Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Foundations

Job Overview

Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted. In today's digital world, finding genuine relationships is tougher than ever. At Hinge, we’re on a mission to inspire intimate connection to create a less lonely world. We’re obsessed with understanding our users’ behaviors to help them find love, and our success is defined by one simple metric– setting up great dates. With millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.

About the Role

Cloud Foundations is the bedrock of Hinge's engineering: the AWS infrastructure, networking, IaC, and Kubernetes systems that every product team builds on. When this team does its job well, the rest of engineering ships faster and operates more reliably by default.

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the 5-person Cloud Foundations team and serve as the key leader in the Platform group — owning both the team's outcomes and Hinge's broader infrastructure strategy.

As a member of the Platform leadership team, you'll approach infrastructure like a product — understanding the needs of your internal customers and the business, shaping a roadmap that balances reliability, velocity, and cost, investing in the engineers behind the work, and staying close enough to the details to be credible in design reviews and on-call rotations.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Foundations team leadership – roadmap, strategy, and execution. Driving measurable outcomes quarter to quarter.


• Shape Hinge's platform-level infrastructure strategy, partnering with other leads on cross-pillar dependencies and tradeoffs.


• Lead cloud infrastructure initiatives focused on reliability, scalability, security, and cost management.


• Build tools and automation that make our systems more consistent, observable, and self-service.


• Partner with product engineering teams to improve developer velocity and experience.


• Contribute to code reviews, architecture discussions, and platform documentation.


• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, inclusion, and autonomy grounded in clarity and trust.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years in management.


• Deep technical background in cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and distributed systems, basic comfort with developer platforms.


• Proven success leading reliability, automation, and cost-efficiency efforts at scale.


• Comfort operating at both team-level (hands-on technical leadership, direct people management) and platform-level (cross-team strategy, cross-pillar partnership).


• Strong communication and collaboration skills; thrives in cross-functional environments.


• Passion for developer experience and building tools that make engineers more productive.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating Kubernetes at scale.


• Background in modern IaC


• Familiarity with cost management at scale.


• Prior strategic / architect / staff-engineer-shape role bridging team execution and broader platform strategy.

Benefits

401(k) Matching: We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.

Professional Growth: Get an annual Learning & Development stipend once you’ve been with us for three months. You also get free access to Udemy, an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 6000 courses, starting your first day.

Parental Leave & Planning: When you become a new parent, you’re eligible for 100% paid parental leave (20 paid weeks for both birth and non-birth parents.)

Fertility Support: You’ll get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, from basic treatments to fertility preservation. We also provide a stipend towards fertility preservation. You and your spouse/domestic partner are both eligible.

Date Stipend: All Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates– Romantic or otherwise. Hinge Premium is also free for employees and their loved ones.

ERGs: We have eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)—Asian, Unapologetic, Disability, LGBTQIA+, Raices, Women/Nonbinary, Parents —that hold regular meetings, host events, and provide