Senior Engineering Manager, Platform
Ethos LifeRemotely
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Job Description
📋 Description
- Own the outcomes for your domain end to end — the strategy, the technical direction, and the
- Hire, grow, and retain strong engineers and leads, and mentor the team through design and
- Partner with Product and Staff Engineers to build the technical roadmap and run quarterly planning.
- Own cross-team architectural decisions and the internal standards other teams build on: service
- Set the engineering quality bar — system reliability, test coverage, incident response SLAs, and
- Drive operational excellence: observability, runbook quality, postmortem culture, and the reduction
🎯 Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering management experience in high-growth organizations, including managing
- A track record of building high-performing teams and developing engineers to the next level.
- Experience managing platform teams, not just product feature teams.
- Strong written communication — clear in PRDs, design docs, postmortems, and upward reporting.
- Champions engineering quality: design patterns, code reviews, and disciplined unit, integration
- A self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity and able to make trade-off decisions at speed without
🎁 Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Health insurance
- Opportunity to shape platform at scale
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