Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

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

ABOUT TIDE

At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting.

Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France.

Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love.

Tide facts:

• Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs

• Over 2 million members globally and rapidly growing

• Over $300 million raised in funding

• 3,000 Tideans globally

• Recognised with Great Place to Work certification three years in a row, and among India's Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026

• We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg

ABOUT THE TEAM:

The Core Infrastructure team provides a containerised cloud environment based on EKS that is the foundation of Tide's Platform Engineering provision to product engineering teams.

The team mission is to provide product engineers a platform so they can build great products for our members without directly provisioning cloud infrastructure.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Tide is hiring for a proven Engineering Manager to lead the team.

As the successful candidate you will:

• Lead: Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers.

• Plan: Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for our infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters.

• Protect: Make sure our platforms meet their targets for availability and security.

• Empower: Reduce the time that product engineers need to deploy and run services on the platform.

• Control cost: Help product engineering teams make cost-efficient choices for services that run on our platform.

• Collaborate: Share team context and build cross-team relationships.

• Balance priorities: Weigh technical decisions against team and company goals.

• Measure: Track team productivity with metrics such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

You are an engineering leader who stays technically hands-on. You know that the biggest challenges need effective delegation and team empowerment.

You have:

• 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 a regulated environment that requires security guardrails

• Experience running Kubernetes in production with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred)

• An understanding of how to use AI tools such as Claude, and how to help your engineers and customers use them efficiently

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions

You will stand out if you have:

• Platform engineering experience that abstracts Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product

• Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators

OUR TECH STACK:

• Cloud: 100% containerised on AWS EKS

• Infrastructure as code: Terraform and Terragrunt manage all platform infrastructure

• Deployments: ArgoCD with a GitOps approach

• Custom infrastructure: Helm and Crossplane manage the databases, S3 buckets, and other resources that each container needs

• Source control and CI/CD: GitHub and GitHub Actions

• Observability: Coralogix

• Product backend: Java, Python, and Go

• Client apps: Angular and Flutter

WHAT YOU'LL GET IN RETURN:

Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans:

• The gross annual salary for this position ranges from €75,200 to €105,750 but we are also open to discussing the salary further, taking into account your expertise and contributions.

• Remote first

• 25 days of paid annual leave

• 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities

• Private Health Insurance

• Mental Health Support Platform

• FitPass

• Family and friendly leave (according to statutory)

• Personal L&D budget

• Share Options

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model thatsupports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams.

While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community.

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