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Platform Engineer Manager

United States - Remote

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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 actions.
  • Care personally about each other - Show compassion, empathy and open-mindedness.
  • Be Passionate - Love what you do. Love what we do.
  • Embrace challenge - See obstacles as opportunities to learn and grow.
  • Be Humble - Stay grounded. Seek feedback. Be curious.
  • Be Accountable - Take ownership. Be reliable. Be proactive.

We are excited to consider talented individuals from across the country. However, please note that we currently do not support candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK) / Delaware (DE) / Hawaii (HI) / Kansas (KS) / Louisiana (LA) / Maine (ME) / Montana (MT) / Nebraska (NE) / Nevada (NV) / New Mexico (NM) / North Dakota (ND) / South Dakota (SD) / Vermont (VT) / Wyoming (WY) / Puerto Rico (PR)

We thank all candidates for their interest in RoadRunner, but we cannot respond to everyone personally. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. We look forward to reviewing your application! 

RoadRunner is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. It is the policy of RoadRunner that qualified individuals with disabilities are not discriminated against because of their disabilities regarding job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. It is further the policy of RoadRunner to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in all aspects of the employment process. RoadRunner is prepared to modify or adjust the job application process or the job or work environment to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of the applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the position he or she desires, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship.

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