Employer description & source details
Tide is hiring for a proven Engineering Manager to lead the team. Lead: Hire, coach, and set clear goals for a team of engineers. Plan: Develop a roadmap for architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, and capacity for our infrastructure, databases, and Kubernetes clusters. Protect: Make sure our platforms meet their targets for availability and security. Empower: Reduce the time that product engineers need to deploy and run services on the platform. Control cost: Help product engineering teams make cost-efficient choices for services that run on our platform. Collaborate: Share team context and build cross-team relationships. Balance priorities: Weigh technical decisions against team and company goals. Measure: Track team productivity with metrics such as DORA and SPACE, and drive measurable improvement. You are an engineering leader who stays technically hands-on. You know that the biggest challenges need effective delegation and team empowerment. 10+ years of experience in distributed computing 3+ years in engineering leadership roles A degree in Computer Science or a related field Detailed knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, in a regulated environment that requires security guardrails Experience running Kubernetes in production with GitOps (ArgoCD preferred) An understanding of how to use AI tools such as Claude, and how to help your engineers and customers use them efficiently Excellent written and verbal communication skills Experience managing stakeholders across teams and functions Platform engineering experience that abstracts Kubernetes complexity into a stable internal product Experience creating and maintaining Kubernetes operators Infrastructure as code: Terraform and Terragrunt manage all platform infrastructure Deployments: ArgoCD with a GitOps approach Custom infra
Extracted skills: python, java, go, aws, gcp, kubernetes, terraform, security