Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering; Developer

Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

Location:

Oakland, California, United States

Everlaw is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform to lead teams focused on developer experience and developer productivity
, enabling engineers to ship high‑quality software quickly, safely, and ’ll own roadmaps for internal platforms and tooling (build/test systems, CI/CD, environments, and workflows) and collaborate across the org to deliver measurable efficiency gains.

Engineering is the backbone of the Everlaw Platform. We build features and functionality into the product and its supporting cloud infrastructure systems and ensure its smooth functioning. We also provide data and insights to the rest of Everlaw. At our core, we like to build and enjoy the creative process of building software that is smart, that works well, that scales well, and that is reliable and secure.

We do this by supporting and empowering our team members to do their best work, by tackling challenging and complex engineering problems and by nurturing and supporting each team member through mentoring, coaching, and comprehensive feedback.

Everlaw’s mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. Our culture is open and vibrant and we’re committed to the professional growth of our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular check‑ins with managers regarding career goals. We value passion, integrity, and a desire to learn. If you think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you!

This is a full‑time position based in our Oakland, California office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home Tu/Fr.

Everlaw helps law firms, government agencies, and corporations sift through millions of documents of evidence in large lawsuits and investigations. We manage hundreds of terabytes of data and work with all 50 state Attorneys General and numerous law firms on high‑profile cases.

• Lead platform teams that build and evolve core internal platforms and developer tooling—spanning build/test infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer workflows—to improve engineer productivity and time‑to‑value.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering Operations, Security Engineering, Dev Ops, Product, and Design to synthesize requirements and prioritize impactful investments.
• Drive road‑mapping, resourcing, and execution for critical platform areas that make it better and cheaper to develop, test, and release software.
• Establish and use developer efficiency metrics (e.g., build/test times, deploy lead time, change failure rate) to identify bottlenecks and plan ambitious improvements to workflows.
• Ensure operational excellence for platform services and tooling with clear SLOs, robust observability, and incident/bug management practices.
• Coach and develop engineers and leads; provide actionable feedback, elevate technical execution, and foster an inclusive, high‑accountability culture.
• Partner with Engineering Operations to improve processes for alignment, goal setting, empowerment, and cross‑team execution across Engineering.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, adjusting altitude from strategy to technical deep dives as needed.

• You have at least 5 years as a senior engineer building developer productivity tools and/or highly available platform services (e.g., storage, pub‑sub, search, caching, observability) and/or deep experience with infrastructure/cloud technologies (e.g., Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker).
• You have 3+ years of experience directly managing software engineers and/or technical leads, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and growing a high‑performing team.
• You have 2+ years of experience building and leading developer experience or platform teams/programs that deliver internal platforms and tooling with measurable productivity outcomes (e.g., faster builds/tests, improved CI/CD lead times, higher deployment frequency).
• You have experience managing scalable database infrastructure (e.g., Postgres, MySQL or equivalent).
• You can communicate at the right altitude with both technical and non‑technical…