Engineering Manager TLM Platform

What You'll Do Own infrastructure — cloud, third-party vendors, and everything surrounding it Build developer productivity — the AI tooling and harnesses that make every other engineering team genuinely AI-first Own SRE and production support — bring production discipline as we head into a high-growth, high-scale phase Build out the team — grow from 2 people to five to six over the next three months Stay hands-on — with a team this small, work directly alongside your engineers and do the work yourself, not just direct it Grow each function over time — infrastructure, developer productivity, and SRE/production support can each become a larger team of its own You Might Be a Fit If... Have at least 2 years as a line manager directly managing teams of six to ten people—or clear readiness to grow into that role You've been a line manager for at least two years, directly managing teams of six to ten people—or you're on a clear path there and want to grow into it You have hands-on experience with AWS or GCP and strong database troubleshooting skills You've seen real scale—on the order of at least a million requests per minute You can troubleshoot across databases, networking, compute, Docker, Kubernetes, and other aspects of infrastructure You care as much about developer productivity and AI tooling as you do about raw infrastructure You know on-call practices, SLAs, SLOs, and SRE practices generally You want to stay hands-on and grow into a fuller managerial role over time You move fast, with the same appetite as the rest of Harper Nice to Have Your own network to draw on for hiring—otherwise, comfort working closely with recruiters Experience building developer productivity tooling and AI harnesses for other engineering teams Experience building a team from a very small base Prior startup experience—especially at a company scaling through hypergrowth Compensation & Logistics Salary: $225,000–$275,000 Location: San Francisco, in-office. Based in SF or willing to relocate. Schedule: Monday–Friday, in-office five days a week. Benefits: Uber commuter benefits; breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided; snacks, drinks, and coffee daily; free gym membership; health, dental, and vision insurance. The Process Hiring Manager screen - 30 min video chat. Technical screen — 60 min remote: project deep dive + system design Super Day on-site — meet the team, sit in on the operation, do real work alongside us.