About the role

Role Overview

You will manage Platform Engineering and lead the backbone of Natera’s infrastructure. The role operates under a Platform as a Product philosophy—treating internal developers as customers to deliver a seamless self-service cloud ecosystem with enterprise-grade guardrails.

Responsibilities

Own the vision and roadmap for Natera’s cloud, orchestration, and Kafka ecosystems (multi-year planning).
Lead three workstreams:
- Cloud Engineering
- Orchestration
- Kafka
Treat the internal developer platform as a world-class product:
- Understand developer friction points
- Deliver self-service experiences that balance speed and guardrails
Drive customer success by improving internal satisfaction metrics across the engineering organization.
Establish execution priorities in the first 6 months:
- Refine the cloud/event-streaming roadmap
- Close high-impact in-flight projects while maintaining production stability and reliability
Align stakeholders organization-wide while reporting to the Director of Platform Engineering.

Requirements

8+ years experience in Cloud / Platform / Infrastructure Engineering.

Nice-to-Haves

Experience leading Staff-level engineers and managing multiple platform workstreams.
Demonstrated product-minded leadership for developer platforms (Platform as a Product).

About Natera

Natera is a technology company building platforms for advanced healthcare diagnostics. It focuses on scaling engineering capabilities and infrastructure, including an AI-native Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that enables other teams to deploy and scale workloads efficiently.

Manager Platform Engineering

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