The Developer Platform Team @ Pave The Developer Platform team sits at the epicenter of Pave Engineering. The team is responsible for Pave's infrastructure, developer tooling, and development workflows, ensuring product engineers can confidently ship enterprise-quality software with high velocity. In this role, you will lead a team of experienced engineers focused on creating a best-in-class development experience and designing & managing scalable, secure cloud infrastructure to support the uptime and performance requirements of Pave's largest, most sophisticated customers. What You'll Be Doing: * Manage, coach, and grow a team of high-performing backend and infrastructure engineers * Drive strategic engineering initiatives to improve the scalability, performance, and reliability of the Pave application * Manage critical vendor relationships, like GCP and Datadog * Lead Pave's business continuity and disaster recovery strategy * Define Engineering best practices and drive adoption across the organization What You'll Bring: * 7+ years of industry experience with a strong emphasis on cloud infrastructure and developer tooling, including 2+ years management experience * Experience managing highly available infrastructure; familiarity with GCP preferred but not mandatory * High developer empathy. Passionate about improving developer tooling and processes * Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams through planning and execution of large technical projects that span multiple quarters * Strong communication and interpersonal skills to provide clear direction, set expectations, and provide actionable feedback * Ability to navigate ambiguity and tackle problems with high agency and resilience. Well-suited to lead in a startup environment * Commitment to fostering an inclusive team culture that empowers team members from all backgrounds A final note - we highly encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don't feel entirely qualified, or entirely sure. You never know! (This role is eligible for sponsorship)