Platform Engineering Manager — Equity Eligible

Vectra; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 185,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Vectra is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to guide multiple platform teams that build and operate core software, cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, and developer tooling. You will work with Product, Security, SRE, Cloud, Detection, and other leaders to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable systems across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive delivery through planning and governance, and shape platform ownership and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience, including ownership of production software, infrastructure, or platform systems.
• Experience leading teams that deliver reliable, secure, and scalable software.
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to discuss architecture, design, code quality, operations, and delivery tradeoffs.
• Experience with modern software engineering practices including code review, source control, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and operational readiness.
• Strong Linux/Unix proficiency.
• Experience managing Agile delivery practices such as sprint planning, retrospectives, roadmap planning, and project visibility.
• Ability to lead cross-team initiatives with complex dependencies and ambiguous ownership boundaries.
• Strong communication, organizational, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, motivate, and grow engineers and technical leads.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow one or more engineering teams responsible for foundational platform capabilities.
• Provide direct management, coaching, career development, and performance feedback for engineers and technical leads.
• Drive predictable delivery through clear planning, ownership, estimation, Jira hygiene, retrospectives, and consistent follow-through.
• Partner with Product Management and engineering leadership to define priorities, clarify requirements, and make thoughtful tradeoffs.
• Participate in architecture discussions and guide technical direction across platform systems.
• Own operational excellence for team-owned services, including reliability, security, incident response, observability, and root-cause follow-up.
• Improve platform services consumed by internal engineering teams and customer-facing products.
• Ensure production deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and well-supported by automation.
• Help define and mature service ownership, operational scorecards, and platform standards across teams.
• Partner with recruiting to hire, onboard, and retain strong engineering talent.
• Communicate clearly with senior leaders about progress, risk, delivery health, and investment needs.

Skills

Engineering management

Team leadership

Architecture discussions

CI/CD & DevOps

Linux/Unix

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Hiring and mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Packer

Job description

Vectra is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to guide multiple platform teams that build and operate core software, cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, and developer tooling. You will work with Product, Security, SRE, Cloud, Detection, and other leaders to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable systems across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive delivery through planning and governance, and shape platform ownership and operational excellence.