The Role
As a Senior Engineering Manager in Platform Engineering, you will lead high-performing teams that build and evolve the core infrastructure, tooling, and developer experience used across the organization. You’ll play a strategic role in shaping the vision and direction of our internal platforms, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and user-centric. While you won’t be directly involved in implementation, you’ll bring a strong understanding of technical concepts to support sound decision-making, ask the right questions, and guide your teams through architectural and operational considerations. This role blends people management and cross-functional collaboration to drive engineering excellence, operational maturity, and a culture of continuous improvement. You’ll be key in enabling product teams to ship faster, more securely, and with greater confidence.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Leading and supporting platform engineering teams focused on infrastructure, developer tooling, and internal platform capabilities.
* Setting clear goals and tracking progress with key performance indicators (KPIs) related to platform reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
* Leading the recruitment and onboarding of engineering talent to form high-performing teams with aligned technical expertise and strategic focus.
* Fostering a collaborative team culture and mentoring engineering managers and engineers to support continuous development and long-term growth.
* Collaborating across teams to align on priorities, manage dependencies, and resolve blockers, ensuring technical solutions are in sync with the broader engineering objectives and business strategy.
* Driving strategic initiatives that improve platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience, while measuring success through defined metrics.
* Working cross-functionally to align priorities, manage dependencies, and remove blockers - ensuring technical solutions align with broader engineering and business strategy.
* Championing engineering best practices, including automation, observability, and secure-by-default approaches.
* Representing your teams in planning and leadership forums, ensuring visibility, alignment, and effective communication.
What You’ll Bring
* Proven experience leading platform engineering (or similar) teams focused on infrastructure, developer tooling, and platform capabilities.
* Proven ability to manage high levels of complexity, successfully leading multiple major workstreams in parallel to drive business outcomes and deliver exceptional value.
* Strong understanding of scalable, reliable systems and a track record of driving improvements in developer experience and operational efficiency.
* Expertise in managing engineering talent, from hiring and onboarding to mentoring and performance management.
* Ability to define, implement, and track SLOs to measure and ensure platform reliability, scalability and operational effectiveness.
* Deep collaboration skills, with experience working cross-functionally with product, security, and other teams to drive alignment and remove blockers.
* A strategic mindset, with the ability to align technical solutions with broader business goals and engineering objectives.
* Familiarity with engineering best practices, including automation, observability, and secure-by-default approaches.
* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and drive change at all levels of the organization.
* A passion for building a healthy, inclusive, and high-performing team culture focused on continuous improvement and ownership.
A Sneak Peek Into Our Tech Stack
* AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Vault, GitHub Actions, Datadog and PagerDuty
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So ... are you in?
Equal opportunities
At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply.
We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.
Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.
If you need any adjustments to apply for the position and to ensure this role aligns with your needs, please send an email toaccommodations@blip.pt.
We will only respond to inquiries related to disabilities.
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