Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Engineering teams at Ethos. You'll own the systems that power every policy we sell, from the moment a customer enters our funnel through the lifetime of that policy. This is a hands-on leadership role that can operate at both altitude and depth

What you'll do

• Own the outcomes for your domain end to end — the strategy, the technical direction, and the results
• Hire, grow, and retain strong engineers and leads, and mentor the team through design and architecture reviews
• Partner with Product and Staff Engineers to build the technical roadmap and run quarterly planning
• Own cross-team architectural decisions and the internal standards other teams build on: service decomposition, event schema evolution, inter-service contract stability
• Drive operational excellence: observability, runbook quality, postmortem culture, and the reduction of toil

What you need

• 3–6 yrs of experience
• Microservices
• Kafka
• PRD writing
• Datadog
• Incident response
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Python
• AWS
• Go