Engineering Manager, Platform Job at Gamma (San Francisco)

Engineering Manager, Platform

Gamma

Location:
United States , San Francisco

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

250000.00 - 350000.00 USD / Year

Save Job

Apply Position

Job Description:

You'll lead Gamma's Platform organization as we scale to serve hundreds of millions of users. This means overseeing the critical systems that power everything—infrastructure, security, identity, and foundational platforms that enable product teams to move fast while maintaining world-class reliability and performance. You'll manage a team of 15-20 engineers across multiple domains, balancing technical vision with people leadership to build the foundation that makes Gamma possible. As an Engineering Manager, you'll drive technical excellence across infrastructure, identity, security, and app platform teams. You'll own the technical roadmap for systems that serve millions daily, partner with product engineering and leadership to enable rapid feature delivery, and establish operational excellence practices including incident response and system observability. You'll balance competing priorities across scaling, security, and developer experience while building and mentoring a world-class team.

Job Responsibility:

Lead and mentor a team of 15-20 platform engineers across infrastructure, identity, security, and app platform domains
Guide senior and staff engineers in making strategic technical decisions about architecture, scalability, security, and reliability
Own the technical roadmap for platform systems including AWS infrastructure, identity and authentication, security tooling, and developer platform capabilities
Drive platform engineering hiring and onboarding, collaborating with recruiting and leadership to build world-class teams
Establish operational excellence practices including incident response, on-call rotations, SLAs, and system observability
Champion security-first thinking and compliance requirements (SOC 2, GDPR) across the engineering organization

Requirements:

8+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, backend systems, or security, with deep proficiency in AWS, distributed systems, and authentication systems
4+ years managing and developing engineering teams, with experience leading teams across multiple technical domains or managing managers
Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS), identity and authentication systems, security engineering, and observability
Strong knowledge of security best practices, compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and building secure-by-default systems
Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex infrastructure and security concepts to product teams and leadership
Demonstrated track record delivering complex infrastructure migrations, security initiatives, and platform improvements while maintaining reliability

Nice to have:

Experience managing platform teams at high-growth SaaS companies (100M+ users)
Background leading security engineering or trust & safety teams
Experience with identity platforms (AWS Cognito, WorkOS, Auth0, Okta) and OAuth/SSO implementations
Track record of successful large-scale infrastructure migrations

What we offer:

competitive equity

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 20, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

Gamma - All Job Offers

Job Link Share: