Engineering Manager, Infrastructure / Platform
Hybrid (San Francisco)$220k - $300kFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Engineering Manager to lead the Platform & Infrastructure team, enabling other teams to own and operate their own infrastructure with reliable foundations, self-serve tooling, guardrails, and hands-on guidance, while driving an agentic engineering transformation.
Responsibilities
- Leading and managing a team of engineers while setting strong output and productivity expectations
- Contributing technically, both through coaching and leadership as well as directly contributing: e.g. shipping smaller projects, bugfixes, and improving the agent environment using coding agents
- Driving your team's agentic engineering transformation: constantly asking what's still being done manually, identifying slowdowns and roadblocks, and actively closing the gap
- Setting the pace and driving velocity while articulating and setting a high quality bar
- Collaborating closely and effectively with partner functions like Product/Design/many more to execute effectively in the AI era
- Proactively pushing for changes to shared infrastructure, tooling, and systems that help the broader engineering org become more agentic
- Building and maintaining a healthy, high-performing team culture
Qualifications
- 8+ years of IC software engineering experience on fast-paced, high performance teams
- 4+ years of direct team management experience
- Strong backend, systems, platform/infra, or performance background
- Deeply technical and building faster than ever with coding agents
- High agency but low ego
- Strong conviction that 10x engineering output is possible with agentic tools and practices
- Proven ability to drive velocity, hold a high quality bar, and give direct performance feedback
- Excited about working in-person in San Francisco at least 3-4 days per week
Skills
Required:IC software engineeringPeople managementBackend / systems / platform / infra
Nice to have:Agentic engineering
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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