Engineering Manager, Platform

Cartesia
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 250,000 - 375,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["People leadership","Coaching","Performance management","Technical leadership","Cross-functional alignment"]

Lead Cartesia’s Platform engineering team as a hands-on technical and people manager. Build and grow a team of 7+ engineers, own the team’s roadmap and delivery outcomes, and provide technical leadership on architecture, design reviews, complex problems, and production incidents. Partner with Product and Research to align on priorities, and ensure the systems scale ahead of the business with performance, reliability, and engineering quality.

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Engineering Manager, Platform

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Job Summary

Lead Cartesia’s Platform engineering team as a hands-on technical and people manager. Build and grow a team of 7+ engineers, own the team’s roadmap and delivery outcomes, and provide technical leadership on architecture, design reviews, complex problems, and production incidents. Partner with Product and Research to align on priorities, and ensure the systems scale ahead of the business with performance, reliability, and engineering quality.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
  • •Own the team’s roadmap, decisions, and outcomes, setting priorities and driving a high shipping cadence.
  • •Provide technical leadership across architecture, design reviews, complex technical problems, and production incidents.
  • •Develop deep understanding of team systems and tradeoffs to challenge assumptions and unblock the team.
  • •Partner with Product, Research, and other teams to deliver against company priorities while ensuring systems scale ahead of the business.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 375,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionParental Leave401kCommuter BenefitsPaid LeaveMeal Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •Experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams, including coaching, performance management, and career growth.
  • •Strong technical depth and engineering judgment to engage in architecture and technical decisions.
  • •Track record leading teams to deliver complex technical projects in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
  • •Strong ownership and prioritization skills, balancing near-term execution with longer-term investments.
  • •Experience building large-scale distributed systems with high performance, reliability, and observability demands.
Experience:Large-scale distributed systemsPerformance engineeringReliability engineering
Skills:People leadershipCoachingPerformance managementTechnical leadershipCross-functional alignment

Company Brief

Cartesia
Builds real-time multimodal and voice AI (Sonic) that generates expressive, low-latency speech for conversational agents and on-device experiences, serving developers and enterprises with APIs and SDKs.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2023
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