Senior Engineering Manager, Platform
Senior Engineering Manager, Platform
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Job Description
At Podium our mission is to arm every local business with a complete platform and outcome-driven AI employees that convert leads into real paying customers. Every day millions of workers use our AI lead conversion and communication platform to help them get more leads and make more money.
Our work and focus on helping local businesses thrive has been recognized across the industry including Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups Forbes Cloud 100 the Inc. 5000 and Fast Companys Worlds Most Innovative Companies.
At Podium we believe in fostering a culture that thrives on hiring and developing exceptional talent. Our operating principles serve as a compass guiding daily behavior and decision-making and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you resonate with our operating principles and are energized by our mission Podium will be a great place for you!
About Podium
At Podium our mission is to arm every local business with a complete platform and outcome-driven AI employees that convert leads into real paying customers. Every day millions of workers use our AI lead conversion and communication platform to help them get more leads and make more money.
Our work and focus on helping local businesses thrive has been recognized across the industry including Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups Forbes Cloud 100 the Inc. 5000 and Fast Companys Worlds Most Innovative Companies.
At Podium we believe in fostering a culture that thrives on hiring and developing exceptional talent. Our operating principles guide how we work make decisions and build great products. If youre energized by our mission and values Podium is the place for you.
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Platform Services group the backbone of Podiums infrastructure and shared services. This team is responsible for building and scaling the foundational platforms and services that empower all product teams to deliver quickly safely and at scale. This is a high-impact role where you will drive the strategy and execution for the platforms that underpin Podiums growth and product innovation.
What Youll Do
- Lead & Scale Platform Teams Manage and grow engineering teams focused on core platform components such as developer tooling infrastructure abstraction and shared services.
- Drive Platform Reliability & Scalability Ensure systems are highly available observable secure and cost-effective. Promote best practices around SLAs SLOs and incident response.
- Empower Product Engineering Collaborate with product engineering teams to deliver platform capabilities that accelerate their velocity reduce duplication and unlock innovation.
- Technical Strategy & Roadmap Define and execute the roadmap for platform services in collaboration with infrastructure and product stakeholders.
- Mentor & Develop Talent Hire mentor and grow engineers and engineering managers to build a world-class team and strong technical culture.
- Champion Developer Experience Lead efforts to improve the internal developer platform with emphasis on AI CI/CD pipelines service reliability and build/run/test workflows.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration Work with Security SRE Product and GTM partners to align platform efforts with business needs.
What Were Looking For
- 3 years of engineering management experience ideally leading platform or infrastructure teams.
- Deep technical expertise in cloud-native systems distributed architecture developer tooling or platform-as-a-service.
- Demonstrated success in scaling internal platforms and improving developer productivity.
- Proven ability to lead high-performing teams through complex challenges in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset. You can align technical roadmaps with business outcomes.
- Experience with hiring mentoring and developing engineering talent.
- Bonus: Experience with Kubernetes service mesh observability platforms or internal developer portals.
BENEFITS
- Open and transparent culture
- Life insurance long and short-term disability coverage
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Generous vacation time plus three 4-day summer holiday weekends
- Excellent medical dental and vision benefits
- 401k Plan with company matching
- Bi-annual swag drops with cool Podium gear and apparel
- A stellar HQ (Utah) gym with local professional coaches and classes offered
- Onsite HQ (Utah) child care center subsidized for employees
Podium is an equal opportunity employer. Podium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion gender national origin sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability genetic information marital status or veteran status.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
