Engineering Manger - Dev Platform

About the Role

Our Platform Engineering team builds and operates the core backend systems that power CoCounsel's AI agent platform — the infrastructure that lets legal AI agents run reliably at scale. We own the services that sit between product-facing chat/agent experiences and the AI runtime layer, the CI/CD and deployment infrastructure that ships them safely, and the internal developer tooling that other engineering teams build on. We work closely with product, applied-AI, and platform teams to ship AI-driven capabilities faster and more reliably across the business. 

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of platform engineers, owning both their technical output and their growth — staying close enough to the architecture and code to make sound calls, while driving the team's roadmap and priorities in partnership with engineering leadership. 

What you will do 

• Own people-management responsibilities for a team of platform engineers — hiring, performance management, career development, and workload/priority balancing — while remaining technically engaged in architecture and code-level decisions. 

• Set and communicate team-level technical strategy and roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership, translating business priorities into an execution plan. 

• Guide the design and delivery of backend and platform services that power AI agent workflows — request/event ingestion, agent orchestration, document and file handling — ensuring reliability and delivery speed for product teams building on the platform. 

• Steer the evolution of the CI/CD and progressive-delivery infrastructure that lets both customer-facing product systems and internal developer tooling ship safely and continuously — including release-decoupling work that separates code deployment from customer-facing exposure. 

• Ensure the team owns and evolves the cloud infrastructure the platform runs on — provisioning, capacity planning, and environment configuration — using Infrastructure-as-Code practices. 

• Champion sound backend architecture with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability across a microservices/event-driven system, influencing long-term platform direction. 

• Drive cross-functional technical initiatives with product, applied-AI, and infrastructure teams, aligning priorities and de-risking complex, multi-system projects from design through production. 

• Raise the bar on engineering practices — code quality, automated testing, observability, CI/CD, and operational excellence — across the platform stack. 

• Champion observability across the platform — metrics, logging, and tracing — ensuring your team and downstream teams have the visibility needed to operate complex systems with confidence. 

• Ensure strong operational posture for the team's services — monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production systems running on managed cloud AI runtimes (e.g. AWS Bedrock AgentCore) and Kubernetes. 

• Ensure the team maintains a healthy on-call rotation supporting our customer-facing systems and critical internal tooling, and participate in it yourself — treating every incident as an opportunity to protect the customer experience. 

• Grow technical leadership within the team, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement. 

About you

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including prior technical leadership or people-management experience, with a track record designing, building, and operating large-scale backend systems in production. 

• Demonstrated experience leading a team directly — 1:1s, performance reviews, hiring, career development — while staying credible at the code/architecture level. 

• Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI or similar) or another backend language, with deep experience in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native development. 

• Hands-on expertise with relational databases (PostgreSQL), caching/messaging systems (Redis), API design, and AWS, including container orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS). 

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline engineering and progressive/safe delivery patterns, and release engineering (decoupling deployment from release exposure). 

• Infrastructure-as-Code practices for managing cloud infrastructure. 

• Experience with observability tooling (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Datadog) for building and operating production systems. 

• Experience operating systems built on or integrating with LLM/Generative AI infrastructure is a strong plus. 

• Demonstrated strength in system design, debugging, and performance optimization, with the ability to make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term scalability.

Nice to Have

• Proven ability to influence technical direction without direct authority, and to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences and leadership. 

• Hands-on experience with AWS CDK specifically is a nice-to-have. 

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