Second Nature · 2 days ago
Engineering Manager - Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $200K/yr
10+ years expSecond Nature is a company focused on improving the rental experience through its resident experience platform. They are seeking a strong Engineering Manager to lead their platform team, responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and security foundations to enable efficient software deployment.
B2BB2CCommercialDelivery ServiceE-CommerceHome ServicesProperty ManagementReal EstateSubscription Service
Responsibilities
Manage and mentor a high-performing platform engineering team (3-4 engineers)
Conduct 1:1s, set career development plans, and foster a culture of ownership and learning
Attract and retain top platform engineers
Guide the team through prioritization, incident response, and iterative improvement of systems and practices
Lead design and implementation of scalable CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, build and deployment strategies, authentication and authorization flow capabilities and developer tooling
Stay hands-on with cloud-native systems (ECS, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP) to ensure performance, security, and reliability
Drive improvements in observability—metrics, logging, tracing—to enhance visibility across systems
Champion security-first engineering across deployment workflows, identity, and access management
Enforce coding, monitoring, and reliability standards across environments
Partner with Product and Application Engineering leaders to ensure the platform supports product velocity and reliability
Collaborate with Security and Compliance to uphold best practices in infrastructure hardening and data protection
Communicate the value of platform initiatives clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Help define and evolve our cloud and DevOps strategy to meet the demands of scale and resilience
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software or platform engineering experience
3+ years managing a team of DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineers
Deep expertise in CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.), observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm)
Proven experience operating Kubernetes in production and building secure, scalable cloud environments
Strong understanding of modern security practices, incident management, and SRE principles
Clear, empathetic communicator with experience influencing across functions
Comfortable working 8–5 EST and collaborating across distributed teams
Preferred
Experience in developer platform architecture, self-service infrastructure, or PropTech / B2B2C SaaS platforms
Benefits
Health First: Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life Insurance; 401K Plan
Flexibility: Open PTO and sick days
Diverse, Inclusive Culture: We embrace employees from all backgrounds with openness and respect
Training: A supportive team to help you grow your career and unlock your full potential
Growth: The opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing startup that’s designing and developing an exciting category
Company
Second Nature
Second Nature is a consumer goods company that specializes in providing air filters.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Second Nature has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$35.92MKey Investors
One Better VenturesArsenal Growth EquityFidelis Capital
2020-03-25Series C· $16.4M
2019-07-01Series Unknown
2018-10-29Series B· $6.9M
Leadership Team
Thaddeus Tarkington
Co-Founder, CEO
Recent News
2025-11-03
2025-10-21
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