Manager, Embedded Platform Engineering

Charlotte · USD 160,000-192,500 / year · 7+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 9, 2026

At a glance

Scout Motors is seeking a Manager, Embedded Platform Engineering to lead a team focused on making platform engineering successful where it matters most: with the engineering teams building and operating our products.
The team partners directly with product, application, data, integration, and other engineering teams to adopt and evolve shared platform capabilities.
This is a high-profile, highly collaborative leadership role with significant visibility across the technology organization, engaging with engineering leaders, architects, product teams, security, and infrastructure stakeholders to execute platform strategy.

Lead, coach, and develop a team of platform engineers working directly with engineering organizations.
Establish clear technical direction, priorities, engineering standards, and expectations for the team.
Partner directly with engineering teams to understand delivery challenges and help them adopt common platform capabilities and practices.
Embed platform engineers with teams when needed to accelerate adoption and establish sustainable engineering patterns.
Promote paved roads and golden paths that make secure, reliable, and supportable delivery the easiest option for engineers.
Reduce unnecessary cognitive load and friction in infrastructure provisioning, software builds, deployments, observability, and production operations.
Provide technical leadership for AWS-based platform architecture and cloud-native engineering.
Guide teams in adopting modern CI/CD and GitOps practices using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Kargo.
Drive Infrastructure as Code and platform automation using Terraform and Crossplane.
Develop strong relationships with engineering managers, product leaders, architects, security teams, infrastructure teams, and senior technology leaders.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
7+ years of relevant experience
Experience leading, developing, and mentoring engineers in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or a related discipline
Experience managing engineers who work across multiple product teams, technical domains, or organizational boundaries
Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures
Deep understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and modern software-delivery practices
Hands-on experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions
Deep production experience with Kubernetes, including designing, deploying, operating, troubleshooting, and evolving Kubernetes-based platforms supporting business-critical workloads
Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Experience with observability, telemetry, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting practices, including OpenTelemetry or comparable technologies

Experience leading an embedded, enablement, consulting, or platform-adoption engineering team
Experience building or operating an internal developer platform
Experience establishing golden paths, paved roads, service templates, or self-service engineering capabilities
Experience leading organizational adoption of GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, observability, or SRE practices
Experience working with Backstage or another internal developer portal
Understanding of software-supply-chain security and cloud-native security practices
Experience developing metrics for platform adoption, developer satisfaction, delivery performance, reliability, and operational health
Experience with AI-assisted software delivery or developer-productivity tools

Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
401(k) program with an employer match and immediate vesting
20 days planned PTO, as accrued
40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave
Corporate Vehicle Program with eligibility for 1 assigned vehicle and a mobility stipend
Annual performance bonus program

This role requires 4-5 days per week in the office, with regular in-person meetings and events.
Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.
This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City.

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