Engineering Manager, Platform

Engineering Manager, Platform About Ditto: Ditto is redefining how data moves at the edge. Our mission is to make it seamless for developers to build resilient, real-time applications, regardless of network conditions. Whether you're in a stadium, airplane, or remote military base, Ditto's peer-to-peer sync engine ensures devices stay connected and data stays consistent, even without internet. With more than $145 million in funding and trusted by organizations like Chick-fil-A, Delta Airlines, and the U.S. military, Ditto powers mission-critical experiences across aviation, retail, travel, hospitality, defense, and more. As a globally distributed, fast-growing startup, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the wide range of perspectives needed to solve the world’s hardest connectivity problems. WHAT YOU’LL BE UP TO… - Lead and develop a team of platform engineers delivering managed Kubernetes across multiple cloud providers, BYOC customer deployments, and private networking capabilities for enterprise customers - Own the platform engineering delivery roadmap — sequencing, dependency tracking, and cross-team coordination with Cloud Organization, Security, and Professional Services - Drive foundational infrastructure programs including private networking, managed Kubernetes, and cloud account governance, establishing patterns that become Ditto’s standard deployment baseline - Manage the balance between active customer support commitments and internal platform investment — setting clear interrupt budgets and protecting engineering capacity for high-priority roadmap work - Translate technical architecture decisions into executable plans, ensuring engineers have clarity on what to build, why it matters, and how each piece fits the larger platform picture - Build the operational foundation — SLOs, runbooks, incident response, and access management — that moves Ditto’s infrastructure toward four 9s of reliability and business continuity - Represent the Platform team’s work clearly to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, communicating complex infrastructure programs to both technical and non-technical audiences - As the organization scales, take on broader scope across cloud networking and foundational infrastructure as those functions grow WHAT HELPS YOU THRIVE… - Track record of leading platform or infrastructure teams through major modernization initiatives — managed Kubernetes migrations, multi-cloud expansions, or greenfield infrastructure builds - Strong enough technical depth in Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure to engage credibly with senior engineers on architecture decisions, identify risks in proposals, and represent technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders - Experience managing competing priorities across customer delivery commitments and internal platform investment — you know how to protect foundational work without dropping live obligations - Clear, direct communicator who can represent complex infrastructure programs concisely to executive audiences and push back constructively when scope or timelines are unrealistic - Comfortable operating in ambiguity — you bring structure and clarity to situations that don’t have them yet, rather than waiting for perfect information before acting - Background in enterprise infrastructure deployment models where reliability, security posture, and compliance expectations are high - A proactive and curious attitude about how AI can support your role through automation, ideation, or more thoughtful decision-making GREAT-TO-HAVES… - Experience building or scaling a platform engineering function, including team design, hiring, and onboarding engineers into complex infrastructure domains - Familiarity with multi-cloud identity federation, OIDC delegation, or cross-provider authentication patterns - Hands-on background with private networking patterns or secure access tooling in production environments - Ex ... (truncated, view full listing at source)