Platform Engineering Lead

75% Individual Contributor work

25% Manager responsibilities

Job Summary:

Ready to take the next step in your leadership journey? We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Platform Engineering Lead with a passion for shaping the future of our platform. You will guide and mentor a team of platform engineers, driving the design, build, and maintenance of our core infrastructure and tools that empower our product development teams. This role requires a strong technical background in Platform engineering / Dev(Sec)Ops, coupled with proven experience in guiding technical direction and fostering the growth of engineering talent.

Primary Duties Including % of time:

• 50% - Design, build, manage and monitor the infrastructure of RoadRunner technology
• 25% - Lead and mentor our platform and data engineers
• 15% - Collaborate with product and engineering managers to define technical roadmaps and help guide our technology north star
• 10% - Maintain current awareness of marketplace trends, both technical and process improvements

Travel required: 0%

Organizational Relationship:

• Reports To: CTO
• Direct Reports: Senior Platform Engineer, Data Engineer
• Interacts with: Technology, Product, Analysis and Business Strategy

Skills and Experience

• 7+ years professional experience in Platform engineering, Dev(Sec)Ops or related field of engineering
• 3+ years experience as a team lead
• Strong technical background in platform engineering, with current hands-on experience in relevant or similar technologies (AWS services and ecosystem, Terraform, Docker, DataDog)
• Experience building and managing web application infrastructure at scale.
• Preferred experience in data engineering and application architecture
• Experience creating technical scopes, technical requirements documents and technical roadmaps.
• The ability to communicate technical concepts and decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
• Preferred experience hiring and growing an engineering team.
• Experience overseeing and implementing technical processes such as pull request reviews, code coverage, continuous integration and deployment, and cloud platform management.
• The ability to debug complex technical issues.
• Passionate about business results and quality, with a strong sense of accountability, metrics and ownership.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to grasp the tactical details.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, is dynamic, and can capture a group’s interest and maintain it as well as the ability to facilitate meetings with diverse and sometimes conflicting points of view.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, multi-task, and effectively prioritize assignments with minimal supervision.
• Ability to influence and collaborate at all levels and across all functions of the organization.
• Proven ability to organize/manage multiple priorities coupled with the flexibility to quickly adapt to ever changing business needs.
• Strong analytical and problem solving. Solid decision making in a timely manner.
• Enthusiasm for our sustainability driven mission

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Core Values:

• Trust: Have confidence in our team. Have integrity in your actions  
• Be Humble: Stay grounded. Seek feedback. Be curious.
• Be Passionate: Love what you do. Love what we do.
• Embrace Challenge:  See obstacles as opportunities to learn and grow. 
• Be Accountable: Take ownership. Be reliable. Be proactive. 
• Care Personally About Each Other: Show compassion, empathy and open-mindedness.

We are excited to consider talented individuals from across the country. However, please note that we currently do not support candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK) / Delaware (DE) / Hawaii (HI) / Kansas (KA) / Louisiana (LA) / Maine (ME) / Montana (MT) / Nebraska (NE) / Nevada (NV) / New Mexico (NM) / North Dakota (ND) / South Dakota (SD) / Vermont (VT) / Wyoming (WY) 

We thank all candidates for their interest in RoadRunner, but we cannot respond to everyone personally. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. We look forward to reviewing your application! 

RoadRunner is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. It is the policy of RoadRunner that qualified individuals with disabilities are not discriminated against because of their disabilities regarding job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. It is further the policy of RoadRunner to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in all aspects of the employment process. RoadRunner is prepared to modify or adjust the job application process or the job or work environment to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of the applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the position he or she desires, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship.