Platform Engineering Manager - Cloud, DevOps & Scale

Alo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Long term incentives

PTO policy

Job summary

Alo in San Ramon, CA seeks an Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering to lead the core platforms, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling for a high-scale eCommerce ecosystem. You will balance technical leadership with hands-on engineering to guide architecture and enable teams to deliver reliable systems safely and efficiently.

The role emphasizes architectural influence, cross-functional collaboration, and growing a high-performing team while maintaining a close connection to day-to-day

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with platform, infrastructure, or DevOps focus.

Responsibilities

• Define platform engineering strategy with multi-quarter roadmaps aligned with product priorities.
• Lead cloud and infrastructure engineering for compute, networking, storage, and infrastructure as code with focus on scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
• Guide platform architecture and critical technical decisions to ensure resilient systems.
• Own DevOps and CI/CD practices, improving build, test, deployment, and release workflows through automation.
• Address systemic risks by proactively identifying and resolving platform issues before impact on reliability or security.
• Build and maintain shared platforms and developer tooling to enable teams to operate at scale.
• Strengthen observability with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response for operational readiness.
• Partner with product, architecture, security, and application teams to align priorities and communicate risks.
• Lead and develop cross-platform engineering teams with mentorship and inclusive growth.
• Participate in hiring and team development to sustain a strong engineering culture.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

CI/CD automation

Architectural decisions

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Multi-region cloud

Open-source familiarity

Mentorship

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Alo in San Ramon, CA seeks an Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering to lead the core platforms, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling for a high-scale eCommerce ecosystem. You will balance technical leadership with hands-on engineering to guide architecture and enable teams to deliver reliable systems safely and efficiently.

The role emphasizes architectural influence, cross-functional collaboration, and growing a high-performing team while maintaining a close connection to day-to-day