Platform Engineering Manager: Cloud & Scale Leader

Doist; United States; On-site; USD 151,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Playlist seeks an experienced engineering leader to transition into people leadership, building and operating reliable, scalable cloud platforms and developer infrastructure. You will empower engineering teams and guide cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-impact, production-grade solutions.

You will drive architectural and technical decisions, champion IaC practices, and mentor engineers through growth opportunities while aligning with our strategic goals and resilience standards.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of direct management experience with an engineering team of at least 6 members across the stack.
• Hands-on experience building and operating production cloud platforms and Kubernetes/CNCF ecosystems in the public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Strong grounding in infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation, GitOps), with operational rigor across incident response, observability, networking, identity, compute, and storage at scale.
• Proven ability to establish and articulate a vision, set goals, and execute effectively.

Responsibilities

• Empower your engineering team to deliver high levels of technical quality and business impact.
• Recruit a diverse team of engineers from outreach to closing.
• Manage a team of engineers and support career development through challenging assignments and feedback.
• Contribute to strategic direction and product decisions for your team.
• Participate in engineering-wide initiatives as part of Playlist's engineering management team.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation

CI/CD

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure Pipelines

Flux

Karpenter

Job description

Playlist seeks an experienced engineering leader to transition into people leadership, building and operating reliable, scalable cloud platforms and developer infrastructure. You will empower engineering teams and guide cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-impact, production-grade solutions.

You will drive architectural and technical decisions, champion IaC practices, and mentor engineers through growth opportunities while aligning with our strategic goals and resilience standards.