Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering

Seattle, WA, United States

At PitchBook, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company.

Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means there’s going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We’re willing to take risks, fail fast, and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence.

If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, PitchBook is the place for you.

About the Role:

As a member of the Product and Engineering team at PitchBook, you will be part of a team of big thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and our company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation.

We know that greatness is achieved through collaboration and diverse points of view, so we work closely with partners around the globe. As a team, we assume positive intent in each other’s words and actions, value constructive discussions, and foster a respectful working environment built on integrity, growth, and business value. We invest heavily in our people, who are eager to learn and constantly improve. Join our team and grow with us!

As an Engineering Manager, Platform in PitchBook’s engineering division, you will be leading a group of highly motivated engineers in charge of empowering their peers, by creating tools and services that optimize all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). You will be essential in helping to build exceptional solutions relied upon and used by more than a hundred PitchBook software development engineers every day. Your target will be to drive value for our developers by removing bottlenecks and building tools that optimize the speed, quantity, and quality of all processes and systems participating in the SDLC.

With your strong analytical skills, you will break down abstract and complex problems into smaller problems. You will teach your team strong decision-making skills, iterative development processes, how to collaborate across teams, and how to become learning oriented. A crucial part of this role is career growth and development of our SDEs. You will be expected to devise solutions based on limited information and precedent to find creative ways to tackle challenges. It is essential that you be able to interpret, assess, and resolve a wide range of issues and be able to select the right course of action.

Your ability to collaborate with software development managers, provide leadership across multiple locations, set a high bar for our team members, and hire, train, and retain exceptional talent in the organization, will be critical to your success. You will solicit feedback, engage others with empathy, build leaders on your teams, and help create a culture of belonging, teamwork, and purpose.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Lead the platform team direction and execution (operations, processes, practices, and standards) and code quality across the organization, working closely with engineering leadership and product management to craft roadmaps and achieve success criteria

Bridges the gap between business/product needs and execution, including building and delivering on group-level objectives and key results, identifying resource needs, and building execution plans for initiatives

Ensures platform roadmap items are delivered on time and with exceptional quality

Serve as a force multiplier for development teams by removing roadblocks, implementing process improvements, providing frequent and actionable feedback to team members, and building practices for ideation and innovation

Learn constantlyand be passionate about discovering new tools, technologies, libraries, and frameworks (commercial and opensource), that can be leveraged within your team's domain

Describe technical context in intuitive ways for different audiences, adapt communication from highly technical deep dives with engineers to non-technical dialogue with executive stakeholders

Establishes and drives a culture founded on creating belonging, psychological safety, candor, connection, cooperation, and fun

Understands how to apply agile, lean, and principles of fast flow to team efficiency and productivity

Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors

Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

Skills and Qualifications:

Master of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field

7+ years in Software Development or Engineering roles

3+ years in an engineering leadership role with direct management responsibilities of at least five people

3+ years of hands-on coding and delivering large-scale systems as a Software Developer

Highly experienced in leading a software development team in an Agile environment

Experience with containerization technologies, including Kubernetes and Docker

Understanding of how to build for cloud-scale delivery, including scalability, resiliency, and recoverability

Has successfully delivered on large technical initiatives from scoping to launch, with a strong metrics focus

Excellent communication skills, written and verbal

Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite including in-depth knowledge of Outlook, Word, and Excel with the ability to pick up new systems and software easily

Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook:

Physical Health

Comprehensive health benefits

Additional medical wellness incentives

STD, LTD, AD&D, and life insurance

Emotional Health

Paid sabbatical program after four years

Paid family and paternity leave

Annual educational stipend

Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement

CFA exam stipend

Robust training programs on industry and soft skills

Employee assistance program

Generous allotment of vacation days, sick days, and volunteer days

Social Health

Matching gifts program

Employee resource groups

Subsidized emergency childcare

Dependent Care FSA

Company-wide events

Employee referral bonus program

Quarterly team building events

Financial Health

401k match

Shared ownership employee stock program

Monthly transportation stipend

Please be aware the above PitchBook benefit and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of your employment.

Compensation

Annual base salary: $220,000-$250,000

Target annual bonus percentage: 15%

Starting pay will be based on several factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. We also have a location-based compensation structure; there may be different ranges for candidates by location.

Working Conditions:

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.

Life At PB:

We are consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work and our culture is at the heart of our success. It’s our fundamental belief that people do and create great things and that people are the cornerstone of prosperity. We believe that proactively seeking out different points of view, listening to others, learning, and reflecting on what we’ve heard creates a sense of belonging within PitchBook and strengthens the PitchBook community.

We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement? We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at PitchBook.

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