Platform Engineering Manager
Winshuttle
As Platform Engineering Manager, you will lead a hands-on team focused on developer experience, productivity, and AI-powered tooling to help engineers ship high-quality software rapidly and safely. You will shape roadmaps for CI/CD, developer workflows, and self-serve tooling while promoting end-to-end ownership across cross-functional teams. The role centers on building a cohesive platform experience, leveraging AI capabilities to automate and scale engineering work. This is an opportunity to drive impactful improvements in how engineers build and operate services at scale.
Pay / Benefits- work from anywhere culture
- career development opportunities
- global team and diverse, distributed environment
- Lead a platform engineering team and drive roadmaps for CI/CD, developer workflows, and internal tooling
- Create a unified developer experience by integrating tools from across platform groups into a self-service interface with visibility into service health
- Define capacity plans and right-sized architecture templates enabling self-serve infrastructure decisions
- Develop AI-powered platform tooling and automation to streamline SRE/support workflows
- Collaborate with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security Engineering, and Product to prioritize investments with the greatest impact
- Coach engineers and technical leads to foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture with rapid iteration
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across strategic and technical contexts
- Guide adoption of AI tools for planning, execution, and team communication
- 1-2 years of direct people management or technical program management experience
- 3-5 years of hands-on software engineering experience building developer productivity tools or internal platforms
- Strong knowledge of Go and/or Python
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker and distributed systems
- Familiarity with capacity planning and right-sized architecture patterns
- Understanding of SRE practices and tooling
- Experience leading globally distributed teams and coordinating across time zones
- Excellent communication and ability to balance technical depth with leadership responsibilities
- Experience with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) and familiarity with large language model APIs
- strong communication
- cross-functional collaboration
- bias for shipping and learning
- Go
- Python
- Terraform
Reference: WJ-747_30175155