# Engineering Manager, Platform

**Company**: Gamma
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $250K - $350K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2294120

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gamma/1bcffe36-46d8-42db-a891-35ed8d5159f6
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_baad2681-2b6

## Description

### About the role

You'll lead Gamma's Platform organisation as we scale to serve hundreds of millions of users. This means overseeing the critical systems that power everything: infrastructure, security, identity, and the foundational platforms that enable product teams to move fast while maintaining world-class reliability and performance.

You'll manage a team of 15–20 engineers across multiple domains, balancing technical vision with people leadership.

### What you'll do

- Lead and mentor a team of 15–20 platform engineers across infrastructure, identity, security, and app platform domains

- Guide senior and staff engineers in making strategic technical decisions about architecture, scalability, security, and reliability

- Own the technical roadmap for platform systems including AWS infrastructure, identity and authentication, security tooling, and developer platform capabilities

- Establish operational excellence practices including incident response, on-call rotations, SLAs, and system observability

- Champion security-first thinking and compliance requirements (SOC 2, GDPR) across the engineering organisation

- Drive platform engineering hiring and onboarding, collaborating with recruiting and leadership to build world-class teams

### What you'll bring

- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, backend systems, or security, with deep proficiency in AWS, distributed systems, and authentication systems

- 4+ years managing and developing engineering teams at high-growth SaaS companies, with experience leading across multiple technical domains or managing managers

- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, identity and authentication systems, security engineering, and observability, with strong knowledge of compliance frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001

- Demonstrated track record delivering complex infrastructure migrations, security initiatives, and platform improvements while maintaining reliability

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex infrastructure and security concepts for product teams and leadership

### Compensation range

The base salary for this full-time position, which spans multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $250K - $350K plus benefits & equity.

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- distributed systems
- authentication systems
- cloud infrastructure
- identity and authentication systems
- security engineering
- observability
- compliance frameworks
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001