RunPod
Develop, train, and scale AI models. All in one cloud.
Engineering Manager – Product & Platform Delivery
Engineering ManagerEngineering ManagerFull TimeRemoteTeam 51-200Since 2022H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
100 days ago
Salary
$175K - $250K / year
6 yrs expEnglishCloudLinuxMicroservicesPythonType ScriptGo
Job Description
• Own Feature Delivery for a Product Area: Lead a team of engineers responsible for shipping new functionality and iterating existing product surfaces. Deliver predictable, high-velocity outcomes that improve customer experience and business value.
• Plan and Execute Roadmaps: Translate product strategy into clear technical plans, milestones, and success metrics. Identify tradeoffs early and manage scope, risk, and timelines.
• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Drive pragmatic system design for product-layer services and workflows, ensuring scalability, performance, and consistency with Runpod’s platform.
• Build and Grow a Strong Team: Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; set expectations, provide feedback, and create a culture of ownership, speed, and craft in a remote-first environment.
• Quality & Reliability for Product Surfaces: Improve automated testing, release safety, observability for customer-facing systems, and regression prevention. Ensure on-call health for your team’s services.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner tightly with Product, Program management, Support, GTM, and Infrastructure counterparts. Coordinate dependencies cleanly while maintaining clear ownership.
• Operational Excellence: Establish team rituals and delivery systems (sprints/kanban, retros, design reviews). Use data to improve cycle time, throughput, and feature adoption.
• Customer-Driven Execution: Stay close to user needs by incorporating feedback, analytics, and support signals into prioritization and iteration.
Job Requirements
- 2+ years managing a team of high performance software engineers, including ownership of roadmap delivery, hiring/firing, performance, and team culture.
- 6+ years as a software engineer building and shipping products used by millions of users, with clear evidence of personal impact.
- Strong experience with Linux systems internals and/or cloud systems engineering - ideally building platform capabilities (orchestration, control planes, distributed services, networking or storage layers).
- Comfortable reviewing and contributing to code in modern stacks; Go, Python, and/or TypeScript experience preferred.
- Solid understanding of microservices, APIs, eventing, data stores, and service-to-service communication patterns.
- Experience running execution processes and using metrics like cycle time, throughput, adoption, and escape defects to improve team flow.
- Proven ability to communicate clearly, align stakeholders asynchronously, and sustain momentum across time zones.
- Successful completion of a background check.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company- everyone on the team receives stock options — your impact drives our growth, and you share in the upside.
- Generous medical, dental & vision plans — we cover 100% for all employees and partial for dependents.
- Flexible PTO- take the time you need to recharge
- Most roles are remote work first with an inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing slack as the main form of internal communication
- $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend- We set you up for success from day one with gear and support to create your ideal workspace
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