Engineering Manager, Cross-Platform Client Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks an Engineering Manager for the Client Platform Engineering (CPE) team. You will lead a cross-platform engineering group responsible for the strategy, delivery, and operation of the company’s client foundation, balancing security, reliability, and developer velocity.

You will guide architecture, enable Codex and agent capabilities, and partner across Security, IT, Research, Product, and other engineering teams to ship durable platform outcomes across macOS,

Qualifications

• Led teams that owned secure, reliable, mission-critical services at scale.
• Delivered internal platforms and tooling improving reliability, security, and employee experience.
• Made sound software and infrastructure engineering decisions at scale; endpoint expertise preferred.
• Raised production readiness via architecture reviews, IaC/GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and risk tradeoffs.
• Managed security risk through staged rollouts, incidents, and compliance considerations.
• Committed to joining the team’s engineering on-call rotation after ramp-up to improve reliability and reduce toil.
• Built inclusive teams with clear communication and cross-functional influence.
• Deep experience with client-platform tool ecosystems such as Jamf, Intune, Android Enterprise, FleetDM/osquery, Munki/AutoPkg, or Linux configuration management.
• Experience building internal platforms or services for app delivery, device posture/trust, onboarding, notifications, workflow orchestration, or fleet telemetry.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, Terraform, Kubernetes/containers, service orchestration, and large-scale observability.
• Experience partnering with security, compliance, or privacy teams in high-assurance environments.
• Experience supporting research, developer, robotics, hardware-lab, or other specialized computing environments.
• A record of contributing to open-source tooling, engineering communities, or cross-company technical standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team; hire thoughtfully, coach engineers, create clarity, and foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture that pushes perceived limits.
• Define and execute a multi-year client-platform strategy and roadmap across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux, including how Codex and agents can reshape employee computing.
• Provide technical direction for endpoint posture, device trust, application delivery, device onboarding, updates, fleet telemetry, workflow orchestration, and employee-facing remediation.
• Guide architecture and engineering tradeoffs across first-party services, open-source tooling, SaaS platforms, IaC/GitOps, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.
• Establish clear goals, ownership, planning, design reviews, and execution rhythms that let the team move quickly without sacrificing quality.
• Raise the bar for reliability and evidence-backed security through observability, drift detection, staged rollouts, release gates, rollback paths, incident learning, runbooks, and healthy operational ownership.
• Partner with Security, IT, Research, Applied, Product, and specialized engineering teams to align priorities and land company-wide changes.
• Balance strong security and compliance controls with developer velocity, employee experience, and operational simplicity.
• Use adoption, reliability, evidence-backed security posture, data freshness, employee experience, workflow completion, friction, agent effectiveness, and operational-load metrics to steer investment and communicate impact.
• Partner with IT and Security teams to compound CPE’s impact across employee experience, security posture, and operational scale.
• This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Skills

Team leadership at scale

System design

Endpoint security

IaC/GitOps

Observability

On-call experience

Inclusive leadership

Client-platform tooling ecosystems

Internal platform development

Cloud infrastructure / Kubernetes

Security/compliance collaboration

Specialized computing environments

Open-source contributions

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC seeks an Engineering Manager for the Client Platform Engineering (CPE) team. You will lead a cross-platform engineering group responsible for the strategy, delivery, and operation of the company’s client foundation, balancing security, reliability, and developer velocity.

You will guide architecture, enable Codex and agent capabilities, and partner across Security, IT, Research, Product, and other engineering teams to ship durable platform outcomes across macOS,