IT & Software

Platform Engineering Manager

Winshuttle

Remote · Nationwide · United Kingdom

Overview

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
Responsibilities
  • 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
Key requirements
  • 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_31168829

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