[Remote] Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Infrastructure Engineering
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Athelas is a company focused on transforming healthcare through technology, and they are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for their Platform Infrastructure Engineering team. This role involves leading a senior team to build and maintain a secure, scalable platform that supports all engineering teams, enhancing the overall developer experience and operational excellence.ResponsibilitiesLead, coach, and grow the PIE team — a compact, senior group where your technical judgment and hands-on leadership directly shape outcomes. Hire and scale the team as platform scope growsOwn the platform roadmap across all pillars: cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering, developer experience, intra-service security, and architecture standardsDrive our multi-cloud strategy (AWS, GCP, Azure) and data center migrations, with everything defined as Infrastructure-as-CodeOwn the observability stack end to end — monitoring, alerting, tracing, on-call, and incident response — and establish SLO-driven reliability standards for service health across engineeringRaise the bar on developer experience: golden-path tooling, CI/CD pipelines, local development, and release workflows that make the right way the easy wayPartner with Security to embed cloud security posture management, RBAC, secrets management, and secure-by-default patterns into how every team buildsServe as a force multiplier for product engineering — run lightweight architecture reviews, set conventions that create operating leverage, and triage cross-team infrastructure requests with urgency and rigorPosition the platform for the AI era — infrastructure for LLM-powered products and AI-accelerated development across the engineering orgFoster a strong culture of ownership, curiosity, and collaborationSkills8-10+ years of experience developing software, with deep hands-on background in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering5+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and growing senior engineersHands-on expertise across the platform stack: networking and traffic management, compute orchestration (Kubernetes), datastores, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar), and observability toolingExpertise with modern cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure) and cloud-native architectures at scaleA track record of running platform teams as force multipliers — measured by the velocity, reliability, and adoption they create for other teams, not just the systems they shipProven technical leadership: you make architectural and strategic decisions that shape how an entire organization builds and deploys software, and you stay close enough to the code to make them wellExcellent communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and present technical trade-offs to executive leadershipA passion for healthcare innovation and making a meaningful impact on patient careExperience leading multi-cloud environments and data center/cloud migrationsExperience building platforms for LLM-powered products or AI-assisted engineering workflowsExperience in highly regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance) with a focus on compliance and security (HIPAA, SOC 2)Experience scaling engineering teams in high-growth environmentsCompany OverviewAthelas develops technology to monitor chronically ill patients in their homes. It is a sub-organization of Commure. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://athelas.com/.