engineering
Posted May 11Manager, Platform Engineering
at Natera
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Establish the North Star: Take over a high-performing team and refine the strategic roadmap for our cloud and event-streaming services. •
- Deliver with Precision: Close out high-impact, in-flight projects while maintaining the stability and reliability of our production environments. •
- Drive Customer Success: Achieve high internal satisfaction scores by treating the platform as a world-class product used by the entire Natera engineering organization. What You’ll Do
- Conduct user research with internal Natera developers to identify friction points and translate those needs into a seamless, self-service platform. •
- Lead the Elite: Manage and mentor a high-performing team of 8 engineers, providing technical leadership and career coaching. •
Requirements
- You will oversee three critical high-performing workstreams: Cloud Engineering, Orchestration and Kafka, consisting of several elite engineers, including Staff-level experts.
- At Natera, we don't just "provide infrastructure", we build an AI-native Internal Developer Platform (IDP) .
- experience that balances speed with enterprise-grade guardrails.
- Autonomous Governance: Design and implement automated, AI-driven guardrails that enforce security and architectural standards without requiring manual approvals or slowing down developer velocity.
- AI-Native Infrastructure: Lead the architecture of a high-scale AWS environment optimized for AI workloads, ensuring deep integration between Kubernetes, Terraform, and event-driven architectures. •
- experience in Cloud, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership role managing high-performing teams. •
- experience conducting internal user research, defining service-level objectives (SLOs), and building self-service tools that developers actually want to use. •
- Technical Authority: Deep, "under-the-hood" expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. You should be comfortable acting as a technical peer and mentor to your engineers. •
- Event-Driven Architecture: Expert-level knowledge of Kafka/MSK and orchestration services. You understand how to scale high-throughput streaming data for mission-critical applications. •
- AI-Native Operations: Practical
- experience or a deep understanding of applying AI techniques, such as RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), agentic reasoning, or LLM-driven automation, to streamline operational workflows and platform governance. •
- Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health.
Experience
- Experience: 8+ years in Cloud/Platform/Infrastructure Engineering. About the Role
- Strategic Platform Leadership: 8+ years of
Benefits
- Reporting directly to the Director of Platform Engineering, you will have the autonomy to define the roadmap, align stakeholders across the organization, and lead your team to execute on a vision that directly impacts Natera’s ability to innovate at scale.
- Define the Vision: Own the multi-year roadmap for Natera’s Cloud, Orchestration, and Kafka ecosystems, aligning technical debt with future-facing AI-native initiatives. •
- The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location.
- Remote USA $138,700 — $173,350 USD OUR OPPORTUNITY
- Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.
- benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents.
- Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other
- benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter
Contact
- For more information, visit www.natera.com .
- Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/
- Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @ natera.com email domain ONLY.
Additional details
- As the Manager of Platform Engineering , you will lead the backbone of Natera’s infrastructure.
- You aren’t just managing a team, you are the Product Manager of our Cloud Ecosystem.
- Your mission is to ensure that our cloud environment doesn't just support workloads, but makes deploying and scaling them effortless for every engineering team in the company.
- We operate with a "Platform as a Product" philosophy.
- This means you will treat our internal developers as customers, seeking to understand their friction points and delivering a seamless, self-service
- Strategic Leadership & Product Ownership •
- Platform as a Product: Act as the Product Owner of your domain.
- Operational Excellence: Oversee the delivery of high-throughput event streaming (Kafka/MSK) and orchestration services that the entire company relies on for mission-critical data. •
- Roadmap Alignment: Facilitate cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders across Natera to ensure the platform evolves in lockstep with product requirements.
- People Leadership & High-Performance Culture •