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Everlaw · 5 hours ago

Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering (Developer Experience)

Oakland, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$219K/yr - $277K/yr

5+ years exp

Everlaw is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform to lead teams focused on developer experience and developer productivity. The role involves owning roadmaps for internal platforms and tooling and collaborating across the organization to deliver measurable efficiency gains.

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Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Hiring Manager

Erika Kelsey Jimeno

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

Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, adjusting altitude from strategy to technical deep dives as needed

Qualification

Developer productivity toolsCI/CDCloud technologiesTeam managementDatabase infrastructureDeveloper workflowsMetrics dashboardsCommunication skillsMentoringCollaboration

Required

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, DevOps, Product, and Design

You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that currently, Everlaw is not sponsoring employment visas

Preferred

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

Practice measuring and communicating developer efficiency using metrics dashboards (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Grafana) to guide prioritization and demonstrate impact