Manager, Platform Engineering - Developer Experience

What You'll Do

• The Manager, Platform Engineering - Developer Experience leads a product-focused pod within Platform Engineering, building tooling and workflows on top of the existing internal platform to enable developer experience across the organization.
• This role combines engineering leadership with product ownership.
• The ideal candidate has a strong Developer or DevOps background and hands-on experience with IDP portals such as Backstage.

Hiring Manager Notes

• They want to build an Internal Developer portal for their Developer experience pod within Platform Engineering Platform (4 pods Infra as a code, CI/CD, Platform tools and Developer experience).
• The Developer portal will be for building developer tooling and self-service workflows on top of their existing platform infrastructure.
• This is not a regular DevOps/Cloud Manager position.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Acts as Product Owner: defines the DevX roadmap, manages the backlog, and leads sprint planning and reviews
• Engages engineering teams as internal customers to gather requirements and drive adoption of developer tooling
• Sponsors code reviews and drives continuous improvement efforts
• Participates in creation and review of user stories, providing input on effort estimation and architecture/design
• Advocates for Agile best practices across the SDLC
• Conducts proofs of concept using emerging developer experience technologies
• Performs risk analyses and recommends quality improvements
• Oversees onboarding and ongoing team training

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Manage the Developer Experience pod within Platform Engineering

Qualifications

• Experience with Agile methodologies, including as a Product Owner
• Able to treat a platform as a product with roadmaps, backlogs, and user research
• Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Self-starter and team player collaborative and focused on collective success

Technical Skills

• Hands-on experience with Internal Developer Portals such as Backstage plugin development, service catalog configuration, and software templates
• Experience building developer tooling and self-service workflows on top of existing platform infrastructure
• Strong GitOps experience managing infrastructure and application delivery through Git-based workflows
• Experience in DevOps tooling such as: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Artifactory and CI/CD pipeline design
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and Helm
• Experience with AWS foundational services: VPCs, Security Groups, EC2, RDS, S3, KMS, IAM, and AWS CLI
• Development experience in Node.js, TypeScript, React or Python (preferred)
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk (preferred)

Education and/or Experience

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure/tooling disciplines
• 3+ years in an engineering leadership or management role

Certificates or Licenses

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer (preferred)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent (preferred)
• Project/program management certification (preferred)