Senior Platform Engineering Manager – AI-Driven Infra

Vectra; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Vectra in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead key areas of our Platform engineering organization. The Platform team builds and operates foundational software, infrastructure, and tooling used by our products, customers, support teams, and engineering teams.

This role is a senior management position combining strong technical judgment, people leadership, and cross-functional execution to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable platform services across appliance

Qualifications

• 5 years of engineering management or technical leadership experience.
• Experience leading teams that deliver reliable, secure, and scalable software.
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to discuss architecture, design, code quality, operations, and delivery tradeoffs.
• Experience with modern software engineering practices including code review, source control, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and operational readiness.
• Strong Linux/Unix proficiency.
• Experience managing Agile delivery practices such as sprint planning, retrospectives, roadmap planning, and project visibility.
• Ability to lead cross-team initiatives with complex dependencies and ambiguous ownership boundaries.
• Strong communication, organizational, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, motivate, and grow engineers and technical leads.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow one or more engineering teams responsible for foundational platform capabilities.
• Provide direct management, coaching, career development, and performance feedback for engineers and technical leads.
• Drive predictable delivery through clear planning, ownership, estimation, Jira hygiene, retrospectives, and consistent follow-through.
• Partner with Product Management and engineering leadership to define priorities, clarify requirements, and make thoughtful tradeoffs.
• Participate in architecture discussions and guide technical direction across platform systems.
• Own operational excellence for team-owned services, including reliability, security, incident response, observability, and root-cause follow-up.
• Improve platform services consumed by internal engineering teams and customer-facing products.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering efficiency through AI-assisted development, automation, and better internal tooling.
• Encourage responsible use of AI tools for code understanding, test generation, documentation, operational analysis, and repetitive workflow automation.
• Partner with engineering leaders to evaluate where AI can reduce toil, improve delivery predictability, and help teams move faster without compromising quality, security, or maintainability.
• Ensure production deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and well-supported by automation.
• Help define and mature service ownership, operational scorecards, and platform standards across teams.
• Partner with recruiting to hire, onboard, and retain strong engineering talent.
• Communicate clearly with senior leaders about progress, risk, delivery health, and investment needs.

Skills

Engineering management

Technical leadership

Production software

Platform systems

CI/CD

Linux/Unix

Agile delivery

Cross-team leadership

Communication

Mentoring engineers

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Packer

Job description

Vectra in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead key areas of our Platform engineering organization. The Platform team builds and operates foundational software, infrastructure, and tooling used by our products, customers, support teams, and engineering teams.

This role is a senior management position combining strong technical judgment, people leadership, and cross-functional execution to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable platform services across appliance