Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering
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Job Location:
San Ramon, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 188000 - 235000
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
WHY JOIN ALO
Mindful movement. Its at the core of why we do what we do at ALOits our calling. Because mindful movement in the studio leads to better living. It changes who yogis are off the mat making their lives and their communities better. Thats the real meaning of studio-to-street: taking the consciousness from practice on the mat and putting it into practice in life.
About the Role
We are seeking anEngineering Manager Platform Engineeringto lead teams responsible for building and operating thecore platforms cloud infrastructure and developer toolingthat power a high-scale high-availability eCommerce ecosystem.
This role combinestechnical leadership people management and cross-functional collaboration. You will help shape platform strategy guide architectural decisions and enable engineering teams to deliver reliable systems safely and efficiently. While primarily a leadership role this position valueshands-on technical engagementto stay close to the systems and challenges teams face.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the platform engineering strategy setting technical direction and multi-quarter roadmaps aligned with product and business priorities.
- Lead cloud and infrastructure engineering including compute networking storage and infrastructure as code with a focus on scalability reliability security and cost awareness.
- Guide platform architecture and critical technical decisions ensuring systems are resilient maintainable and capable of supporting future growth.
- Own DevOps and CI/CD practices improving build test deployment and release workflows through automation and continuous improvement.
- Anticipate and address systemic risks proactively identifying and resolving platform issues before they impact reliability performance or security.
- Build and maintain shared platforms and developer tooling enabling application teams to safely operate and evolve systems at scale.
- Strengthen observability and operational practices including monitoring logging alerting and incident response to support operational readiness.
- Partner closely with product architecture security and application teams aligning priorities managing tradeoffs and communicating risks and dependencies.
- Lead and develop cross platform engineering teams providing mentorship clear priorities and an inclusive collaborative environment that supports growth and delivery.
- Participate in hiring and team development helping build and sustain a strong engineering culture.
Qualifications
- 10 Years of professional experience in software engineering with a focus onplatform infrastructure or DevOps
- 3 years of experience in anengineering management or technical leadership role
- 7 years of experience and knowledge ofcloud platforms(AWS GCP Azure or similar)
- Experience withdistributed systems containerization orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code
- Experience owning or supportingCI/CD pipelines and automation
- Ability to lead architectural discussions and makedata-informed technical decisions
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating across teams
Preferred
- Experience supportinghigh-scale or consumer-facing platforms
- Background inJava/JVM-based systemsand cloud-native architectures
- Experience withmulti-region or multi-cloudenvironments
- Familiarity withopen-source technologies and ecosystems
- Experience building or operatinginternal platforms or developer experience tooling
- Knowledge ofobservability reliability and service ownership practices
The base salary range for this position is $188000-$235000 per year which represents the current range for the base salary for this exempt position. Please note that actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location experience and performance. As such on occasion and when applicable there is the possibility that the final agreed-upon base salary may be outside of the upper end of the range. Please also note the range listed is just one component of the companys total rewards package for exempt employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses long term incentives a PTO policy and many other progressive benefits.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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