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Engineering Manager – Product & Platform Delivery

Engineering ManagerEngineering ManagerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 51-200Since 2022H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

91 days ago

Salary

$175K - $250K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree6 yrs expEnglishCloudLinuxMicroservicesPythonTypeScriptGo

Job Description

Engineering Manager – Product & Platform Delivery

RunPod

• Own Feature Delivery for a Product Area: Lead a team of engineers responsible for shipping new functionality and iterating existing product surfaces. Deliver predictable, high-velocity outcomes that improve customer experience and business value. • Plan and Execute Roadmaps: Translate product strategy into clear technical plans, milestones, and success metrics. Identify tradeoffs early and manage scope, risk, and timelines. • Technical Leadership & Architecture: Drive pragmatic system design for product-layer services and workflows, ensuring scalability, performance, and consistency with Runpod’s platform. • Build and Grow a Strong Team: Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; set expectations, provide feedback, and create a culture of ownership, speed, and craft in a remote-first environment. • Quality & Reliability for Product Surfaces: Improve automated testing, release safety, observability for customer-facing systems, and regression prevention. Ensure on-call health for your team’s services. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner tightly with Product, Program management, Support, GTM, and Infrastructure counterparts. Coordinate dependencies cleanly while maintaining clear ownership. • Operational Excellence: Establish team rituals and delivery systems (sprints/kanban, retros, design reviews). Use data to improve cycle time, throughput, and feature adoption. • Customer-Driven Execution: Stay close to user needs by incorporating feedback, analytics, and support signals into prioritization and iteration.

Job Requirements

  • Engineering Management Experience: 2+ years managing a team of high performance software engineers, including ownership of roadmap delivery, hiring/firing, performance, and team culture.
  • High-Scale Product Delivery: 6+ years as a software engineer building and shipping products used by millions of users, with clear evidence of personal impact.
  • Systems-Level Technical Depth: Strong experience with Linux systems internals and/or cloud systems engineering - ideally building platform capabilities (orchestration, control planes, distributed services, networking or storage layers).
  • Backend or Full-Stack Proficiency: Comfortable reviewing and contributing to code in modern stacks; Go, Python, and/or TypeScript experience preferred.
  • Distributed/Cloud-Native Architecture: Solid understanding of microservices, APIs, eventing, data stores, and service-to-service communication patterns.
  • Delivery & Metrics Mindset: Experience running execution processes and using metrics like cycle time, throughput, adoption, and escape defects to improve team flow.
  • Remote-First Leadership: Proven ability to communicate clearly, align stakeholders asynchronously, and sustain momentum across time zones.
  • Successful completion of a background check.

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company- everyone on the team receives stock options — your impact drives our growth, and you share in the upside.
  • Generous medical, dental & vision plans — we cover 100% for all employees and partial for dependents.
  • Flexible PTO- take the time you need to recharge
  • Most roles are remote work first with an inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing slack as the main form of internal communication
  • Join a passionate team on the cutting edge of AI infrastructure — where culture, learning, and ownership are at the heart of how we scale.
  • $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend- We set you up for success from day one with gear and support to create your ideal workspace

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