Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

First American
Santa Ana, CA
Category Engineering
Job Description
Role Overview

Join a team that puts its People First! As the Senior Manager of Platform Engineering, you will build and lead a team of skilled cloud and platform engineers to enhance and operate our multi-cloud environment using modern tools, techniques, and cloud-native services.

What You Will Do

Provide technical leadership to guide a team of engineers in designing, delivering, and supporting a robust set of APIs and back-end services. Collaborate with product management, software engineering, platform, and other cross-functional teams and leaders to iteratively design, develop, and validate outcome-driven technology solutions.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will be a great fit if you have strong technical expertise, a product mindset, and takes a hands-on approach to driving engineering best practices. You will also be able to mentor, coach, train, and support your team and others in their careers and personal growth.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years managing cloud and platform engineering teams in a fast-paced environment
  • 6+ years of building HA and DR solutions in one or more of Azure, AWS, and GCP
  • Proven track record of delivering fit-for-purpose, technical solutions balancing complexity, performance, and maintainability
  • Leadership skills to mobilize and motivate a high-functioning engineering team
  • Passion, perspective, and empathy for unblocking software engineering teams working to achieve their goals
  • Ability to architect and design robust, high-scale systems and challenge engineers to think bigger and more generically in developing solutions
  • Knowledge of software engineering practices for the entire software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Experience mentoring engineers at various levels and supporting their career growth
  • An outcome-oriented approach using metrics and data to understand development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, test coverage, etc.) to inform areas for continuous improvement
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills, with strong relationship, collaboration, and organization skills

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • 401k
  • PTO/paid sick leave
  • employee stock purchase plan
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