Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

First American is seeking candidates for a leadership role in Platform Engineering. An ideal candidate has strong technical expertise, a product mindset, and takes a hands‑on approach to driving engineering best practices.

• Technical Leadership
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  Provide vision and technical leadership to guide a team of engineers in designing, delivering, and supporting a robust set of APIs and back‑end services. Use architectural principles and implement modern, secure engineering practices that are scalable, highly available, and fault‑tolerant. Engage directly when needed to remove obstacles, manage work breakdown, prioritization, and backlog.
• Collaborate/Partner
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  Work with product management, software engineering, platform, and other cross‑functional teams and leaders to iteratively design, develop, and validate outcome‑driven technology solutions. Enable adoption of delivered solutions and contribute to organization‑wide initiatives.
• People Leadership & Development
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  Mentor, coach, train, and support your team and others in their careers and personal growth.
• Quality & Security Focused
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  Drive implementation of technically sound solutions that meet all quality and security standards.
• Continuous Improvement
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  Lead the team in achieving ambitious goals, providing regular feedback, and driving continuous improvement.

• 3‑5 years managing cloud and platform engineering teams in a fast‑paced environment.
• 6+ years building HA and DR solutions in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Proven track record of delivering fit‑for‑purpose solutions balancing complexity, performance, and maintainability.
• Leadership skills to mobilize and motivate a high‑functioning engineering team.
• Empathy for unblocking software engineering teams and a balanced approach between Platform Engineering principles and modern Infrastructure Operations.
• Ability to architect and design robust, high‑scale systems and challenge engineers to think generically.
• Knowledge of life‑cycle practices: coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience mentoring engineers at various levels and supporting career growth.
• Metrics‑driven approach to development productivity (e.g., code churn, commit size, test coverage).
• Effective verbal and written communication, strong relationship, collaboration, and organization skills.

• Automation and scripting:
  Git Hub Actions, Python, Bash, Power Shell.
• Containerized development:
  Docker.
• Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure automation tooling:
  Terraform, Ansible.
• Azure, AWS, and GCP specific services (detailed list omitted for brevity).
• Experience in highly regulated industries such as Financial Services or Healthcare.

• Pay Range: $ – $ annually.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO, paid sick leave, and employee stock purchase plan.
• First American is an equal‑opportunity employer and complies with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance.