Join Rula as an Engineering Manager to lead our Platform (Core Services) team. You will be responsible for building and maintaining highly flexible, reliable, and scalable services and tools to support our product development. This remote position offers a range of benefits, including paid parental leave, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a 401(k) retirement plan.
About the role
- A proven track record of mentoring senior-level engineers in technical domains such as distributed systems, microservices architecture, or cloud-native infrastructure - High familiarity with AWS (specifically IAM, VPC, and EKS) to ensure the scalability and security of core libraries - Demonstrated experience maintaining shared tooling and services with a focus on reliability, including establishing SLOs and managing high-availability systems - 3+ years of experience directly managing a high-performing engineering team, with a focus on people development, performance management, and building high-trust environments - 5+ years of professional experience specifically building and maintaining backend platform infrastructure or shared services that support multiple product engineering teams - Strong capabilities in coaching engineers through complex architectural transitions and career pathing - Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally to drive the adoption of "golden path" internal developer platforms - High-level understanding of Kubernetes for managing containerized workloads at scale - Experience with eventing systems and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) at high volume - While having the preferred qualifications enhances your candidacy, having all of them is not mandatory. We encourage all interested applicants to apply, even those who may not meet every preferred requirementKey missions
- Lead a team of platform engineers to build and maintain highly flexible, reliable, and scalable services and tools.
- Define the team charter, establish ownership boundaries, and drive the mission of providing shared libraries and services.
- Mentor senior-level engineers in technical domains such as distributed systems, microservices architecture, or cloud-native infrastructure.