Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RoadRunner is dedicated to accelerating the road to Zero Waste™ through innovative technology and sustainable waste operations. They are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Platform Engineering Manager to lead the platform engineering team in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure that supports product development. The role emphasizes strong technical skills in platform engineering and proven leadership abilities to mentor high-performing teams.
Responsibilities
- Manage, lead & mentor our Platform Engineers
- Design, build, manage and monitor the infrastructure of RoadRunner technology
- Collaborate with product and engineering managers to define technical roadmaps and help guide our technology north star
- Maintain current awareness of marketplace trends, both technical and process improvements
Skills
- 7+ years professional experience in Platform engineering, Dev(Sec)Ops or related field of engineering
- 3+ years experience as an engineering manager or team lead
- Strong technical background in platform engineering, with hands-on experience in relevant or similar technologies (AWS services and ecosystem, Terraform, Docker, DataDog)
- Experience building and managing web application infrastructure at scale
- Experience creating technical scopes, technical requirements documents and technical roadmaps
- The ability to communicate technical concepts and decisions to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience overseeing and implementing technical processes such as pull request reviews, code coverage, continuous integration and deployment, and cloud platform management
- The ability to debug complex technical issues
- Passionate about business results and quality, with a strong sense of accountability, metrics and ownership
- Strategic thinker with the ability to grasp the tactical details
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, is dynamic, and can capture a group's interest and maintain it as well as the ability to facilitate meetings with diverse and sometimes conflicting points of view
- Ability to manage multiple projects, multi-task, and effectively prioritize assignments with minimal supervision
- Ability to influence and collaborate at all levels and across all functions of the organization
- Proven ability to organize/manage multiple priorities coupled with the flexibility to quickly adapt to ever changing business needs
- Strong analytical and problem solving. Solid decision making in a timely manner
- Enthusiasm for our sustainability driven mission
- Preferred experience in data engineering and application architecture
- Preferred ML Ops experience, or otherwise willing to learn
- Preferred experience hiring and growing an engineering team
Benefits
- Annual bonus
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