Engineering Manager - Core Infra
AI summary of the role
Cinder is hiring an Engineering Manager to own the Core Infra team, which builds the platform and infrastructure that judges the safety of much of the internet's user-generated content.
What you’ll do
- Own the health, direction, and delivery of the Core Infra team end to end.
- Set clear priorities and a roadmap that engineers understand, including what not to do.
- Raise the bar on team-level execution quality, reducing regressions and last-minute surprises.
- Build a team that self-organizes, triages, and shares work across itself and other teams.
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years building production software with at least 4 years in a startup environment, managing platform engineers directly.
- Deep familiarity with high-throughput, data-intensive systems, workflow/automation engines, or AI-powered platforms in production.
- Track record of turning a group of individual contributors into a high-performing team.
- Strong technical skills to lead architecture discussions and review work credibly; fluent with AI tooling.
Technologies
AI agents · workflow engines · automation engines · high-throughput systems · data-intensive systems · AI-powered platforms · full stack · DORA · SLIs/SLOs · Trust & Safety
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
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About Cinder Cinder is the mission-critical infrastructure that keeps the world's most important digital platforms true to what they stand for. The internet has always been abused by bad actors, and AI is making it exponentially worse, driving fraud, abuse, and manipulation at a scale and speed no human team can fight alone. Cinder gives platforms one command center to fight back: to write and enforce policy, deploy AI agents against abuse in real time, investigate threats, file NCMEC reports, and prove their safety programs are working. Our customers are some of the largest internet platforms in the world. The decisions made in our software directly determine what stays up, what comes down, and how users are treated. We're a small, fast-moving team backed by Accel and Y Combinator. We care about being intentional, direct, and deeply focused on solving real customer problems. Why this role Cinder’s Core Infrastructure team builds the platform and infrastructure that judges the safety of much of the user-generated content on the internet. This journey requires extreme focus and ruthless prioritization. We have talented engineers working across agents, workflows, review tooling, platform reliability, and data, but execution quality and prioritization still depend too much on individuals self-managing their priorities rather than teams that run themselves. We're hiring an Eng [... source excerpt omitted ...] rganizes around problems. Management is the heart of this role, but it isn't a process-only job. Most of your time will go into leading, coaching, and unblocking your team, while you will stay close enough to the code to contribute directly, lead architecture discussions credibly, and earn your engineers' trust as a technical peer. You'll report to our Head of Engineering and have real influence on how we build out engineering leadership as the org scales. What you'll work on You'll own the health, direction, and delivery of the Core Infra team. In practice that means: Setting clear priorities and a roadmap your team understands. Engineers should know what they're working on, [... source excerpt omitted ...] d execution. Raising the bar on team-level execution quality. Not just shipping features, but shipping them with fewer regressions, clear ownership, and no last-minute surprises. You'll find the inefficiencies slowing your team down and fix them before they become someone's bad on-call week. Building a team that self-organizes. Individual heroics create single points of failure and burnout risk. You'll grow and evolve a team that can triage and share work across itself and with other teams. Coaching and developing engineers. You’ll set clear expectations against role and provide direct, constructive feedback promptly and empathetically. People should always know how they're
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