Manager, Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering is seeking an experienced engineering manager to lead a team responsible for building and evolving the internal platforms that power software development across the company. This role leads engineers delivering modern build systems, developer tooling, cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and AI-enabled engineering capabilities that improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and software delivery while partnering across the organization to accelerate engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

Technical & Platform Leadership

• Lead the evolution of the company's Platform Engineering capabilities to enable faster, more secure, and more reliable software delivery.
• Drive modernization of build systems, developer tooling, CI/CD, release automation, and Software Factory capabilities.
• Champion cloud-native architectures, automation, Infrastructure as Code, and engineering best practices.
• Evaluate and adopt AI-driven capabilities that improve developer productivity, software delivery, and engineering workflows.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance while empowering engineers to own implementation details.

People Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Platform Engineers.
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineering talent.
• Foster a collaborative, innovative, and accountable engineering culture.

Delivery & Execution

• Own delivery of strategic Platform Engineering initiatives.
• Balance platform investments, operational priorities, and technical debt.
• Identify risks, remove blockers, and communicate tradeoffs effectively.
• Define and measure platform success through adoption, reliability, developer productivity, automation, and software delivery outcomes.

Collaboration

• Build strong partnerships across Development, Quality Development, Security, Technical Services, Managed Services, and Product teams.
• Translate business objectives into engineering priorities and execution plans.
• Represent Platform Engineering in cross-functional planning and executive discussions.
• Champion Platform Engineering as a strategic partner that enables engineering productivity across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or DevOps.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience.
• Experience with several of the following: cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, build systems, developer tooling, automation, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives from planning through delivery.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or developer platforms.
• Experience leading modernization of build systems, software factories, or enterprise engineering platforms.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and software supply chain security.
• Experience working with AI-powered engineering tools and agentic coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Tabnine).
• Proven ability to evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies that improve software delivery, platform operations, and developer productivity.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category. InterSystems is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.

The estimated base compensation range for this role is: 133000 - 192000 USD