Engineering Manager, Platform
Motive — San Francisco, United States
- Company: Motive
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Salary: $229k - $315k
- Work model: On-site
- Category: Engineering
- Experience: Mid (3-5yr)
- Timezone: US timezones
- Posted: 2026-07-24
Tags: Engineering Manager, full-time, Actively Hiring, B2b, Company Stage, Top Investors
Job description
About the Role:
We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader who will lead the Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering. You will be responsible for managing and mentoring a multi-functional team across SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, and Database Engineering. You will own our cloud platform, run infrastructure as a product, and drive enterprise-grade reliability for mission‑critical systems. As an engineering leader you’ll be be called on to lead during critical moments and operate with executives of the company
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform systems used across the company
- Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve developer velocity, system reliability, and product leverage
- Partner closely with product and engineering leaders to evolve the platform as a product, balancing long-term architecture with near-term business needs
- Take ambiguous, high-impact problem areas (e.g., system scalability, reliability, platform abstractions) and turn them into clear execution plans
- Drive alignment across multiple teams working on complex, interdependent systems including internal platforms, infrastructure as well as cloud governance.
- Raise the bar on engineering quality, operational excellence, and execution across the platform organization
What We’re Looking For:
- 10+ years of experience as an engineering leader, deep expertise in running cloud platforms at scale, strong sense for systems architecture.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Ability to collaborate and work effectively cross functionally with a strong sense of ownership
- Experience managing teams of engineers and being responsible for multiple projects concurrently
- Very strong domain knowledge in cloud infrastructure, observability
- Experience in interfacing with vendors, partners and cost governance
- Experience and strong understanding of Data and ML infrastructure.
- Experience driving processes and programs to raise the bar and engineering excellence