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EasyPost · 4 weeks ago

Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Infrastructure)

United States

Contract

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$187K/yr - $245K/yr

12+ years exp

EasyPost is a rapidly growing company focused on simplifying shipping for businesses. They are seeking a highly skilled Engineering Manager to lead their Platform Engineering Team, responsible for designing and building shared platforms and internal tooling to enhance development efficiency and system reliability.

DeliveryE-CommerceLogisticsShipping

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead and manage the Platform Engineering team, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to engineers across various levels

Design, build, and evangelize Golden Paths and Service Scaffolding to reduce friction across the development lifecycle

Identify high-friction or high-risk engineering workflows and design scalable, user-friendly platforms and tooling to improve them

Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of Shared DB Platforms, ensuring optimal performance, integrity, and security across the organization

Lead efforts to design, manage, and optimize multi-cloud platforms using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, driving cost-efficiency and security

Oversee the development, integration, and adoption of Observability Frameworks (metrics, tracing, logs)

Lead the development and implementation of robust Reliability Practices for the platform, including backup, recovery, capacity planning, and disaster recovery strategies

Define and track meaningful metrics to evaluate developer experience, platform health, and team productivity — using data to inform what you build and how it evolves

Collaborate with development, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure resilient, secure, and scalable services, and provide consulting on platform patterns like API Gateways and Service Meshes

Contribute to the standardization and documentation of engineering practices across teams

Qualification

Platform EngineeringInfrastructure-as-CodeMulti-cloud platformsObservability FrameworksDatabase technologiesContainerization toolsProgramming languagesCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsProblem-solving skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

12+ years of related experience in software or platform engineering, with a focus on internal tools, automation, or developer productivity

Experience building and scaling developer platforms or internal tooling in fast-moving engineering environments

Strong understanding of modern development practices — including Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment automation

Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and config management (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), in cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP

Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

Familiarity with the GitHub toolchain, including GitHub Actions, pull request workflows, and GitHub-integrated CI/CD

Experience integrating deployment tooling with systems like FluxCD or other GitOps-based platforms

Proficiency in programming languages such as Ruby, Python, Go, or Rust, as well as comfort with scripting and automation tasks

Familiarity with a variety of database technologies (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, Redis) and cloud-based database platforms (e.g., RDS, Aurora, Keyspaces, CloudSQL, BigTable)

Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., ELK, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Vector, Tempo, Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor)

Demonstrated ability to use metrics and feedback loops to drive continuous improvement in platform development

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an emphasis on clarity, empathy, and documentation