Manager, Engineering Platform Infrastructure
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Job Summary
Ignite Your Future:
As an Engineering Manager at QAD you will lead an agile engineering team responsible for designing building and delivering highquality software. You will combine handson technical understanding with people leadership helping engineers do their best work while delivering meaningful business outcomes.
Active use of AI-native development workflows Cursor Claude Code and CodeRabbit or equivalent is a baseline requirement not a nice-to-have. We treat AI augmentation as the standard engineering operating model. Leaders are expected to use these tools personally set norms for their teams and demonstrate that AI tooling raises the output of their entire squad. Candidates who view AI tools as optional or experimental are not the right fit for this organization.
The Mission: What Youll Be Building
You will guide a team building features and services across QADs adaptive cloudnative platform contributing directly to customerfacing capabilities and platform foundations.
Lead for the squad owning API Gateway authentication and the agent-to-tool interface layer.
Your Impact/ What you will be doing:
Deliver AuthN/AuthZ service OAuth2/OIDC implementation rate limiting and load balancing
Build the MCP Gateway that enables ERA agents to interface with ERP systems and external tools
Own service mesh configuration (Istio or equivalent) and platform on-call reliability
Manage a squad of 6 engineers including 1 P6 Principal Platform Engineer
Qualifications :
What we are looking for
6 years in platform or backend engineering with at least 2 years managing a squad
Expert in API Gateway design multi-tenant authentication and OAuth2/OIDC patterns
AWS/Terraform proficiency can review infrastructure code and challenge architecture decisions
Technically credible to a P6 Principal: you review their designs challenge assumptions earn respect
Experience with AI tool-use interfaces or MCP protocol
OpenTelemetry instrumentation and observability stack experience
The Mindset:
People-Centered Leader: Cares deeply about team health growth and inclusion.
Execution-Oriented: Focuses on delivering value consistently and reliably.
Technically Curious: Continuously builds technical depth to better support the team.
Accountable Owner: Takes responsibility for commitments and outcomes.
Collaborative: Works openly with Product QA and peer teams.
Why QAD
You will directly lead grow and mentor a high-impact agile team playing a key role in delivering features on our adaptive cloud-native platform. This is an opportunity to combine hands-on technical guidance with people leadership driving real-world product outcomes using modern cloud technologies and contributing to the future of intelligent manufacturing.
Additional Information :
Company Description:
QAD is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent adaptive platform that connects people processes and data into a single System of Action. With three core pillars Redzone (frontline empowerment) Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone) and Champion AI (Agentic AI for manufacturing) QAD Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace achieving measurable productivity resilience and growth in just 90 days.
QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QADs DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class.
About QAD:
QAD Redzone is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent adaptive platform that connects people processes and data into a single System of Action. With three core pillars Redzone (frontline empowerment) Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone) and Champion AI (Agentic AI for manufacturing) QAD Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace achieving measurable productivity resilience and growth in just 90 days.
QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QADs DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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