Manager Platform Engineering

Geniuslink; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days

Sick days

Volunteer days

Additional perks

Job summary

Geniuslink is seeking a Manager, Platform Engineering to lead a team that powers our internal platform. You will own scalable cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and the observability stack, ensuring reliability, security, and efficiency across environments.

You will mentor a small team while collaborating with product engineering and leadership to align platform capabilities with architectural decisions. This role offers remote work with global reach and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production cloud infrastructure experience
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems
• Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for production
• Strong observability knowledge with Grafana/Prometheus/Loki
• Containerization expertise (Docker/Kubernetes/Nomad)
• Strong incident management and RCA skills
• Ability to balance long-term architecture with short-term delivery
• Collaborative communication across teams and leadership

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate a scalable cloud infrastructure to support high availability and performance
• Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
• Implement and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code to standardize environments and reduce drift
• Build, operate, and improve observability systems for visibility into health and performance
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems; drive improvements
• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer workflows and reliability, align platform with architecture
• Establish and enforce best practices for platform and deployment excellence
• Optimize infrastructure costs and resource utilization
• Embed security best practices into infrastructure and deployment workflows
• Lead, mentor, and grow a small platform engineering team
• Drive improvements to developer experience through tooling and automation
• Lead capacity planning, prioritization, and hiring for the platform function

Skills

Public cloud

Distributed systems

IaC Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Docker & Kubernetes

Incident management

Architecture leadership

Developer experience

Capacity planning

Tools

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Docker

Kubernetes

Nomad

Job description

As the Manager, Platform Engineering, you will lead the team and own the systems, tooling, and processes that power our internal platform ensuring engineers can ship quickly, safely, and with confidence.

You will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of our environments across development, staging and production. You will work closely with product engineering, data, and leadership, contributing to company-level planning and decision‑making.

You will guide platform and infrastructure decisions while remaining hands‑on, continuously improving the foundations that support everything we build at Geniuslink.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate a scalable cloud infrastructure (DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS) to support high availability and performance
• Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and repeatable deployments across services
• Implement and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform) to standardize environments across development, staging, and production and reduce drift
• Build, operate, and improve observability systems (metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and profiling) to ensure visibility into system health, performance, and resource efficiency
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes; drive improvements to prevent recurrence
• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer workflows, infrastructure, deployment strategies, and overall reliability, and with the CTO/Chief Architect to align platform capabilities with system design and architectural decisions
• Establish and enforce best practices for platform, infrastructure, deployment, and operational excellence across teams, treating the platform as a product for internal users
• Optimize infrastructure costs and resource utilization, making informed tradeoffs with performance, reliability, and development velocity
• Proactively improve the security posture of our systems by embedding best practices into infrastructure, access controls, and deployment workflows
• Lead, mentor, and grow a small team of platform engineers, while providing technical leadership and guidance to the broader engineering organization on platform, deployment, and reliability practices
• Drive improvements to developer experience through better tooling, automation, and workflows, reducing operational toil and enabling faster delivery
• Lead capacity planning, prioritization, and hiring for the platform function

Location

Remote: Our team has been fully remote since 2020. This is a remote position, and we are open to candidates worldwide. We have successfully worked with team members across the USA, Canada, South America, and Asia.

Core working hours should align with our existing team's PST/PDT (UTC-08) +/- 3 hours work day.

Our ideal candidate

• 5+ years working with public cloud infrastructure in a production environment (DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, or similar)
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems and scalable infrastructure
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform or similar)
• Experience building and evolving CI/CD pipelines for reliable production systems
• Strong understanding of observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling) using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or similar
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar)
• Strong incident management, debugging, and root cause analysis skills
• Ability to balance long‑term architecture with short‑term delivery needs
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, and leadership, with the ability to contribute to planning and decision‑making discussions

Nice‑to‑have experience

• Experience supporting .NET‑based systems in production
• Familiarity with MongoDB and RabbitMQ performance and scaling considerations
• Experience with cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency at scale
• Experience with security best practices and compliance
• Experience improving developer platforms, internal tooling, or developer workflows
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers
• Experience working in an EOS‑driven company or with OKRs

Additional Details

The salary range for this position is $165,000 – $195,000 USD, depending on experience, skills, and location. You will also be eligible for vacation days, sick days, volunteering days as well as additional perks.

This is an open and available net NEW position created due to growth.

Geniuslink is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and will consider requests for reasonable accommodation during the application and interview process.