Senior Engineering Manager, Platform
Senior Engineering Manager, Platform
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About Ethos
Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families. Our approach blends industry expertise technology and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones.
We leverage deep technology and data science to streamline the life insurance process making it more accessible and convenient. Using predictive analytics we are able to transform a traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes! Weve issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers ushering the industry into the modern age. Our full-stack technology platform is the backbone of family financial health.
We make getting life insurance easier faster and better for everyone.
Our investors include General Catalyst Sequoia Capital Accel Partners Google Ventures SoftBank and the investment vehicles of Jay-Z Kevin Durant Robert Downey Jr and others. This year we were named on CB Insights Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIns Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco. We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families!
About the Role:
We are looking for a hands-on engineering leader to head our foundational platform team. Youll champion platform-wide engineering standards ensure service reliability and guide core service architecture that powers the Ethos platform. This role blends deep technical ownershipsystem design performance optimizations security observabilitywith people leadership coaching senior engineers and scaling platform engineering excellence.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Lead a high-performing team of backend/full-stack engineers driving core infrastructure performance scalability and security.
- Define technical direction for foundational services and ensure engineering best practices: logging API contracts automated testing PII/security and observability.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering Product Infra and Security to define platform roadmaps and execute initiatives.
- Design and evolve tools like API governance frameworks and automated validation pipelines to boost developer productivity.
- Mentor and grow senior engineersproviding feedback career guidance architecture leadership and upsides.
- Participate in architecture reviews design critique and hands-on code contribution to uphold high engineering standards.
- Align team objectives with company OKRs track SLA/SLO metrics error budgets and reliability indicators.
Qualifications:
- 12 years of software engineering experience with at least 4 years leading platform or infrastructure-focused teams.
- Proven track record of architecting and supporting complex backend systems microservices and distributed architectures.
- Deep technical knowledge in service design API contracts database modeling caching scalability and incident prevention.
- Experience implementing engineering best practices: test automation logging documentation tooling observability integration PII/security policies.
- Practical experience with observability platforms CI/CD pipelines infrastructure-as-code stacks and security-first development.
- Collaborative leadership with strong communication skillsbalancing technical rigor with inclusive ego-free team coaching.
Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace.
We are an equal opportunity employer who values diversity and inclusion and look for applicants who understand embrace and thrive in a multicultural world. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.
To learn more about what information we collect and how it may be used please refer to ourCalifornia CandidatePrivacy Notice.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
