Senior Engineering Manager

Role Description

First American is seeking candidates for a leadership role in Platform Engineering. An ideal candidate has strong technical expertise, a product mindset, and takes a hands-on approach to driving engineering best practices. As the Senior Manager of Platform Engineering, you will build and lead a team of skilled cloud and platform engineers to enhance and operate our multi-cloud environment using modern tools, techniques, and cloud-native services.

Remote Work Welcome

What You’ll Do:

• Technical Leadership: Provide vision and technical leadership to guide a team of engineers in designing, delivering, and supporting a robust set of APIs and back-end services. Implement modern, world-class, secure engineering practices that are scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant.
• Collaborate/Partner: Collaborate with product management, software engineering, platform, and other cross-functional teams to iteratively design, develop, and validate outcome-driven technology solutions.
• People Leadership & Development: Mentor, coach, train, and support your team and others in their careers and personal growth.
• Quality & Security Focused: Drive the implementation of functionally appropriate and technically sound solutions that meet all quality & security standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead the team in achieving ambitious goals, providing regular feedback, and driving continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years managing cloud and platform engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
• 6+ years of building HA and DR solutions in one or more of Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Proven track record of delivering fit-for-purpose, technical solutions balancing complexity, performance, and maintainability.
• Leadership skills to mobilize and motivate a high-functioning engineering team.
• Passion, perspective, and empathy for unblocking software engineering teams working to achieve their goals.
• A balanced approach between Platform Engineering principles and modern Infrastructure Operations.
• Ability to architect and design robust, high-scale systems and challenge engineers to think bigger and more generically in developing solutions.
• Ability to mentor cloud and platform engineers to maintain architectural vision and software quality.
• Knowledge of software engineering practices for the entire software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience mentoring engineers at various levels and supporting their career growth.
• An outcome-oriented approach using metrics and data to understand development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, test coverage, etc.) to inform areas for continuous improvement.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with strong relationship, collaboration, and organization skills.

Requirements

• Ideally, you will also have experience with:
• Automation and scripting (GitHub Actions, Python, bash, PowerShell).
• Containerized development (Docker).
• Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure automation tooling such as Terraform and Ansible.
• AWS Cloud Services: API Gateway, EC2, EKS, Fargate, ECR, S3, Lambda, RDS, ALB, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, VPC, Subnets, IAM, Security Groups, Transit gateways.
• Azure Cloud Services: API Management, VM, AKS, Container Apps/Registry, Storage Accounts, Functions, App Gateway, Service Bus, Azure Monitor/Activity Log, Key Vault, VNET, NSG, Virtual WAN, Peering.
• GCP Cloud Services: API Gateway, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run/Storage/Functions/SQL, AlloyDB, Pub/Sub, Cloud Monitoring/Logging/Audit, Secret Manager, VPC, IAM, NCC, Cloud Router.
• Working within a highly regulated industry such as Financial Services or Healthcare.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave.
• Employee stock purchase plan.

Company Description

First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term. We celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it’s the key to our success.