Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform

Job summary

Responsibilities

As the Engineering Manager for Baseten's Cloud Platform team, you will directly manage a team of cloud platform engineers responsible for building the systems and processes that keep our infrastructure scalable, reliable, and efficient — from automated deployments and monitoring to performance…

• Recruit, hire, and grow a high-performing team of cloud platform engineers; provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and career development through regular 1:1s.
• Set clear performance expectations, hold a high bar, and create an environment where engineers do their best work.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Drive day-to-day technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions; translate the infrastructure roadmap into clear team priorities and…
• Establish standards and best practices for reliability, performance, and operational excellence; ensure the team owns projects end-to-end, from specification through production.

What they're looking for

• Proven experience directly managing engineers in a cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE context (not managing managers).
• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, with the ability to engage credibly in architectural discussions and code reviews.
• Strong background building and maintaining scalable, production infrastructure.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins).
• Demonstrated ability to drive projects end-to-end — from specification to execution — and coach your team to do the same.

Tech stack

• Spark
• Kubernetes
• Terraform