Platform Engineer Manager
Roadrunner · United States - Remote · Posted Jul 8, 2026
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About RoadRunner
At RoadRunner, our daily motivation is to accelerate the road to Zero Waste™ while delivering maximum value for our customers and communities through efficient, scalable, and sustainable waste operations. Our team cares deeply about each other and our planet, and we are dedicated to leveraging technology and innovation to modernize a vital industry with integrity, expertise, and a passion for creating a future where waste is a problem of the past™.
Technology, artificial intelligence, and data‑driven strategies are the backbone of our team of waste experts, enabling us to deliver streamlined, cost‑effective, and sustainable waste and recycling services. Since RoadRunner’s founding in 2014, we’ve helped thousands of customer locations nationwide achieve an average of 10–20% savings on their monthly waste bills while improving recycling efficiency. We’re proud that RoadRunner’s industry‑leading model and people‑first culture have been recognized by the 2023 SEAL Business Sustainability Awards , Pittsburgh Business Times’ Best Places to Work (2025) , and Pittsburgh Inno’s 2022 Fire Awards .
Our Glassdoor reviews are fantastic (3.3/5 on 311 reviews), our CEO’s approval rating is 71%, and 65% of our reviewers would recommend working here. Our Indeed ratings have consistently improved as we’ve been expanding our teams (3.5/5 on 85 reviews) and we now have over 14K followers on LinkedIn.
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Salary Range: $160k - $205k - w/ annual bonus
Core communication hours: 9am-6pm ET / 8am - 5pm CT / 8am -5pm MT / 7am - 5pm PT
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Platform Engineering Manager to lead our platform engineering team. You will guide the team in designing, building, and maintaining the underlying infrastructure and tools that empower our product development teams. This role requires a strong technical background in Platform engineering / Dev(Sec)Ops, proven leadership skills, and a passion for mentoring high-performing teams.
Primary Duties Including % of time:
75% - Manage, lead mentor our Platform Engineers
10% - Design, build, manage and monitor the infrastructure of RoadRunner technology
10% - Collaborate with product and engineering managers to define technical roadmaps and help guide our technology north star
5% - Maintain current awareness of marketplace trends, both technical and process improvements
Travel Required: 5%
Organizational Relationship:
Reports To: CTO
Direct Reports: Platform Team Engineers
Interacts with: Technology, Product, Analysis and Business Strategy
Skills and Experience:
7+ years professional experience in Platform engineering, Dev(Sec)Ops or related field of engineering
3+ years experience as an engineering manager or team lead
Strong technical background in platform engineering, with hands-on experience in relevant or similar technologies (AWS services and ecosystem, Terraform, Docker, DataDog)
Experience building and managing web application infrastructure at scale.
Preferred experience in data engineering and application architecture
Preferred ML Ops experience, or otherwise willing to learn
Experience creating technical scopes, technical requirements documents and technical roadmaps.
The ability to communicate technical concepts and decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred experience hiring and growing an engineering team.
Experience overseeing and implementing technical processes such as pull request reviews, code coverage, continuous integration and deployment, and cloud platform management.
The ability to debug complex technical issues.
Passionate about business results and quality, with a strong sense of accountability, metrics and ownership.
Strategic thinker with the ability to grasp the tactical details.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, is dynamic, and can capture a group’s interest and maintain it as well as the ability to facilitate meetings with diverse and sometimes conflicting points of view.
Ability to manage multiple projects, multi-task, and effectively prioritize assignments with minimal supervision.
Ability to influence and collaborate at all levels and across all functions of the organization.
Proven ability to organize/manage multiple priorities coupled with the flexibility to quickly adapt to ever changing business needs.
Strong analytical and problem solving. Solid decision making in a timely manner.
Enthusiasm for our sustainability driven mission
Core Values:
Trust - Have confidence in our team. Have integrity in your ac…