Position : Engineering Manager - Platform
Experience : 8-13 Years
Location : Bangalore, India
Job Summary :
We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Engineering Manager - Platform to lead our Platforms Team. The ideal candidate will have 8-13 years of experience and a strong background in managing the full lifecycle of platform solutions for large-scale distributed systems. You will be responsible for defining the team's roadmap, ensuring the 24 / 7 / 365 reliability and performance of our services, and mentoring a high-performance engineering team. This role is crucial for maintaining and scaling the production systems that power all our user-facing services.
Key Responsibilities :
Platform Strategy & Execution :
- Lead the Platforms Team roadmap from conceptualization to delivery for current and next-generation tools and technologies.
- Manage release planning, execution, and deployment to ensure production and non-production environments run smoothly without performance or reliability issues.
- Provide technology thought leadership and influence new designs, architectures, and standards for large-scale distributed systems.
System Reliability & Automation :
Work with the team to design, build, and deliver software that ensures the reliability, availability, and performance of all services.Automate processes to stabilize production environments and prevent problem recurrence, acting as an advocate for automation principles and best practices.Engage in service capacity planning and forecasting, as well as software performance analysis and system tuning.Team Leadership & Mentorship :
Build and mentor a high-performance engineering team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.Practice and promote processes like blameless postmortems and proactive identification of potential outages to drive iterative improvement.Required Skills :
Technical Expertise :
8-13 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.Strong experience and understanding of Agile development concepts and Cloud environments, ideally with a development background.Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services and Containers.Problem-Solving & Leadership :
Proven ability to systematically approach problem-solving with a strong sense of accountability.Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.Preferred Skills :
Strong knowledge of Linux, Networking, and Cloud administration.Proven experience with microservices architecture.A holistic view of how systems relate to each other.Familiarity with DevOps principles and practices.(ref : hirist.tech)