Manager, Software Engineer – Cloud Platform

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a seasoned engineering leader to guide a team delivering cloud platform capabilities, spanning event messaging, data, and storage. You will drive delivery, define roadmaps, and raise the bar on operational excellence across shared services used in a large-scale environment.

You will own backlog, planning, and team ceremonies while mentoring engineers, shaping a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, and ensuring scalable, reliable platform services.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading engineering teams in cloud platform or infrastructure environments.
• Strong background in cloud-native systems, shared platform services, and production operations.
• Proven track record delivering reliable services with robust monitoring and incident handling.
• Experience with backlog management, program planning, and execution rhythms in platform teams.
• Ability to hire, coach and develop engineers across levels and communicate across orgs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for cloud platform capabilities.
• Drive delivery and operational excellence for shared services used across the organization.
• Own backlog management, program planning, and team ceremonies to improve execution.
• Define and execute roadmaps for platform capabilities improving reliability and security.
• Improve monitoring, observability, deployment patterns, and release safety.
• Set expectations for engineering quality, incident response, and on-call maturity.
• Partner with stakeholders to align priorities and deliver platform capabilities.
• Foster a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Coach engineers and emerging leaders to raise performance and career growth.
• Ensure reusable, well-operated services across Azure and GCP.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Distributed systems

Platform services

Monitoring observability

Backlog management

Hiring coaching

Communication

Tools

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for cloud platform capabilities in event messaging, data, and storage
• Drive delivery and day-to-day operational excellence for shared services used across Nova
• Own backlog management, program management, planning, and team ceremonies to improve execution and clarity across the team
• Help define and execute the roadmap for platform capabilities that improve reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience
• Improve monitoring, observability, deployment patterns, release safety, and other operational practices needed to run highly reliable services
• Establish clear expectations for engineering quality, service ownership, incident response, on-call participation, and operational maturity
• Partner with engineering, platform, security, and product stakeholders to align priorities and deliver platform capabilities that meet customer needs
• Build a strong team culture grounded in accountability, technical excellence, continuous improvement, and operational ownership
• Coach engineers and emerging leaders through regular feedback, career development, and high standards for execution
• Ensure the team is building reusable, well-operated services that reduce complexity for platform consumers across Azure and GCP

Requirements

• Significant experience leading engineering teams in cloud platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, or related software engineering environments
• Strong technical foundation in cloud-native systems, shared platform services, and production operations
• Experience leading teams responsible for messaging, data, or storage platforms in production environments
• Experience building and running highly reliable services with strong practices around monitoring, observability, deployment patterns, and service operations
• Experience with backlog management, program management, planning, and team execution rhythms in a platform or infrastructure-focused organization
• Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, and develop engineers across multiple experience levels
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries
• Ability to connect technical decisions and platform investments to broader engineering and business outcomes
• Experience improving engineering execution, service ownership, on-call maturity, and operational excellence in growing platform organizations