team of engineers.
• Plan: Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters.
• Protect: Ensure platforms meet targets for availability and security.
• Empower: Reduce deployment and run time for product engineers on the platform.
• Control cost: Help teams make cost-efficient service choices.
• Collaborate: Share context and build cross-team relationships.
• Balance priorities: Weigh technical decisions against goals.
• Measure: Track productivity with metrics like DORA and SPACE.

Skills

Distributed computing

Engineering leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Team delegation

Cloud security

AI tools usage

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Terraform

Terragrunt

Helm

Crossplane

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Coralogix

Angular

Flutter

Java

Python

Go

Job description

Tide, a remote-first company, is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Core Infrastructure team that runs a containerised AWS EKS platform. You will hire, coach, and drive architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and security across databases and Kubernetes clusters.

You will empower product engineers to deploy and run services efficiently, manage stakeholder expectations, and balance priorities to achieve company goals. This role offers a flexible, distributed work model.