Platform Engineering Manager

What You’ll Do

• Lead and manage a Platform Engineering team, ensuring members of the team's performance aligns with the overall department goals by holding direct reports accountable to performance expectations.
• Coach, mentor, and advocate for your engineers, growing a stronger team through stronger individuals. 
• Responsible for the delivery of high-quality, scalable platform solutions to production on a regular basis, owning the quality, documentation, tests, and communication across teams.
• Manage the team’s day-to-day with a high level of awareness of what your team/teams are doing to remove blockers and ensure efforts are aligned with the priorities. 
• Keep your team informed of the priorities and vision that is driving the organization, making sure they understand the what and the why, to advance the organization’s goals.
• Work with the Director of Engineering, peers, and Product partners to scope, plan, and execute platform initiatives with impeccable communication around estimates and risk.
• Advance the organization's goals within your team and ensure success in hitting them.
• Drive the development of custom tools and automation that hide Kubernetes complexity, streamline onboarding, remove manual toil, and improve mean time to detection and resolution.
• Oversee the design of robust CI/CD pipelines for applications and infrastructure.
• Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand and drive requirements for the internal developer platform, assessing benefit and risk analysis, and advising on the best course of action.
• Contribute your leadership and expertise to the broader organization, influencing more than just your direct team.
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders and SMEs to support growth initiatives and drive alignment on shared vision and objectives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience, with significant time spent in systems, software, platform, site reliability, or DevOps engineering
• 1+ year of people management or team leadership experience, including performance and career development. 
• Demonstrated ability to pragmatically balance business priorities with technical constraints.
• Experience driving initiatives, while holding teams accountable for results and ensuring continuous improvement.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Significant experience building or operating cloud applications on a major provider such as Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP.
• Expertise or significant experience with containerized workloads and Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.

The Perks of Working With Us

• Take advantage of our comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental coverage.
• Invest in your future with our matching 401(k) program.
• Build relationships and find your home at Arrive through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Enjoy office wide engagement activities, team events, happy hours and more!
• Leave the suit and tie at home; our dress code is casual.
• Work in the booming city of Austin, TX – we are in a convenient location close to the airport and downtown.
• Park your car for free on site!
• Start your morning with a specialty drink from our fully stocked coffee bar, Broker’s Brew.
• Sweat it out with the team at our onsite gym.
• Maximize your wellness with free counseling sessions through our Employee Assistance Program
• Take time to manage your physical and mental health - we offer company paid holidays, paid vacation time and wellness days.
• Receive 100% paid parental leave when you become a new parent.
• Get paid to work with your friends through our Referral Program!
• Get relocation assistance! If you are not local to the area, we offer relocation packages.