Platform Engineering Manager
About the role
We are looking for a Platform Engineering Manager to lead and grow our platform team while keeping a strong hand on technical direction. You will be responsible for a team of three confirmed / senior platform engineers, and your mission is to make them, and the wider engineering organization, more effective: shipping reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure, and enabling product teams to move fast through strong self-service capabilities.
This is a player-coach role. You will spend most of your time leading: coaching engineers, setting standards, owning the platform roadmap, and partnering with stakeholders. But you will stay close enough to the technology to review work, pair when it matters, and make sound architectural calls with your team.
You will own reliability, security, performance, and cost across both cloud and on-premise environments, and continuously adapt the platform and the team's capabilities to evolving technologies.
Your team
You will lead a team of three confirmed / senior platform engineers. They are experienced and autonomous, so your role is less about directing day-to-day execution and more about giving them clarity, removing friction, growing their scope, and raising the overall technical bar.
Our stack
Back-end
On the back end, the REST API is historically implemented with Django. However, new developments are done with Deno, so TypeScript. The database technology is AWS Aurora with Postgres compatibility, for both Django and Deno servers. With Deno, we use Drizzle as a lightweight ORM. We heavily use Honeycomb and Sentry to understand what goes on at scale. Our coding style in TypeScript is inspired by data-oriented programming.
Front-end
Our web app is a single-page application in Vue.js, partially in TypeScript; we migrate from JavaScript as we go. The front-end application is continuously deployed with Cloudflare Pages, which allows for preview URLs on pull requests. We use Claap to share videos of our work and Sentry to log errors. We also have a mobile application, developed with Vue.js and Capacitor.
Infrastructure
The servers run as containers on AWS. We use ECS and Fargate, and we plan to use EKS in the future. The infrastructure is entirely Terraformed, using CDKTF with TypeScript. A small number of customers have dedicated infrastructures. We also support on-premise deployments using Kubernetes operators, alongside a deployment toolkit built with Nix. For observability, we use Honeycomb, built on OpenTelemetry, giving us structured traces across the stack.
What we expect from the role
Leading the team
Lead, coach, and grow a team of three confirmed / senior platform engineers, supporting their development through regular feedback, career conversations, and technical mentoring
Set and raise the technical bar through reviews, pairing, and clear engineering standards
Own hiring for the team and shape how it scales over time
Build a healthy, autonomous, high-trust environment where senior platform engineers can do their best work
Owning the platform
Own the platform roadmap and technical vision, balancing reliability, security, cost, and delivery speed
Deliver infrastructure changes through automation while maintaining high availability and a strong engineering experience
Enable engineers to focus on product development by delivering self-service capabilities that abstract infrastructure and security complexity
Enable on-premise customers to use Fabriq reliably
Adapt organizational and platform capabilities to technological evolutions
Working across the org
Partner with engineering, product, and security stakeholders to align priorities and facilitate change management
Communicate clearly through documentation, technical decisions, and customer-facing relationships
Required experience and skills
Leadership
Experience managing or leading engineers, ideally including senior / confirmed profiles, with a track record of growing people through mentoring and technical guidance
Ability to set the technical bar and hold it, with the maturity that comes from significant production experience
Strong communication skills for documentation writing, stakeholder alignment, and change management facilitation
Technical foundation (you should be credible and hands-on enough to lead this team)
Significant production experience on AWS using container technologies and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform / Pulumi)
Solid production experience with Kubernetes in on-premise / private cloud contexts (storage controller management, advanced networking, control plane management)
Very strong networking knowledge (all OSI layers, TLS, DNS, DHCP, routing)
Strong Linux system knowledge, including containers and troubleshooting
Programming and code architecture skills
Test-Driven Development practices and a very good understanding of Domain-Driven Design
Production experience in release management including CI systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and CD systems (e.g. ArgoCD, Spinnaker)
Production experience in monitoring, alerting, and observability implementation, performance troubleshooting, and reliability engineering
Production experience in database management (handling migrations, introducing breaking changes in data schemas without downtime, handling backup and restoration)
Baseline knowledge of security compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2)
Working with AI agents
Additional skills and experience we value
Packaging code with Nix and configuring operating systems with NixOS / nix-darwin
Working with airgapped environments (environments disconnected from the internet)
Experience with zero-trust systems
Knowledge of advanced security compliance frameworks (IGI 901, FedRAMP)
Experience with AI agent factories
Interview Process
1. Screening - 30 min A first call to align on your background, motivations, and what Fabriq can offer.
2. ITW Managent Skills - 45 min A role-play exercise based on your past management experiences.
3. Technical interview - 90 to 120 min A deep-dive with the Platform team on real infrastructure and engineering challenges.
4. Meet the Platform team An informal exchange with your future teammates to see how we'd work together.
5. Meet the CEOs A final conversation on Fabriq's vision, ambition, and culture fit.
