[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Slice

Role Description

Slice’s DevEx Platform teams build and evolve the internal developer platform, GitOps workflows, Kubernetes infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling that power engineering across Slice. We are looking for a highly skilled Engineering Manager to lead the DevEx team, who can help raise the bar for reliability, security, and operational excellence. Management is key; your role is to create the conditions where platform engineers build reusable, high-impact systems that make every engineer at Slice more productive.

• Own developer and business outcomes
• Partner with engineering leadership to identify developer friction and platform opportunities
• Measure success by improved deployment velocity, system reliability, platform adoption, and developer productivity
• Lead technical direction
• Guide architecture and technical strategy across our Internal Developer Platform, deployment workflows, and cloud infrastructure
• Help the team build reusable patterns, self-service tooling, and strong guardrails
• Comfortable leading teams working with:
• Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and cloud-native architecture
• ArgoCD & GitOps principles for safe, scalable application delivery
• Python for internal tooling, automation, and infrastructure management
• GitHub Actions & CI/CD pipeline automation
• Network architecture, DNS, Cloudflare
• Datadog (dashboards, metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) and Terraform
• Generative AI tools to develop and deploy applications, including agentic applications/services using LLM APIs
• Build a highly effective team
• Give platform engineers context, clear decision boundaries, and meaningful ownership
• Encourage an automation-first mindset, reducing toil and creating scalable self-service capabilities
• Raise execution standards
• Help the team deliver platform improvements frequently and safely
• Standardize workflows, improve observability, and embed operational excellence into everyday development
• Develop exceptional people
• Hire, coach, and retain outstanding platform and software engineers
• Provide meaningful ownership, direct feedback, and growth opportunities
• Lead across Slice
• Partner closely with engineering teams to understand pain points and drive platform adoption

Qualifications

• Experience managing high-performing platform engineering teams
• Skilled at project planning/tracking and creation of team roadmaps
• Technical expertise across Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Python automation, AWS, Terraform, and Datadog
• Proven track record of improving developer experience, deployment reliability, and engineering effectiveness
• A platform mindset: thinking in reusable systems, self-service tooling, and scalable guardrails rather than one-off fixes
• Clear, direct communication across both technical platform teams and product engineering stakeholders

Requirements

• Deployments become faster, safer, and more reliable across Slice
• Engineers spend less time wrestling with infrastructure and cognitive friction
• Platform capabilities are easily discovered and widely adopted
• High-performing engineers on your team are growing and thriving
• Cross-functional partners trust your team to solve critical developer platform challenges

The Hiring Process

• Application
• 30-minute introductory conversation
• 60-minute conversation with department management
• 60-minute technical interview with future peers and team members
• Offer

Benefits

• At Slice we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and supportive workplace
• Our core values – We’re doers, Nail the basics, Better together, We’re Pan Atlantic, Build in Public and It’s a pizza Party - guide everything we do, innovate, learn and grow