Engineering Manager - Core Infra

Written by the T&S Network from Cinder's posting.

Engineering management for the Core Infra team at Cinder, which builds the platform that judges the safety of user-generated content for large internet platforms. The team owns shared systems such as the graph service, CI/CD and core developer tooling, and the manager sets its priorities and coordinates its work with the rest of the company.

What you'd do

• Set and communicate the team's roadmap, including what it will not do, tied to business context.
• Run the intake process for requests coming into Core Infra and triage, route and prioritize them openly.
• Act as the main point of contact for go-to-market, field engineering, customer experience and other cross-functional groups.
• Coach engineers, set role expectations and give direct, prompt feedback on progress.
• Define SLIs and SLOs for team systems and address reliability and tech-debt issues before incidents.
• Pick up technical work alongside the team when useful, without becoming a blocker.

What it asks for

• 8+ years building production software, with at least 4 years in a startup environment.
• Experience directly managing platform engineers and growing individual contributors.
• Background running large-volume data systems, workflow engines, or AI-driven products in live use.
• Experience managing full stack engineers.
• Track record of running a high-performing team using metrics, balancing velocity and quality.
• Technical credibility to lead architecture discussions with staff-level engineers.
• Fluency with AI tooling in how teams build software.

Worth knowing

• Team is distributed across London and the US East Coast, with the company based in NYC.

Terms in this role

NCMEC.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a US nonprofit. It runs the CyberTipline, where US-based online services must report apparent child sexual abuse material they find.

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