Manager II, Engineering, Kubernetes Platform

What you'll do

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for Kubernetes platform infrastructure and supporting systems.
• Establish the team’s 12-month strategy, roadmap, and success measures.
• Improve the reliability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency of the platform.
• Drive architecture and technical decisions while building context quickly in new areas.
• Build automation, standard configurations, and self-service paths to reduce manual work.
• Set high standards for production operations, including observability, on-call, and incident response.
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while sustaining an inclusive and accountable team.
• Use AI to accelerate analysis, investigations, and documentation while ensuring quality through verification.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience managing engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, cloud systems, or distributed systems.
• Experience managing teams that build or operate large-scale cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, or shared compute platforms.
• Experience setting a multi-quarter technical strategy and delivering through senior engineers.
• Technical experience in public cloud, highly available distributed systems, Kubernetes, and production operations.
• Experience leading cross-functional infrastructure programs and communicating reliability, security, cost, and capacity tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve work speed and quality while maintaining high integrity and accountability.
• Experience with managed Kubernetes services (EKS or GKE), infrastructure as code, or GPU/ML infrastructure (preferred).