Software Engineering Manager (Software Platform)

Join Muon as a Software Engineering Manager to lead our Software Platform team. This team is essential for the growth and success of our software engineering organization, as it builds and operates the infrastructure that supports our internal tools and customer-facing products. You will be responsible for scaling the team, defining goals and technical roadmaps, ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical services, and promoting a culture of technical ownership and continuous improvement.

• Lead, mentor, and grow the Software Platform team, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and team composition.
• Define team goals and technical roadmaps that align with company priorities, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical services.
• Drive engineering best practices, manage team capacity, staffing, and growth, and promote a culture of technical ownership and continuous improvement.
• Ability to hold clear ownership boundaries, comfortable saying "no" to work that belongs to product teams while still being a great partner to them
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years managing software engineering teams building and operating production systems
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, backend services, or platform development, with hands-on depth in Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS
• Track record of establishing paved roads / Golden Paths and treating internal platforms as products, with developers as customers
• Experience running a DevOps or SRE function embedded within a platform team (rather than as a separate silo), consistent with our team model
• Experience defining technical direction and driving execution through a team, including prioritization, roadmap ownership, and stakeholder alignment
• Direct experience managing a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE team, including responsibility for hiring, performance management, coaching senior engineers, and shaping team composition
• Demonstrated experience supporting production systems with real uptime, reliability, and performance requirements (SLOs, on-call, incident response, postmortems)
• Strong communication skills and comfort partnering with cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, security, and IT/information systems
• Experience scaling a platform team through a period of rapid organizational growth
• Familiarity with Cloudflare, Artifactory, IAM/Okta, InfluxDB, or Grafana-based observability stacks
• Experience leading data engineering or data platform work as part of a broader platform team
• Familiarity with aerospace, satellite operations, or other high-reliability / mission-critical domains
• Experience partnering closely with information security teams on platform-level controls (IAM, secrets management, supply chain)
• Hands-on experience with Bazel or another large-scale monorepo build system
• We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application!
• This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process