Sr. Manager, Engineering Configuration Platform Team (Infrastructure)

TL;DR

Sr. Manager, Engineering Configuration Platform Team (Infrastructure): Leading the team responsible for configuration and feature flag systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP with an accent on distributed systems reliability and release safety. Focus on reducing incident blast radius, improving MTTR, and evolving the developer experience for safe change delivery.

Location: Bellevue, Washington

Salary: $222,000 — $300,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a data and AI company that provides a Data Intelligence Platform to unify data, analytics, and AI for over 10,000 organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead a team that shapes how thousands of engineers ship, ramp, and roll back changes daily.
• Reduce customer-impacting incidents through stronger guardrails, validation, and graduated rollout patterns.
• Drive company-wide MTTR reduction via health-mediated releases, auto-rollback, and zero-downtime configuration delivery.
• Evolve the Configuration Platform UX into a frictionless set of UI, CLI, and agentic surfaces.
• Grow the organization to attract and retain Staff and Principal level engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing backend, infrastructure, or platform teams of 7 to 15 engineers.
• Strong background in distributed systems, including Java/Scala, RPC, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud/multi-region deployments.
• Hands-on leadership approach, remaining close to the code and leading design reviews.
• Operational experience owning high-availability platforms with on-call and incident response responsibilities.
• BS in Computer Science (Masters or PhD preferred).
• Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment for U.S. employees.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to solve the world's toughest problems using the world's best data and AI infrastructure.
• Customer-obsessed culture focused on tackling high-scale technical challenges.
• Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to the employee's region.
• Strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity.