Engineering Manager - Platform

At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections. Mindbody equips wellness entrepreneurs with technology to support thriving businesses and create exceptional experiences. Innovation and curiosity drive our culture, connecting businesses and individuals through cutting-edge solutions. Join us if you're passionate about enhancing wellness through technology. You’ll likely spend time working on: • Empowering your engineering team to deliver high levels of technical quality and business impact. • Recruiting a diverse team of engineers recognized as some of the best in the industry, from outreach to closing. • Managing a team of engineers and facilitating their career development through challenging responsibilities and constructive feedback. • Actively participating in strategic direction and product decisions for your team. • Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of the Playlist engineering management team. About the right team member: You are an experienced engineer who has successfully transitioned into a people leader, passionate about building and operating reliable, scalable cloud platforms and developer infrastructure that empower engineering teams. You possess extensive experience in at least one aspect of developing a world-class cloud platform and can effectively manage a high-performing team throughout the entire process. You’ll thrive in this role with experience in: • 3+ years of direct management experience with an engineering team of at least 6 members with skills across the stack • Hands-on experience building and operating production cloud platforms and Kubernetes/CNCF ecosystems in the public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure). • Strong grounding in infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation, GitOps), with operational rigor across incident response, observability, networking, identity, compute, and storage at scale. • Proven ability to establish and articulate a vision, set goals, and execute effectively. Technologies you’ll be working with: We value adaptability and problem-solving over specific tools, but here’s what you’ll likely work with: • Kubernetes, Kubernetes ecosystem (Karpenter, Keda, Flux, cert-manager, ExternalDNS) • Amazon Web Services (IAM, KMS, EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, SQS) • CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, Flux, Flagger) • Programming Languages (TypeScript, Go, Python, Bash) Pay Transparency It is Playlist’s intent to pay all Team Members competitive wages and salaries that are motivational, fair, and equitable. The goal of Playlist’s compensation program is to be transparent, attract potential employees, meet the needs of all current employees, and encourage Team Members to stay with our organization. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. The base salary range for this position in the United States is $151,000 - $201,000. The total compensation package for this position also includes a bonus target and a full benefits package. Have we piqued your curiosity? Sound like the role for you? We’d love to hear from you! Even if you’re not 100% sure about potential fit, we still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for the right person, not the perfect s