Platform Engineering Manager

Platform Engineering And Developer Portal ManagerYou are more than a job title. We want you to feel comfortable doing great work and bringing your best, authentic self to everything you do. We value your talents, traditions, and uniqueness—and we're committed to fostering a strong sense of belonging in a respectful workplace.We intentionally seek diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds, investing in a culture designed to celebrate differences. We believe that belonging leads to better outcomes and a stronger community of associates united by our mission. At Capital, we live our core values every day: Integrity, Client Focus, Diverse Perspectives, Long-Term Thinking, and Community.You want to feel recognized at work. Your performance will be reviewed annually, and your compensation will be designed to motivate and reward the value that you provide. You'll receive a competitive salary, bonuses and benefits. Your company-funded retirement contribution will factor in salary and variable pay, including bonuses.You bring unique goals and interests to your job and your life. Whether you're raising a family, you're passionate about where you volunteer, or you want to explore different career paths, we'll give you the resources that can set you up for success.Enjoy generous time-away and health benefits from day one, with the opportunity for flexible work optionsReceive 2-for-1 matching gifts for your charitable contributions and the opportunity to secure annual grants for the organizations you loveAccess on-demand professional development resources that allow you to hone existing skills and learn new onesWe are looking for a Platform Engineering leader to own and evolve our Internal Developer Portal (IDP) as a first-class product for developers. In this role, you will partner with Product Management to define the strategy, roadmap, and adoption of a centralized service catalog and self-service capabilities that reduce friction and cognitive load for engineering teams. You will establish clear "Golden Paths" that enable teams to build, deploy, and operate software safely and efficiently while maintaining flexibility to innovate.You will act as a key connector between platform engineering, architecture, security, and application teams—ensuring our cloud platform tooling is intuitive, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards. Through this work, you will directly improve developer velocity, onboarding efficiency, and platform consistency across the organization.In this role, you will lead and grow a team of Platform Engineers, investing in their coaching, technical excellence, and career development. You are a hands-on, player?coach leader who values strong engineering fundamentals, continuous learning, and outcome-driven delivery.You have experience leading internal platforms or developer-facing products and treating developer experience as a core product capability.You bring a strong understanding of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, GitOps, and cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes.You are familiar with the Internal Developer Portal ecosystem and tools such as Backstage, Port, or Cortex.You excel at building alignment and consensus across Security, SRE, Architecture, and Engineering leadership.You have experience managing and developing teams across multiple locations and time zones.You are comfortable partnering with Product Managers and delivery leads to prioritize work and drive predictable outcomes.You have helped establish AI?assisted development as a standard engineering capability by embedding it into developer workflows and defining clear ways of working (e.g., prompt conventions, shared context, and guardrails) that improve consistency, accelerate onboarding, and reduce cognitive load while maintaining engineering rigor.You are a continuous learner who seeks opportunities to adopt new technologies and improve both technical and business acumen.You hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).You have 10+ years of experience in engineering roles, including 5+ years leading and developing engineering teams, with a demonstrated ability to build reliable, scalable platforms that enable other teams to succeed.You bring experience across several of the following areas:Internal Developer Platforms and service catalogs (e.g. Backstage or similar frameworks)Cloud platforms and container orchestration (AWS preferred; Kubernetes and Docker)Infrastructure as Code and automation (Terraform or equivalent)Software development using languages such as TypeScript, Python, Java or GoAPI and microservice design in distributed systemsDevOps and DevSecOps practices across the full SDLCObservability concepts including metrics, logs, traces, and open standards such as OpenTelemetryCI/CD tooling and developer workflows (e.g., GitHub, Jira, Confluence, pipeline orchestration tools)Technical documentation, including product requirements, high-level architecture and detailed design artifactsYou've reviewed this job posting and you're ready to start the candidate journey with us. Apply now to move to the next step in our recruiting process. If this role isn't what you're looking for, check out our other opportunities and join our talent community.At Capital Group, the success of the people who invest with us depends on the people in whom we invest. That's why we offer a culture, compensation and opportunities that empower our associates to build successful and prosperous careers. Through nine decades, our goal has been to improve people's lives through successful investing. We are an equal opportunity employer, which means we comply with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit discrimination when making all decisions about employment.