[Remote] Engineering Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Playlist is building a platform for intentional living that connects people with experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. The Engineering Manager will lead a newer platform team, establish scalable foundations and standard interfaces across the organization, and guide technical strategy, architecture, execution, and collaboration across engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Coach and empower your engineering team to deliver high levels of technical quality and business impact
• Actively participate in strategic direction and product decisions for your team
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of the Playlist engineering management team
• Make critical architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term system flexibility
• Establish clear goals, prioritize resources, and guide team execution through complex, ambiguous challenges
• Collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams to design and deliver a robust standard contact solution that serves a variety of verticals and CRM use cases

Skills

• You are an experienced engineer who has successfully transitioned into a people leader, passionate about building and operating reliable, scalable cloud platforms and developer infrastructure that empower engineering teams
• You possess extensive experience in at least one aspect of developing a world-class cloud platform and can effectively manage a high-performing team throughout the entire process
• 3+ years of direct management experience with an engineering team of at least 6 members with skills across the stack
• Proven track record and hands-on experience designing, data-modeling, and building production cloud platforms (AWS) at scale
• Strong grounding in infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, with operational rigor across incident response, observability, networking, identity, compute, and storage at scale
• Proven ability to establish and articulate a vision, set goals, and execute effectively
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to cross-functional stakeholders
• Demonstrated success in establishing technical vision and driving measurable outcomes

Benefits

• Bonus target
• Full benefits package

Company Overview

Playlist is the parent company that operates various physical and mental fitness tech companies. It was founded in 2026, and is headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.playlist.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Playlist has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.