Technical Lead Manager, Platform Engineering (Developer Experience)

Multi Media, LLC is the company behind Chaturbate, a heavily trafficked live streaming platform. They are seeking a Technical Lead Manager to lead their Platform Engineering team, focusing on building platform capabilities that support internal software engineers through CI/CD, automation, and developer tooling.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain scalable CI/CD systems, self-service workflows, and platform capabilities that support our engineering organization
• Lead and develop a team of 2-4 Platform Engineers through 1:1s, mentoring, goal-setting, and performance management
• Own technical architecture decisions for platform systems by designing solutions that balance developer experience, reliability, and operational simplicity
• Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to drive platform adoption and embed security, reliability, and compliance into workflows
• Drive hiring efforts by refining candidate profiles, interview rubrics, and ensuring assessments validate real-world platform engineering skills
• Foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement where engineers are empowered to propose and drive solutions
• Ensure operational health of platform systems through incident response practices, SLAs, and systematic technical debt reduction
• Champion standardization by establishing golden paths for infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and observability
• Automate! Aim to automate as much as possible so engineers can focus on building - not maintaining or doing tedious manual work

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
• 2+ years of experience as a tech lead or team lead, engineering manager, or Tech Lead Manager for infrastructure/platform/Engineering teams, or clear evidence of leading complex platform initiatives and mentoring engineers
• Strong practical experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI) including pipeline design, performance optimization, and secrets management
• Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in production environments
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm) and solid grasp of cloud infrastructure concepts
• Proficiency in at least one language commonly used for tooling and backend work (Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to balance strategic planning with hands-on execution
• Strong communication skills, particularly when explaining technical trade-offs and constraints to cross-functional partners
• Experience building and operating self-hosted CI/CD runner infrastructure
• Track record of driving platform adoption across large engineering organizations
• Background in security automation or compliance tooling
• Experience with observability platforms and debugging distributed systems