Senior Engineering Manager (Platform)
OP
full-remoteseniorpermanentengineering-managementbackend United States 2 days ago via LinkedIn
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Platform EngineeringInfrastructureSystems EngineeringCI/CDSREAppSecCloud ArchitectureReliability EngineeringSLOs/SLIsFinTech
About the role
Role overview
Lead the Platform Engineering organization for a consumer-facing iGaming platform. You will own the platform roadmap and technical direction spanning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, runtime platforms, and shared services used by all product teams.
Responsibilities
- Drive execution across squads spanning AppSec, SRE, and QA: plan roadmaps into milestones, manage delivery risks/dependencies, and keep teams unblocked while maintaining quality and security guardrails.
- Own production platform outcomes at scale, supporting high-traffic, consumer-facing workloads.
- Lead the Platform Engineering team and define the technical direction and platform roadmap to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and developer productivity.
- Serve as the senior technical authority for platform architecture and pragmatic trade-offs between speed, cost, resilience, and risk.
- Mentor engineers building the foundation of the product.
- Design and evolve the platform architecture supporting web, mobile, backend, payments, and real-time gaming workloads.
- Lead initiatives to improve scalability, availability, and fault tolerance, including multi-AZ/region strategies, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
- Own platform-level SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and reliability metrics, partnering with SRE and engineering leadership.
- Apply AI platforms to accelerate development, testing, code reviews, and security scans.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in platform, infrastructure, or systems engineering.
- 3+ years leading senior engineers or platform teams.
- Proven track record owning production platforms at scale for high traffic, consumer-facing products.
- Demonstrated success scaling through rapid growth (users, traffic, transactions, teams).
Nice to have
- FinTech, gaming/casino, and/or regulatory experience.
Work setup & benefits
- Fully remote with a flexible work culture.
- Medical/dental/vision coverage (100%), and 401(k) employer match.
About OP
OP is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Platform Engineering for a fast-growing iGaming startup building sweepstakes-based gaming experiences. The company operates at the intersection of gaming, technology, and user engagement, with a platform enabling cross-game interactions at scale.
Scraped 4/12/2026