Engineering Manager, Infrastructure - Formation Bio

About the Position

As the Engineering Manager for Infrastructure at Formation Bio, you will lead the team responsible for the reliability, security, and operational foundation of our engineering organization. You will set technical direction, develop a high-performing team, and create the systems and operating practices that allow engineers to ship quickly and safely. You're accountable for the pace, reliability, and quality of the systems your team builds and operates, and for creating the conditions in which engineers can grow, perform at a high level, and sustain that performance over time.

Formation Bio is an AI-native engineering organization, and Infrastructure has a central role in defining what that means operationally. You and your team will develop the systems, access patterns, guardrails, delivery workflows, and observability needed for engineers and agents to build and operate production software safely. We are looking for a leader with a credible point of view on how infrastructure and software delivery should evolve as AI-assisted and agent-authored code becomes a larger part of our systems.

You do not need to have solved every aspect of the agentic SDLC already, but you should be actively exploring the space and capable of turning emerging practices into reliable engineering systems.

You will partner closely with engineering, data science, tech ops, security, and domain experts across the drug development organization, representing Infrastructure and SRE in cross-functional planning and promoting strong reliability practices throughout the company.

This position is ideal for a manager who leads from the front: someone who is passionate about developing engineers, sets an urgent, high bar for the team's pace and quality, and is restless about finding the next thing that's slowing the org down before it becomes a blocker. Your experience with engineering management, technical leadership, and infrastructure operations will be instrumental in driving Formation Bio's mission to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.

• Hire, coach, and develop a team of infrastructure and site reliability engineers, including setting goals, delivering feedback, and managing performance.
• Set the technical direction and roadmap for infrastructure and SRE, prioritizing work across reliability, security, cost, and developer experience in partnership with engineering leadership. Build operating practices and paved paths that allow the team to meet the pace required by the broader organization without compromising reliability or security.