The Role
Leads and develops an infrastructure engineering team responsible for critical production systems. Owns execution, prioritization, reliability, incident response, postmortems, operational readiness, and delivery of infrastructure initiatives. Partners with senior technical leaders and platform teams on architecture, dependencies, and strategy while managing performance, career development, and team execution.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and develop a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for critical production systems. This role combines people management with strong technical expertise, requiring a solid infrastructure background and deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for critical production systems
- Own team execution, delivery, and day-to-day prioritization in alignment with infrastructure strategy and architectural direction
- Run the shared goals and collaborate with the Infrastructure Security, and other platform teams
- Translate infrastructure priorities into clear team plans, milestones for both infrastructure and product teams
- Work with Staff and Senior engineers to ensure technical solutions are delivered effectively and aligned with established architectural principles
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and operational readiness of systems owned by the team
- Own the team’s operational practices, incident response, postmortems, and completion of follow-up actions
- Set clear expectations, run regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, and support engineers through performance reviews and Individual Development Plans
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 7+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, including 2+ years in an engineering management role within a Platform cluster
- Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams responsible for production infrastructure or platform systems
- Strong infrastructure engineering background, with sufficient technical depth to review architecture, challenge decisions, and work effectively with Staff and Senior engineers
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, especially AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation
- Experience operating highly available, business-critical systems, including incident management, on-call, postmortems, capacity planning, and operational excellence
- Proven ability to set priorities, build execution plans, and deliver complex engineering initiatives while balancing reliability, technical debt, operational work, and long-term investments
- Ability to delegate technical ownership and enable senior engineers to lead major technical initiatives
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to align teams, manage dependencies, and resolve organizational, process, and technical bottlenecks
- Professional working proficiency in English
- Experience operating infrastructure across multiple regions, data centers, or hybrid cloud environments
- Experience managing teams with significant networking or distributed infrastructure responsibilities
- Experience working in organizations where infrastructure teams provide internal platforms and services to a large number of engineering teams
Why join us
- Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 48 countries.
- Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs
- Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program
- Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects
- Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow
- Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs
- Annual salary from 90 700 EUR gross
Final benefits may vary depending on the location.
About
inDrive is a global tech company on a mission to challenge injustice through fair choices. We started in 2012 in the coldest city on Earth, when a group of friends created a way for people to agree on fair ride prices. That idea grew into one of the world’s top ride-hailing apps, now with 400M installs across 48 countries.Today, we offer more than rides: from freight and delivery to intercity travel and financial services, all designed to put people first. We are committed to having a positive impact on people’s lives both through our core business, which supports local communities via a fair pricing model; and through the work of our impact programs. Ready to ignite your inner drive?
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering
- 2+ years of experience in an engineering management role within a Platform cluster
- Experience leading and developing engineering teams responsible for production infrastructure or platform systems
- Strong infrastructure engineering background with technical depth to review architecture and challenge technical decisions
- Strong understanding of AWS, Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation
- Experience operating highly available, business-critical systems
- Experience with incident management, on-call, postmortems, capacity planning, and operational excellence
- Ability to set priorities, build execution plans, and deliver complex engineering initiatives
- Ability to delegate technical ownership and enable senior engineers to lead major initiatives
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, including dependency management and resolving organizational, process, and technical bottlenecks
- Professional working proficiency in English
- Experience operating infrastructure across multiple regions, data centers, or hybrid cloud environments
- Experience managing teams with significant networking or distributed infrastructure responsibilities
- Experience working in organizations where infrastructure teams provide internal platforms and services to many engineering teams
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The Company
What We Do
inDrive is a global IT and transportation platform inDrive is one of the world’s fastest growing online ride-hailing services. Its services are available in over 749 cities in 46 countries throughout the world. The Company’s app has been downloaded over 150 million times. inDrive offers other services, including intercity transportation, freight and cargo services, as well as delivery services in different markets of operations. inDrive is based in Mountain View, California, and operates regional hubs in the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the countries of the CIS, and employs over 2,000 people. In early 2021, inDrive achieved unicorn status after closing a $140m investment round with Insight Partners, General Catalyst, and Bond Capital, which valued the company at $1.23 billion.
