Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

📋 Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Platform Engineering to grow and develop the multidisciplinary team (DevOps, App Security, SRE, and FinOps) that builds and maintains the shared systems that all of our teams depend on. Your guidance and influence on this team will raise the bar across the engineering organization. Murmuration builds technology that helps our partner organizations strengthen civic engagement and organize more effectively in their communities.

🏢 About Murmuration

At Murmuration, we believe that America's promise is shaped and reshaped by the best ideas and ideals of its communities, and the dreams of the people who believe in a better life for themselves, their families, and each other. We help organizations build power in their communities in four key ways: We organize a network of values-aligned partners; we provide deep, data-driven insights into people, places, and perspectives; we develop tools that make organizing and engagement easy and more effective; and we offer services that strengthen our partners' capacity to lead change in their communities. We envision an America where every community has what it needs to help people lead healthy, free, and dignified lives. We work to redesign the systems and structures we all depend on — how we learn, live, govern, and solve problems — so that they are just, equitable, resilient, and rooted in shared responsibility. By strengthening the ties that hold communities together, we aim for civic life defined by collective action and care, with effective leadership that truly represents everyone. We are a collaborative, curious, and creative team of organizers, scientists, teachers, technologists, campaign veterans, and more who share the unwavering belief that we can use our gifts in service of transforming America — together. We've built our team guided by the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And so we support each other relentlessly — rallying together to face challenges the same way we celebrate each other's wins.

🎯 The Role

As a Senior Manager, Platform Engineering, you'll join the Platform Team to support both production and prototype applications and the services they're built upon. You'll coach and grow a small, cross-discipline team that owns the outcomes for the org's build/deploy/run systems, with accountability for other teams' ability to ship fast, safely, and reliably. The team’s disciplines span DevOps, App Security, SRE, and FinOps domains. Your leadership actively shapes the team's operating model, evolving it to serve the Engineering organization's current and future needs. Your strategic thinking turns vision into sequenced deliverables and adapts as priorities shift without losing sight of where the team is headed. Your commitment to high-quality documentation improves knowledge sharing, onboarding, and long-term product maintainability across Murmuration. Your ability to work across engineering teams, understanding their goals and shaping the org's engineering roadmap around them, is key to making the Platform Team successful.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Shape technical strategy for the team: Build an engineering roadmap that keeps the team focused on big-picture objectives and that reflects tradeoffs among competing priorities, dependencies, and complexities across DevOps, App Security, SRE, and FinOps.
• Manage technical debt and process health: Maintain a steady cadence of debt paydown, prioritizing which debt to tackle and communicating the reasoning behind those choices. Own the schedule of dependency and application updates so end-of-life deadlines are handled proactively rather than as last-minute fire drills.
• Deliver production-ready platforms: Own the platforms and tooling that give other teams a stable, observable foundation of reliability, performance, and operational excellence so they can focus on building and testing their own applications on top of it.
• Strengthen application security: Introspect codebases to identify vulnerabilities early, and own data privacy and access control as first-class concerns; deliver solutions that support secure coding practices across the org without owning how other teams write their code.
• Enable FinOps visibility: Build and own the single panes of

🎁 Benefits

Competitive