Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
Join Our Journey at Engine
At Engine, we’re revolutionizing work travel. Our modern travel platform isn’t just about booking trips; it’s about transforming how businesses and their teams experience travel. From seamless booking options with top airlines, hotels, and car rental providers to single-invoice billing and flexible trip modifications, we make travel not only easier to manage but also enjoyable. Backed by powerhouse investors like Telescope Partners, Blackstone, Elefund, and Permira, we’re growing fast—and we want you to be part of it.
Your Mission:
The Engine Infrastructure and Security (InfraSec) group is working to provide a cloud ecosystem where building new services or environments is automatic and economical for the business, and where integrated cloud services create leverage, velocity, and quality for our engineers. As the Senior Engineering Manager for the Infrastructure Systems team, you will lead the design, delivery, and operation of cloud environments, service infrastructure, build/deploy, and ecosystem services. You will be responsible for hiring, mentoring, and empowering a high-performing team of engineers, driving technical excellence, and ensuring scalable and reliable infrastructure that accelerates development across the organization.
What You’ll Bring to Engine:
We’re looking for someone who’s ready to make an impact and grow alongside us:
- Experience: 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, infrastructure engineer, or DevOps engineer, with at least 3 years leading and managing software development or infrastructure teams. Proven ability to hire, coach, and develop engineers while driving high performance through effective feedback and performance management. Strong experience organizing and leading agile software development processes, managing projects from inception to delivery while ensuring velocity, quality, and alignment with business goals. Skilled in defining and maintaining a technical roadmap, balancing short-term execution with long-term strategy to build scalable, reliable infrastructure.
- Technical Skillset:
- Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform and familiarity with declarative frameworks such as CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Pulumi.
- Containerization: Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for managing and orchestrating containerized applications.
- Observability: Knowledge of logging, monitoring, metrics, and alerting systems to ensure system reliability and performance.
- Configuration Management & Service Discovery: Understanding of data organization, partitioning, storage, retrieval, and leveraging automation tools for orchestration.
- CI/CD: Experience working with build, deploy, and artifact management tools to support efficient software delivery pipelines.
- Security & Compliance (Bonus): Familiarity with security systems, data governance, and compliance frameworks.
Mindset: Results-driven leader who takes ownership of outcomes, prioritizes business value, and helps teams focus and execute. A strong communicator and consensus builder who effectively manages stakeholders. Leads by example with a strong work ethic, high standards, and a practical approach to balancing tradeoffs. Committed to coaching and fostering team growth while driving performance.
Cash compensation: The base salary range for this role is $190,000 to $230,000. Final compensation packages are determined by various factors, including prior experience and expertise. This role is also eligible to receive equity compensation.
The Engine Edge: Perks & Compensation
We believe in rewarding great work with great benefits:
- Compensation: Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
- Benefits: Check out our full list at engine.com/culture.
- Environments for Success: Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we’ll make sure you have what you need to succeed.
Ready to Build the Future of Work Travel?
Join us on our mission to transform how work travel works—for businesses, for travelers, and for the industry. Apply now and let’s make travel simpler, smarter, and more enjoyable—together.
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