[Hiring] Platform Engineering Manager @Honor

Role Description

We're looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Platform Engineering, a small team of highly senior (Staff+) engineers who build and operate the infrastructure and core services powering Honor's Care Platform, including:

• Cloud infrastructure
• CI/CD and developer tooling
• Reliability and operations
• Security foundations
• Shared architecture

This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll own Platform's strategic roadmap and day-to-day execution, while staying technical enough to:

• Set direction
• Challenge your engineers' thinking
• Know when to go deep yourself versus lean on their expertise

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software/platform engineering experience
• At least 3+ years directly managing engineers at Senior or Staff level
• Experience in a platform, infrastructure, or SRE organization at a product-centric company
• Hands-on depth to be technically credible with Staff+ engineers
• Comfortable reasoning about cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, Terraform, or similar)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes-based production systems
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar)
• Experience with service-to-service architecture

Requirements

• A track record of creating leverage from highly autonomous senior engineers
• Experience translating company and engineering priorities into a coherent platform roadmap
• Ability to balance planned roadmap work against KTLO, incidents, and unplanned operational demand
• Comfortable partnering with senior technical ICs as complementary leaders
• Strong written and verbal communication tailored to a variety of audiences
• A strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession
• Experience managing a newly-formed or recently-restructured team
• Familiarity with technology startup challenges
• First-hand experience defining or evolving the boundary between a platform team and domain teams
• Knowledge of infrastructure security review and compliance frameworks

Benefits

• Remote-first work model lets you work from anywhere in the U.S.
• Competitive salary
• Equity in the company
• Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Employer-matched 401(k)
• Flexible PTO (manager approval)
• Diverse environment, with women making up more than half of the company and half of the management team
• Monthly stipend to offset home office expenses