Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering; Developer

Position: Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering (Developer Experience)
# Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering (Developer Experience)
With our career opportunities we offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, wellness program, paid parental leave, professional development, and a fully stocked kitchen.

Engineering is the backbone of the Everlaw Platform. We build features and functionality into the product and its supporting cloud infrastructure systems and ensure its smooth functioning. We also provide data and insights to the rest of Everlaw. At our core, we like to build and enjoy the creative process of building software that is smart, that works well, that scales well, and that is reliable and secure.

We do this by supporting and empowering our team members to do their best work, by tackling challenging and complex engineering problems and by nurturing and supporting each team member through mentoring, coaching, and comprehensive feedback.

This is a full-time position based in our Oakland, California office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home Tu/Fr.### Getting started
* ** We want you to feel like part of the team early on!
** Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals. [And you’ll spend meaningful time getting to know your direct reports and discover what excites and challenges them.]
* ** We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away!
** We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1.### In your role, you'll...
* Lead platform teams that build and evolve core internal platforms and developer tooling—spanning build/test infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer workflows—to improve engineer productivity and time-to-value.
* Collaborate closely with Engineering Operations, Security Engineering, Dev Ops, Product, and Design to synthesize requirements and prioritize impactful investments.
* Drive road mapping, resourcing, and execution for critical platform areas that make it better and cheaper to develop, test, and release software.
* Establish and use developer efficiency metrics (e.g., build/test times, deploy lead time, change failure rate) to identify bottlenecks and plan ambitious improvements to workflows.
* Ensure operational excellence for platform services and tooling with clear SLOs, robust observability, and incident/bug management practices.
* Coach and develop engineers and leads; provide actionable feedback, elevate technical execution, and foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture.
* Partner with Engineering Operations to improve processes for alignment, goal setting, empowerment, and cross-team execution across Engineering.
* Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, adjusting altitude from strategy to technical deep dives as needed.### About you
* You have at least 5 years as a senior engineer building developer productivity tools and/or highly available platform services (e.g., storage, pub-sub, search, caching, observability) and/or deep experience with infrastructure/cloud technologies (e.g., Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker).
* You have 3+ years of experience directly managing software engineers and/or technical leads, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and growing a high-performing team.
* You have 2+ years of experience building and leading developer experience or platform teams/programs that deliver internal platforms and tooling with measurable productivity outcomes (e.g., faster builds/tests, improved CI/CD lead times, higher deployment frequency).
* You have experience managing scalable database infrastructure (e.g., Postgres, MySQL or equivalent).
* You can communicate at the right altitude with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and you’ve led cross-functional roadmaps with Engineering Operations, Security Engineering, Dev Ops, Product, and Design.
* You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that currently, Everlaw is not sponsoring…