Platform Engineering Manager: Scale AI Backend Systems

Polluxa, Inc.; Eagan (MN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a Platform Engineering team that builds and operates core backend systems for AI agent platforms. You will own people-management, set technical strategy, and guide architecture decisions while partnering with engineering leadership to drive the roadmap.

You will oversee backend services, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and observability to ensure scalable, reliable delivery for product teams relying on the platform.

Responsibilities

• Own people-management responsibilities for a team of platform engineers — hiring, performance management, career development, and workload/priority balancing — while remaining technically engaged in architecture and code-level decisions.
• Set and communicate team-level technical strategy and roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership, translating business priorities into an execution plan.
• Guide the design and delivery of backend and platform services that power AI agent workflows — request/event ingestion, agent orchestration, document and file handling.
• Steer the evolution of CI/CD and progressive-delivery infrastructure that lets customer-facing product systems and internal tooling ship safely and continuously.
• Ensure the team owns and evolves the cloud infrastructure the platform runs on — provisioning, capacity planning, and environment configuration using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Champion sound backend architecture with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability across a microservices/event-driven system.
• Drive cross-functional technical initiatives with product, applied-AI, and infrastructure teams, de-risking multi-system projects from design through production.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices — code quality, automated testing, observability, CI/CD, and operational excellence across the stack.
• Champion observability across the platform — metrics, logging, and tracing for teams to operate complex systems with confidence.

Skills

People management

Technical leadership

Backend architecture

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

Microservices

Reliability engineering

Job description

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a Platform Engineering team that builds and operates core backend systems for AI agent platforms. You will own people-management, set technical strategy, and guide architecture decisions while partnering with engineering leadership to drive the roadmap.

You will oversee backend services, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and observability to ensure scalable, reliable delivery for product teams relying on the platform.