Remote Engineering Platform Manager

Socket.dev

United States

Remote

USD 139,000 - 189,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401k
Paid Time Off
Remote work

Job summary

Thrivent is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of platform and software engineers, owning the vision for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and developer experience initiatives. You will partner with engineers, architects, and product leaders to minimize friction and accelerate delivery at scale.

You will champion modern engineering practices, drive platform adoption, and evaluate AI-enabled development capabilities, while ensuring reliability, security, and maintainability of the

Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, platform engineering, IDPs, and developer experience at enterprise scale.
  • Experience implementing golden paths, paved roads, self-service engineering capabilities, and productivity tooling.
  • Experience defining platform success metrics (adoption, satisfaction, deployment efficiency, lead time, friction reduction).
  • Experience in developer productivity improvements through platform engineering and product thinking.
  • 8+ years in software engineering with focus on developer productivity and platform capabilities.
  • 3+ years of leadership driving technical strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership for Thrivent's Engineering Productivity ecosystem and IDP.
  • Define and drive the roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform across engineering teams.
  • Lead self-service engineering capabilities to streamline the development lifecycle and reduce friction.
  • Own platform health, reliability, security, scalability, and governance across enterprise-scale solutions.

Skills

Platform engineering
Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
Developer experience
Engineering leadership
Cloud-native development
CI/CD
Reliability engineering
Operational excellence
Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Thrivent is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of platform and software engineers, owning the vision for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and developer experience initiatives. You will partner with engineers, architects, and product leaders to minimize friction and accelerate delivery at scale.

You will champion modern engineering practices, drive platform adoption, and evaluate AI-enabled development capabilities, while ensuring reliability, security, and maintainability of the

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