Specialty
The role
Zocdoc, a healthcare booking marketplace, is hiring a Senior Platform Engineering Manager to lead a portfolio of platform teams covering backend platforms, AI development platforms, developer tooling and shared services. The role leads through managers and senior and staff engineers.
What you will do
- Lead and grow Platform Engineering teams through managers and senior and staff engineers
- Set multi-year portfolio strategy and make investment, sequencing and sunset decisions
- Resolve cross-team trade-offs on sequencing, reliability and operations
- Set safe, measurable patterns for AI-assisted development with privacy, security and quality guardrails
- Treat platforms as products, drive adoption and simplify migrations
- Own portfolio reliability, on-call practices and learning from incidents
What they ask for
- 10+ years building and shipping software, grounded in platform, infrastructure or software engineering
- 4+ years leading multiple teams, including through managers
- Deep expertise in a platform domain such as developer platforms, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure or shared services
- Strong judgment in distributed systems, architecture, reliability and security
- Record of treating internal platforms as products and measuring impact
- Experience coaching engineers and managers, including performance management
- Experience evaluating or integrating AI tooling into engineering workflows
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Zocdoc's careers page behind the apply button.
