Senior Engineering Manager - IT Infrastructure

About Ethos :

Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families.

Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones.

We leverage deep technology and data science to streamline the life insurance process, making it more accessible and convenient.

Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes! Weve issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers, ushering the industry into the modern age.

Our full-stack technology platform is the backbone of family financial health.

We make getting life insurance easier, faster and better for everyone.

Our investors include General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, SoftBank, and the investment vehicles of Jay-Z, Kevin Durant, Robert Downey Jr and others.

This year, we were named on CB Insights' Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIn's Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco.

We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families!.

About The Role :

We are looking for a hands-on engineering leader to head our foundational platform team.

Youll champion platform-wide engineering standards, ensure service reliability, and guide core service architecture that powers the Ethos platform.

This role blends deep technical ownership - system design, performance optimizations, security, observability - with people leadership, coaching senior engineers, and scaling platform engineering excellence.

Roles & Responsibilities :

• Lead a high-performing team of backend / full-stack engineers driving core infrastructure, performance, scalability, and security.
• Define technical direction for foundational services and ensure engineering best practices : logging, API contracts, automated testing, PII / security, and observability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Infra, and Security to define platform roadmaps and execute initiatives.
• Design and evolve tools like API governance frameworks and automated validation pipelines to boost developer productivity.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers - providing feedback, career guidance, architecture leadership, and upsides.
• Participate in architecture reviews, design critique, and hands-on code contribution to uphold high engineering standards.
• Align team objectives with company OKRs, track SLA / SLO metrics, error budgets, and reliability indicators.

Qualifications :

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