Platform Engineering Manager

TL;DR

Platform Engineering Manager (Robotics/IoT): Lead and develop a growing team of platform engineers responsible for internal tooling, infrastructure, data pipelines powering global fleet of autonomous robots with an accent on system architecture, observability, and multi-stack management. Focus on coaching engineers across career stages, reviewing architectural decisions, and aligning technical work with business priorities in fast-paced environments.

Location: Wallingford, Oxfordshire (Hybrid) - circa one day per week onsite, commutable from London.

Company

Transforming warehousing and logistics industry through data intelligence and autonomous robots.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of 5–15 platform engineers on internal tooling, infrastructure, data pipelines, and special projects.
• Review and challenge system architecture decisions, focusing on observability, monitoring, and alerting at scale.
• Coach engineers at various career stages and manage teams across multiple technology stacks including Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, AWS.
• Communicate technical work in business terms, manage stakeholders, and navigate competing priorities.
• Operate in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with pragmatic decision-making and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• Proven experience as Engineering Manager, Tech Lead Manager or similar in high-growth tech company with software/DevOps teams.
• Strong background in platform engineering, infrastructure, embedded systems or complex technical domains.
• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus) and robotics/IoT/hardware-adjacent software desirable.
• Ability to manage multiple stacks: Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, AWS, CI/CD.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and coaching skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in robotics, startup/scale-up environments, or B2B SaaS.

Culture & Benefits

• Four Operating Principles: Performance, Impact, Commitment, One team.
• Private healthcare via Bupa, life insurance, income protection, pension (5% employer).
• Employee Assistance Programme for mental wellbeing, financial and legal support.
• 25 holidays per year, full meals onsite, fun team events and snacks.