Cinder

Engineering Manager - Core Infra

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: New York.
Location as listed by the employer: “New York”
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About this role

Cinder is hiring for a Engineering Manager - Core Infra role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 8+ years building production software with at least 4 years in a startup environment, managing platform engineers directly. You've owned a team's delivery, not just your own, and you've grown ICs into stronger engineers.
  • Deep familiarity with high-throughput, data-intensive systems, workflow/automation engines, or AI-powered platforms in production, with experience managing full stack engineers
  • A track record of driving a high-performing team: clear priorities and sufficient process to drive both velocity and quality, grounded in metrics.
  • Technical credibility with a senior team. You can lead architecture and trade-off discussions, review work, and earn the respect of staff-level engineers. We use AI tooling extensively and expect you to be fluent and op…
  • Experience setting roadmaps and priorities in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment, and the judgment to decide what to deprioritize.
  • A real point of view on what high-performing engineering teams look like and how to measure them, with experience driving reliability, quality, or operational metrics..
  • You give direct, constructive feedback as a matter of course, and you deliver it in a way people can act on.
  • Clear written communication. While our company is concentrated in our NYC headquarters, this team is distributed across London and the east coast of the US. You write clearly in PRs, Slack, planning docs, and cross-func…

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