# Engineering Manager - Core Infra at Cinder

- Company: Cinder
- What the company does: Cinder helps high-growth companies design, automate, and scale modern trust and safety operations. Backed by Accel.
- Company website: https://cinder.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $275K to $315K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cinder/bf8990e5-a3de-4682-a218-841607e0f0d5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cinder-engineering-manager-core-infra/

## About the role

You'll own the health, direction, and delivery of the Core Infra team. The team owns the systems the rest of engineering builds on, including the graph service, CI/CD, and core developer tooling. It's a small team that leans senior, and its work is a genuine competitive advantage for Cinder. In practice that means:

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years building production software with at least 4 years in a startup environment, managing platform engineers directly. You've owned a team's delivery, not just your own, and you've grown ICs into stronger engineers
- Deep familiarity with high-throughput, data-intensive systems, workflow/automation engines, or AI-powered platforms in production, with experience managing full stack engineers
- A track record of driving a high-performing team: clear priorities and sufficient process to drive both velocity and quality, grounded in metrics
- Experience setting roadmaps and priorities in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment, and the judgment to decide what to deprioritize
- A real point of view on what high-performing engineering teams look like and how to measure them, with experience driving reliability, quality, or operational metrics
- You give direct, constructive feedback as a matter of course, and you deliver it in a way people can act on

Tags: Product & Engineering