Software Engineering Manager, Software Platform

## **About the role** Muon seeks an Software Engineering Manager to lead our Software Platform team. This team builds and operates the paved roads (CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bazel, AWS, IAM, data infrastructure, and more) that underpin both our internal tooling and the production systems behind customer-facing products such as Muon Mission Command. The Software Platform team is critical to the overall growth and success of Muon's software engineering organization: as the number of product teams, services, and customers expands, the leverage this team creates, through reduced cognitive load, eliminated toil, and self-service Golden Paths, directly determines how fast the rest of engineering can move. This manager will inherit a team of six engineers, and will be responsible for both scaling that team to meet current demand and evolving it into a product-minded platform organization whose customers are Muon's own developers. This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week. ## **Responsibilities** - Lead, mentor, and grow the Software Platform team. Own hiring, performance management, coaching, and team composition for a growing platform organization. Actively recruit engineers to meet the demands of a rapidly scaling software department. - Define team goals, and technical roadmaps that align with companies priorities. - Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical services operating in production. - Work with cross-functional stakeholders to translate mission needs into clear requirements and technical specifications. - Drive engineering best practices including design reviews, code quality, testing, and observability. - Manage team capacity, staffing, and growth, including hiring, coaching, and performance development. - Promote a culture of technical ownership, continuous improvement, and pragmatic delivery. - Build feedback loops with developer-customers, prioritize based on real friction, and hold clear ownership boundaries so product teams retain accountability for their applications. ## **Qualifications** - BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience. - 5+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years managing software engineering teams building and operating production systems. - Direct experience managing a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE team, including responsibility for hiring, performance management, coaching senior engineers, and shaping team composition. - Strong technical background in distributed systems, backend services, or platform development, with hands-on depth in Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS. - Demonstrated experience supporting production systems with real uptime, reliability, and performance requirements (SLOs, on-call, incident response, postmortems). - Track record of establishing paved roads / Golden Paths and treating internal platforms as products, with developers as customers. - Experience running a DevOps or SRE function embedded within a platform team (rather than as a separate silo), consistent with our team model. - Experience defining technical direction and driving execution through a team, including prioritization, roadmap ownership, and stakeholder alignment. - Strong communication skills and comfort partnering with cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, security, and IT/information systems. - Ability to hold clear ownership boundaries, comfortable saying "no" to work that belongs to product teams while still being a great partner to them. ## **Nice-to-have Skills** - Hands-on experience with Bazel or another large-scale monorepo build system. - Experience leading data engineering or data platform work as part of a broader platform team. - Familiarity with Cloudflare, Artifactory, IAM/Okta, InfluxDB, or Grafana-based observability stacks. - Experience scaling a platform team through a period of rapid organizational growth. - Experience…