Everlaw is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform to lead teams focused on developer experience and developer productivity, enabling engineers to ship high-quality software quickly, safely, and at scale. The role will own roadmaps for internal platforms and tooling (build/test systems, CI/CD, environments, and workflows) and collaborate across the org to deliver measurable efficiency gains.
Requirements
- 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).
- 3+ years of experience directly managing software engineers and/or technical leads, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and growing a high-performing team.
- 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).
- experience managing scalable database infrastructure (e.g., Postgres, MySQL or equivalent).
- Experience with developer ecosystems in Java, Python, or TypeScript; familiarity with Gradle, Bazel, Maven, or similar build systems.
- Background building or managing React/TypeScript apps and frontend build tooling (e.g., NPM, Webpack), or optimizing backend services (e.g., Java + Gradle/Kotlin).
- Experience building and supporting developer tools including scripts, dashboards, CLIs, and developer portals.
Responsibilities
- 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, DevOps, Product, and Design to synthesize requirements and prioritize impactful investments.
- Drive roadmapping, 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.
Other
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, adjusting altitude from strategy to technical deep dives as needed.
- 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, DevOps, Product, and Design.
- You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that currently, Everlaw is not sponsoring employment visas.
- 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.
