Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering (Developer Experience)

Everlaw is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform to lead teams focused on developer experience, developer productivity, and AI-powered developer tooling, enabling engineers to ship high-quality software quickly, safely, and at scale.

You'll own roadmaps for build/test infrastructure, CI, local development environments, and developer workflows. You'll also own the strategy and execution for AI-assisted and autonomous developer tooling: evaluating, building, and deploying the tools that automate mechanical work so engineers can focus on higher-value problems.

This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and AI. We're investing in a future where agents actively participate in our SDLC: automating test triage, lint fixes, code review, and eventually broader development tasks. That future requires a solid foundation: reliable CI, fast feedback loops, observable infrastructure, and tooling that engineers actually want to use. You'll own both sides — making the developer platform trustworthy enough for agents to run on, and shipping the AI-powered tooling that multiplies engineer output.

About the Team

The Platform Engineering org is driving a multi-phase program to make Everlaw's SDLC agent-ready: from stabilizing CI reliability and developer feedback loops, to shipping autonomous agent workflows in secure sandboxed environments, to enabling agents as first-class contributors to our codebase. Your team will be a key driver of this program, working alongside Release Engineering (which owns release and deploy paths) and the AI Platform team.

About Everlaw

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 company 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. If you're looking for a place that values passion, integrity, thinking big, and a desire to learn, we'd love to hear from you! Think you're missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the 'perfect' candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team.

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.

Getting started

• We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals. [And you’ll spend meaningful time getting to know your direct reports and discover what excites and challenges them.]
• We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1.

In your role, you'll...

Stabilize & Mature the Developer Platform

• Lead platform teams that build and evolve core developer tooling (spanning build/test infrastructure, CI, local development environments, and developer workflows) to improve engineer productivity and time-to-value.
• Drive reliability improvements across the developer-facing critical path: reduce CI flakiness, improve build/test speed, and ensure fast, reliable feedback loops for both human and agent-generated changes.
• Partner with Release Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure on shared goals: your team ensures the build/test foundation is solid; they own the release and deploy paths that depend on it.
• Ensure operational excellence for developer platform services with clear SLOs, robust observability, and incident/bug management practices.

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