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Senior Software Engineering Manager, Software Platform

Muon Space· Engineering - Software
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Hybrid (San Jose, CA)$240k - $265kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead and grow Muon's Software Platform team (CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bazel, AWS, IAM, data infrastructure, etc.), acting as a product-minded platform organization serving Muon developers and internal tooling; hybrid role onsite in San Jose, CA three days per week.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow the Software Platform team. Own hiring, performance management, coaching, and team composition for a growing platform organization. Actively recruit engineers to meet the demands of a rapidly scaling software department.
  • Define team goals, and technical roadmaps that align with companies priorities.
  • Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical services operating in production.
  • Work with cross-functional stakeholders to translate mission needs into clear requirements and technical specifications.
  • Drive engineering best practices including design reviews, code quality, testing, and observability.
  • Manage team capacity, staffing, and growth, including hiring, coaching, and performance development.
  • Promote a culture of technical ownership, continuous improvement, and pragmatic delivery.
  • Build feedback loops with developer-customers, prioritize based on real friction, and hold clear ownership boundaries so product teams retain accountability for their applications.

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years managing software engineering teams building and operating production systems.
  • Direct experience managing a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE team, including responsibility for hiring, performance management, coaching senior engineers, and shaping team composition.
  • Strong technical background in distributed systems, backend services, or platform development, with hands-on depth in Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting production systems with real uptime, reliability, and performance requirements (SLOs, on-call, incident response, postmortems).
  • Track record of establishing paved roads / Golden Paths and treating internal platforms as products, with developers as customers.
  • Experience running a DevOps or SRE function embedded within a platform team (rather than as a separate silo), consistent with our team model.
  • Experience defining technical direction and driving execution through a team, including prioritization, roadmap ownership, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Strong communication skills and comfort partnering with cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, security, and IT/information systems.
  • Ability to hold clear ownership boundaries, comfortable saying "no" to work that belongs to product teams while still being a great partner to them.

Skills

Required:Software engineering managementDistributed systemsKubernetesTerraformAWS

Benefits

  • equity grant
  • comprehensive benefits package (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401k retirement plan
  • short & long term disability and life insurance
  • three weeks paid vacation
  • 12 paid holidays
  • unlimited sick time
  • paid parental leave
Last updated Sep 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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