Manager, Platform Engineering

ZipRecruiter; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A premier technical staffing firm is seeking a Manager of Platform Engineering. This fully remote role involves leading a talented team responsible for building and scaling infrastructure for innovative SaaS products. Ideal candidates will have at least 7 years in relevant engineering roles, with a strong focus on team development, operational excellence, and cloud technologies. Excellent comprehensive health coverage and flexible time off are offered.

Benefits

Equity Grants

Comprehensive Health Coverage

Income Protection

Retirement Savings

Flexible Time Off

Health Savings Account

Quarterly Company Values Awards

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
• 2+ years in a management or leadership role.
• Experience with scaling distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers and DBAs.
• Design and implement core platform services.
• Manage incident workflows and uptime SLI/SLOs.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Communication

Team Development

Infrastructure Management

Problem-solving

Tools

Terraform

Postgres

GCP

Elastic

Job description

Overview

Come Build, Disrupt and Thrive!

KēSTA I.T. is seeking a Manager, Platform Engineering.

We\'re seeking an experienced Manager of Platform Engineering to lead a talented team responsible for building and scaling the infrastructure behind our innovative SaaS products. This leadership role involves overseeing platform engineers, SREs, database administrators (DBAs), and data specialists, while ensuring our infrastructure is reliable, secure, and optimized for growth. You\'ll have a direct impact on the foundation that powers mission-critical services, working closely with cross-functional teams to create a robust, scalable platform.

Note: This role is fully remote and available to candidates residing in eligible U.S. states.

Responsibilities

Your Key Responsibilities:

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead and mentor a diverse team consisting of platform engineers, SREs, DBAs, and data engineers.
• Cultivate a high-performance team culture that values accountability, growth, and continuous learning.
• Focus on individual career development while fostering a unified approach to engineering practices across specialties.

Core Platform Architecture

• Design and implement core platform services that power critical applications and enable future SaaS initiatives.
• Establish scalable frameworks, libraries, and best practices that ensure security, performance, and system reliability.
• Provide technical direction for multi-tenant architecture, regional data considerations, and future-proof compliance measures.

Reliability & Operational Excellence

• Take ownership of uptime SLI/SLOs, incident management, and troubleshooting workflows, collaborating with engineering teams.
• Champion observability and monitoring strategies to reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR) and improve system reliability.
• Work with QA leadership to integrate platform-level testing and automated checks into the CI/CD pipeline.

Data Infrastructure & Scalability

• Lead initiatives that ensure scalable and highly available database systems, including management and optimization of data storage.
• Define data management practices, from replication and query optimization to cost-effective scaling for large datasets.
• Drive the growth of our data architecture to support tens of billions of data rows, enabling advanced analytics and reporting capabilities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Translate product and business requirements into actionable platform capabilities that speed up development cycles.
• Collaborate with product, security, and compliance teams to ensure solutions adhere to industry standards, such as SOC2, GDPR, and others.
• Partner with DevOps and finance teams to optimize infrastructure costs and scale the platform efficiently.

We\'re Looking for Candidates with:

Must-Have Experience

• At least 7 years in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering, with 2+ years in a management or leadership role.
• Proven track record of managing teams with a mix of SREs, DBAs, and platform engineers.
• Hands-on experience scaling distributed systems to handle significant growth and ensuring their reliability over time.

Technical Expertise

• Strong familiarity with cloud platforms (preferably GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Proficient in modern backend technologies, such as Elixir, Go, Rust, or similar.
• In-depth knowledge of database systems (Postgres, ClickHouse, Elastic) and best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Comfortable with participating in system design reviews, architectural discussions, and conducting incident post-mortems.

Leadership & Communication Skills

• Excellent communicator capable of building trust and fostering collaboration across different teams and locations.
• Ability to balance rapid delivery with long-term infrastructure stability and resilience.
• A passion for developing and enabling engineers to achieve their best work through coaching, mentorship, and fostering a positive engineering culture.

Benefits

Why Join Us?

In addition to a supportive and dynamic work environment, we offer a range of perks and benefits that demonstrate our commitment to work-life balance, growth, and well-being:

• Equity Grants: Be part of the company’s growth and success.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage: 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents.
• Income Protection: 100% premium coverage for short-term/long-term, life, and AD&D insurance.
• Retirement Savings: 401(k) plan with a company match for the first 6% of your deferrals.
• Flexible Time Off: A flexible paid time off policy that respects your time and needs.
• Health Savings Account (HSA): Along with wellness incentives to support your overall well-being.
• Quarterly Company Values Awards: Recognize team members for embodying our core values, with peer-nominated awards.

Commitment to and :

We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, and we do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic. If you require accommodations for a medical condition or during the application process, please contact our HR team.

About KēSTA I.T.:

KēSTA I.T. is a premier Utah based technical staffing and consulting services firm. We specialize in temporary and permanent placement of software, hardware, network, cloud, CRM/ERP, data, end user support, web, and executive/leadership based positions on a full time and consulting basis. If you\'re interested in a role where top performance is rewarded, personal time is valued, and excellence is demanded at every level, we want to talk to you today!

Where do you want to go? We\'ve got the keys! ~ KēSTA I.T.

http://www.kestait.com