Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Athelas is a company focused on transforming healthcare through technology, and they are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for their Platform Infrastructure Engineering team. This role involves leading a senior team to build and maintain a secure, scalable platform that supports all engineering teams, enhancing the overall developer experience and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow the PIE team — a compact, senior group where your technical judgment and hands-on leadership directly shape outcomes. Hire and scale the team as platform scope grows
- Own the platform roadmap across all pillars: cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering, developer experience, intra-service security, and architecture standards
- Drive our multi-cloud strategy (AWS, GCP, Azure) and data center migrations, with everything defined as Infrastructure-as-Code
- Own the observability stack end to end — monitoring, alerting, tracing, on-call, and incident response — and establish SLO-driven reliability standards for service health across engineering
- Raise the bar on developer experience: golden-path tooling, CI/CD pipelines, local development, and release workflows that make the right way the easy way
- Partner with Security to embed cloud security posture management, RBAC, secrets management, and secure-by-default patterns into how every team builds
- Serve as a force multiplier for product engineering — run lightweight architecture reviews, set conventions that create operating leverage, and triage cross-team infrastructure requests with urgency and rigor
- Position the platform for the AI era — infrastructure for LLM-powered products and AI-accelerated development across the engineering org
- Foster a strong culture of ownership, curiosity, and collaboration
Skills
- 8-10+ years of experience developing software, with deep hands-on background in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering
- 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and growing senior engineers
- Hands-on expertise across the platform stack: networking and traffic management, compute orchestration (Kubernetes), datastores, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar), and observability tooling
- Expertise with modern cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure) and cloud-native architectures at scale
- A track record of running platform teams as force multipliers — measured by the velocity, reliability, and adoption they create for other teams, not just the systems they ship
- Proven technical leadership: you make architectural and strategic decisions that shape how an entire organization builds and deploys software, and you stay close enough to the code to make them well
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and present technical trade-offs to executive leadership
- A passion for healthcare innovation and making a meaningful impact on patient care
- Experience leading multi-cloud environments and data center/cloud migrations
- Experience building platforms for LLM-powered products or AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Experience in highly regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance) with a focus on compliance and security (HIPAA, SOC 2)
- Experience scaling engineering teams in high-growth environments
Company Overview
Athelas develops technology to monitor chronically ill patients in their homes. It is a sub-organization of Commure. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://athelas.com/.