Engineering Manager, Platform & Infra - Lead AI Systems

Speak; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Speak is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Platform & Infrastructure team in San Francisco. You will empower multiple engineering squads to own and operate their own infrastructure, delivering reliable foundations, self-serve tooling, and guardrails to move fast while ensuring a top-tier user experience.

You’ll guide a technically strong team, drive the agentic engineering transformation, and collaborate with Product/Design to push for scalable infrastructure improvements in the AI era.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IC software engineering experience on fast-paced, high performance teams.
• 4+ years of direct team management experience.
• Strong backend, systems, platform/infra, or performance background.
• Deeply technical and building faster than ever with coding agents.
• High agency but low ego.
• Strong conviction that 10x engineering output is possible with agentic tools and practices.
• Proven ability to drive velocity, hold a high quality bar, and give direct performance feedback.
• Excited about working in-person in San Francisco at least 3-4 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing a team of engineers while setting strong output and productivity expectations
• Contributing technically, both through coaching and leadership as well as directly contributing: e.g. shipping smaller projects, bugfixes, and improving the agent environment using coding agents
• Driving your team's agentic engineering transformation: constantly asking what's still being done manually, identifying slowdowns and roadblocks, and actively closing the gap
• Setting the pace and driving velocity while articulating and setting a high quality bar
• Collaborating closely and effectively with partner functions like Product/Design/many more to execute effectively in the AI era
• Proactively pushing for changes to shared infrastructure, tooling, and systems that help the broader engineering org become more agentic
• Building and maintaining a healthy, high-performing team culture

Skills

IC software engineering

team management

backend systems

platform/infra

coding agents

high agency

velocity & quality

Job description

Speak is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Platform & Infrastructure team in San Francisco. You will empower multiple engineering squads to own and operate their own infrastructure, delivering reliable foundations, self-serve tooling, and guardrails to move fast while ensuring a top-tier user experience.

You’ll guide a technically strong team, drive the agentic engineering transformation, and collaborate with Product/Design to push for scalable infrastructure improvements in the AI era.