Remote Engineering Manager - AI Platform & Cloud Infra

Runpod; Mount Laurel Township (NJ); Remote; USD 110,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Home Office stipend

Flexible PTO

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Runpod is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team building customer-facing features across Runpod’s console, APIs, and developer workflows. You’ll take ownership of a roadmap area end-to-end - partnering with Product and Design to shape scope, then guiding your team through architecture, execution, quality, and launch.

This role leads with technical depth in Linux systems and cloud platforms, guiding a team that ships at millions of users scale.

Qualifications

• Engineering Management Experience: 2+ years managing a team of high performance software engineers, including ownership of roadmap delivery, hiring/firing, performance, and team culture.
• High-Scale Product Delivery: 6+ years as a software engineer building and shipping products used by millions of users, with clear evidence of personal impact.
• Systems-Level Technical Depth: Strong experience with Linux systems internals and/or cloud systems engineering - ideally building platform capabilities (orchestration, control planes, distributed services, networking or storage layers).
• Backend or Full-Stack Proficiency: Comfortable reviewing and contributing to code in modern stacks; Go, Python, and/or TypeScript experience preferred.
• Distributed/Cloud-Native Architecture: Solid understanding of microservices, APIs, eventing, data stores, and service-to-service communication patterns.
• Delivery & Metrics Mindset: Experience running execution processes and using metrics like cycle time, throughput, adoption, and escape defects to improve team flow.
• Remote-First Leadership: Proven ability to communicate clearly, align stakeholders asynchronously, and sustain momentum across time zones.
• Background check: Successful completion of a background check.

Responsibilities

• Own Feature Delivery for a Product Area: Lead a team of engineers responsible for shipping new functionality and iterating existing product surfaces.
• Plan and Execute Roadmaps: Translate product strategy into clear technical plans, milestones, and success metrics.
• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Drive pragmatic system design for product-layer services and workflows, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Build and Grow a Strong Team: Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; foster ownership and speed in a remote-first environment.
• Quality & Reliability for Product Surfaces: Improve automated testing, release safety, observability, and on-call health.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Program management, Support, GTM, and Infrastructure.
• Operational Excellence: Establish team rituals and delivery systems (sprints/kanban, retros, design reviews).
• Customer-Driven Execution: Incorporate feedback, analytics, and support signals into prioritization.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Roadmap ownership

Linux systems

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Go/Python/TypeScript

Remote leadership

Metrics-driven

Tools

Go

Python

TypeScript

Kubernetes

Job description

Runpod is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team building customer-facing features across Runpod’s console, APIs, and developer workflows. You’ll take ownership of a roadmap area end-to-end - partnering with Product and Design to shape scope, then guiding your team through architecture, execution, quality, and launch.

This role leads with technical depth in Linux systems and cloud platforms, guiding a team that ships at millions of users scale.