Platform Engineering Manager: Scale & Lead Dev Tools

Muon Space inc; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid vacation (3 weeks)

Holidays (12)

Unlimited sick time

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for the Software Platform team in San Jose, CA. You will lead an experienced team focused on CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS, delivering reliable, scalable platform services for internal tools and customer-facing products.

You will shape the platform as a product, partner with cross‑functional teams, and drive best practices while ensuring high uptime and performance for mission-critical workloads.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience.
• 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.
• Ability to hold clear ownership boundaries, comfortable saying "no" to work that belongs to product teams while still being a great partner to them.

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

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

DevOps

SRE

Leadership

Hiring & coaching

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Bazel

Artifactory

IAM/Okta

Grafana

Job description

Muon Space is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for the Software Platform team in San Jose, CA. You will lead an experienced team focused on CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS, delivering reliable, scalable platform services for internal tools and customer-facing products.

You will shape the platform as a product, partner with cross‑functional teams, and drive best practices while ensuring high uptime and performance for mission-critical workloads.