Senior Engineering Manager, Platform & Video Infra

Motorola Solutions; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work models

Paid time off

Parental leave

Health care benefits

Stock grants

Employee stock purchase plans

Mentor relationships

Learning and development opportunities

Rotation programs

Retirement benefits

Global wellness resources

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

Motorola Solutions is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to guide the Platform & Video Infrastructure org. You will lead a distributed team delivering high-throughput GCP infrastructure, AI-powered pipelines, and video ingestion systems.

As a senior leader, you will align technical strategy with execution, ensuring reliability, scale, and secure, zero-trust networking across environments. Strong experience in DevOps and cross-team collaboration is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/CE.
• 10+ years in software, infrastructure, and platform engineering.
• 3+ years in direct engineering management leading distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed org of Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, and Managers.
• Drive platform reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency on GCP.
• Define 0–2 year technical roadmaps for video ingestion and evidence pipelines.
• Own headcount planning, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Foster a remote-first culture with accountability and feedback.

Skills

Team leadership

Strategic planning

Cloud & DevOps mindset

Security & IAM awareness

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

GKE

Terraform

Anthos Service Mesh

Kafka

Vertex AI

Job description

Motorola Solutions is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to guide the Platform & Video Infrastructure org. You will lead a distributed team delivering high-throughput GCP infrastructure, AI-powered pipelines, and video ingestion systems.

As a senior leader, you will align technical strategy with execution, ensuring reliability, scale, and secure, zero-trust networking across environments. Strong experience in DevOps and cross-team collaboration is required.