Manager, Platform Engineering

About Us

Endor Labs is building the Application Security platform for the software development revolution. Modern software is complex and dependency-rich, making it increasingly difficult to pinpoint the risks that truly matter. Endor Labs solves this challenge by building a call graph of your entire software estate - enabling teams to clearly identify, prioritize, and fix critical risks faster.

Trusted by companies that are one or one hundred years old, Endor Labs secures code whether it was written by humans or AI, and whether it's 40-year old C++ code or cutting-edge Bazel Monorepos. Endor Labs was founded by serial entrepreneurs Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, and is backed by leading VC firms such as Dell Technology Capital, Lightspeed, and Sierra Ventures.

About the Role

We're looking for a Manager of Platform Engineering to lead and grow our small but mighty Platform Engineering team. You'll step in as a player-coach - someone who isn't afraid to get hands-on in the infrastructure, write Terraform, debug a Kubernetes issue, or triage an incident - while also building the team and the systems we'll need at the next stage of Endor Labs' growth.

This role is ideal for a technical leader who thrives in a scrappy, fast-moving startup environment, can operate with ambiguity, and is excited by the challenge of building both a team and a platform from the ground up.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead and Grow the Team: Manage a team of 3 engineers today, with a clear mandate to grow. You'll hire, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement - all without losing the startup speed that makes us who we are.
• Be the Technical Anchor: Roll up your sleeves and contribute directly - whether that's reviewing infrastructure PRs, stepping in during an outage, or pairing with an engineer on a gnarly Kubernetes networking problem. You'll set the technical bar through your own work, not just directives.
• Own Platform Strategy: Define and execute the roadmap for our cloud infrastructure across Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS. Balance near-term reliability and operational needs with longer-term scalability investments as we grow rapidly.
• Drive Reliability and Scale: Ensure the platform that processes billions of security events daily remains highly available and performant. Establish SLOs, incident response practices, and on-call processes that scale with the team.
• Elevate Developer Experience: Partner with Backend and Product Engineering to build self-service tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and golden-path abstractions that help every engineer at Endor Labs ship faster and more safely.
• Advance Infrastructure as Code: Champion GitOps and IaC best practices across Terraform/OpenTofu deployments. Build reusable patterns and raise the bar for how we manage our entire cloud footprint.
• Collaborate Across the Company: Work closely with Security, Product, and Engineering leadership to align platform investments with business priorities. Translate technical constraints into clear tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead Our Agentic Engineering Transformation: Serve as the internal thought leader for how Endor Labs builds and ships software in an AI-native world. The Platform team is at the center of this shift - defining the infrastructure, tooling, and practices that let engineering teams harness AI agents effectively and safely. This is a greenfield space where you will set the direction, build conviction across the company, and make it real.
• Build for the Future: Make architectural decisions today that won't box us in tomorrow. Think ahead to 10x growth, but pragmatically sequence the work so we keep shipping.

What You Bring to the Table

• People Management Experience: You've managed engineers before - hired, onboarded, grown, and sometimes had hard conversations. You know what good looks like and can develop talent, not just direct it.
• Hands-On Platform Engineering Chops: 8+ years of SRE or Platform Engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to get