Platform Engineering Manager — Scalable Infra & Tools

Muonspace; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Medical insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Muon Space seeks a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the Software Platform team, building the CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and data infrastructure that underpins Muon's products. You will scale a team of six engineers, shaping it into a product-minded platform serving Muon's internal developers.

This hybrid role requires on-site work at the San Jose, CA office three days per week, with strong emphasis on ownership, roadmap delivery, reliability, and collaboration with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years managing software engineering teams building and operating production systems.
• Direct experience managing a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE team, including responsibility for hiring, performance management, coaching senior engineers, and shaping team composition.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, backend services, or platform development, with hands‑on depth in Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS.
• Demonstrated experience supporting production systems with real uptime, reliability, and performance requirements (SLOs, on‑call, incident response, postmortems).
• Track record of establishing paved roads / Golden Paths and treating internal platforms as products, with developers as customers.
• Experience running a DevOps or SRE function embedded within a platform team (rather than as a separate silo), consistent with our team model.
• Experience defining technical direction and driving execution through a team, including prioritization, roadmap ownership, and stakeholder alignment.
• Strong communication skills and comfort partnering with cross‑functional stakeholders across engineering, security, and IT/information systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow the Software Platform team. Own hiring, performance management, coaching, and team composition for a growing platform organization. Actively recruit engineers to meet the demands of a rapidly scaling software department.
• Define team goals, and technical roadmaps that align with companies priorities.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of mission‑critical services operating in production.
• Work with cross‑functional stakeholders to translate mission needs into clear requirements and technical specifications.
• Drive engineering best practices including design reviews, code quality, testing, and observability.
• Manage team capacity, staffing, and growth, including hiring, coaching, and performance development.
• Promote a culture of technical ownership, continuous improvement, and pragmatic delivery.
• Build feedback loops with developer‑customers, prioritize based on real friction, and hold clear ownership boundaries so product teams retain accountability for their applications.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Platform development

Leadership

Hiring / performance management

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Bazel

Monitoring/Observability

Job description

Muon Space seeks a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the Software Platform team, building the CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and data infrastructure that underpins Muon's products. You will scale a team of six engineers, shaping it into a product-minded platform serving Muon's internal developers.

This hybrid role requires on-site work at the San Jose, CA office three days per week, with strong emphasis on ownership, roadmap delivery, reliability, and collaboration with