Quick Summary
Laravel is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our all-remote Laravel Cloud Infrastructure organization. Our mission is to enhance the developer experience globally. We achieve this by building exceptional software products and investing in a world-class infrastructure foundation and the talented individuals who power it.
We are tackling ambitious infrastructure challenges and require a leader to drive success. This role focuses on developing leaders, guiding technical direction across multiple teams, and cultivating an environment where engineers excel.
As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead the Infrastructure organization responsible for the recently launched Laravel Cloud platform. This fully managed infrastructure platform is optimized for Laravel and PHP, designed for developers and teams to rapidly deploy their innovations. You will oversee the organization's execution through a team of Engineering Team Leads, fostering their growth and their teams' development, while ensuring the platform's reliability, scalability, and user delight.
Location: Optimal collaboration with the team requires presence between EU West and US East time zones.
About the Role
We are searching for a Senior Engineering Manager to head our Infrastructure organization, which forms the core foundation of our developer-focused cloud platform. You will manage four Engineering Team Leads, each responsible for their own area and team of senior infrastructure engineers. This encompasses platform components such as Kubernetes (EKS), AWS, networking, storage, observability, and internal infrastructure services.
This position includes oversight of our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice, led by our SRE Team Lead. This covers on-call rotations, incident response, and the reliability engineering efforts crucial for maintaining platform availability and performance for our customers.
You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and leadership to deliver a platform developers value, while promoting technical excellence, operational maturity, and organizational health across your teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed team of Engineering Team Leads, including Infrastructure and SRE leads.
- Establish standards for how leads manage, develop, and grow their engineers.
- Cultivate an engineering culture emphasizing autonomy, ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Support career development through 1:1s, goal setting, and consistent feedback for direct reports and the wider organization.
- Collaborate with leadership to define strategy, resourcing, and roadmap for the infrastructure organization.
- Own reliability, availability, and performance outcomes across the platform, including SRE practices (on-call, incident response, SLOs/SLIs).
- Drive the adoption of infrastructure best practices like GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and security.
- Partner with product teams to shape and define requirements for upcoming projects.
- Clearly communicate technical direction and priorities to leads, engineers, leadership, and stakeholders.
- Work with other engineering leaders to ensure seamless platform experiences.
How We’ll Know You’re Succeeding (The 12-Month View)
In Your First 30 Days
You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Infrastructure organization and platform's current state, including direct engagement with each Engineering Team Lead and their teams. Based on these insights, you will formulate strong opinions and a concrete plan for future collaboration with leads and leadership.
In Your First 90 Days
You will have made a significant impact, influencing and potentially restructuring organizational processes. You will have identified key team pain points and communicated them clearly to all stakeholders. Additionally, you will have initiated talent retention, development, and acquisition efforts across the organization.
In Your First 12 Months
You will have demonstrated clear, decisive ownership of the Infrastructure engineering organization, including its SRE practice. You will have successfully implemented clear, effective processes for organizational success and developed your Engineering Team Leads into stronger leaders. Ultimately, you will have instilled a level of professionalism that enables elite performance without chaos, resulting in a reliable, scalable, and delightful Laravel Cloud platform.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience leading infrastructure engineering organizations, including managing other engineering managers or team leads (manager-of-managers experience).
- Deep understanding of what individuals and their leaders need to perform at their best.
- Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices: on-call design, incident response, and reliability/availability frameworks (SLOs/SLIs).
- Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes in production environments.
- Familiarity with the operator pattern (Go).
- Strong understanding of AWS services, including EKS, VPC/networking fundamentals, and IAM and security architecture.
- Experience running large-scale distributed systems with high availability.
- Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, or similar).
- Strong communication and leadership skills to align teams and leaders, unblock engineers, and advance projects.
Benefits
- Small, tight-knit team where every developer's contribution is valued.
- Fully remote and globally distributed working environment.
- Opportunity to attend Laracon conferences worldwide.
- Comprehensive health care plan (Medical, Dental & Vision).
- Paid time off (Vacation, Sick & Public holidays).
- Family leave (Maternity, Paternity).
- Pension plans (as locally applicable).
- Performance-based bonus plan.
- Company equity.