Platform Reliability Engineer Manager

About this Role
This is a unique opportunity to join a cutting-edge company that's changing the face of e-commerce. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll be responsible for leading a team of experienced engineers in developing and delivering high-quality software solutions. We're looking for someone with a strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for innovation.
Main Responsibilities:

• Lead the team in strategy development, planning and prioritization, balancing urgent and near-term needs with long-term goals
• Influence the Engineering organization to adopt patterns and practices developed by the team
• Handle vendor relationships, contract negotiations and renewal in the technology infrastructure space
• Manage operational on-call rotation and associated concerns
• Provide career guidance and mentorship to Engineers

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
• A strong technical background in scalable distributed systems, diagnosing, mitigating, and permanently addressing production issues at scale
• Experience leading engineers working on technology challenges in multiple domains: networking, public cloud infrastructure, caching and storage, scaling high-volume systems, observability/telemetry, root cause analysis, capacity vs. cost tradeoffs, etc.
• A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems
• A track record of leading teams to higher levels of contribution
• Capable and willing to write software for a couple of months as part of your onboarding
• Experience setting up and running on-call rotations
• Strong communication skills; ability to bring disparate groups of people to a shared understanding