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Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure + Developer Productivity

$296K–$444K

Remote +2 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026

Location
Remote
San Francisco
New York
Experience
10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management.

About the job

Leads Patreon’s Infrastructure and Developer Productivity teams, owning their roadmap and execution to improve production reliability, engineering efficiency, and AI-enabled software development.

What you'll do

  • Manage and grow individual contributors; oversee hiring, performance, and career development.
  • Lead operational excellence across observability, on-call, incident response, SLAs/SLOs, and Production Readiness Reviews.
  • Set infrastructure, developer-productivity, and AI-enablement strategy in partnership with Product Engineering, Security, and Data.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management; managing managers or senior ICs across multiple teams is described as ideal.
  • Direct experience leading infrastructure, platform, or developer-productivity teams supporting a consumer product at scale.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
  • Experience operating scalable production systems with high-availability and performance requirements; strong cross-functional partnership skills.

Nice to have

  • Experience scaling developer tooling, such as CI/CD, testing platforms, or internal developer environments.
  • Exposure to AI-assisted development; organizational rollout of AI coding tools or agents, including adoption metrics and guardrails.

Pay

$296K – $444K USD base salary

Tools

AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code tooling, CI/CD

AI focus

Drive AI-enablement strategy, including decisions on standardizing tools and workflows versus allowing team choice; the role may involve rolling out AI coding tools or agents, adoption metrics, and guardrails.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)