Manager, Platform Engineering

Job description

Manager, Platform Engineering Location: US - Remote: Experience: 8+ years in Cloud/Platform/Infrastructure Engineering. About the Role: As the Manager of Platform Engineering , you will lead the backbone of Natera’s infrastructure. You aren’t just managing a team, you are the Product Manager of our Cloud Ecosystem. You will oversee three critical high-performing workstreams: Cloud Engineering, Orchestration and Kafka, consisting of several elite engineers, including Staff-level experts. At Natera, we don't just "provide infrastructure", we build an AI-native Internal Developer Platform (IDP) . Your mission is to ensure that our cloud environment doesn't just support workloads, but makes deploying and scaling them effortless for every engineering team in the company. We operate with a "Platform as a Product" philosophy. This means you will treat our internal developers as customers, seeking to understand their friction points and delivering a seamless, self-service experience that balances speed with enterprise-grade guardrails. Reporting directly to the Director of Platform Engineering, you will have the autonomy to define the roadmap, align stakeholders across the organization, an...