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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Engineering Manager (Infrastructure) - **Company:** Headway, LLC - **Location:** New York, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Datadog, Delivery Pipeline, Large Language Models, Fastapi, Data Layers, AI Platforms - **Published:** August 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a4eef6eb-765d-4ffe-bd74-c09be5dff0f1 ## About the Role * 5-7+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, with experience leading infrastructure or platform teams. * 5+ years of experience as a Software or Infrastructure Engineer, with enough depth to lead credibly in design reviews and incident response * Experience managing the interface between a platform team and the product engineering teams that depend on it, including setting ownership boundaries and building self-serve tooling * Comfortable managing through competing demands: a support queue, a strategic roadmap, an on-call rotation, and fast-moving external dependencies all at once * Familiarity with cloud infrastructure at scale (AWS), observability tooling (Datadog or similar), and deployment pipelines at companies where reliability is a product requirement * Experience owning a platform strategy and representing it to senior leadership: setting measurable goals for infrastructure work, and making the case for foundational investment in terms the business understands Below are additional experiences we think help engineering managers succeed at Headway: * You have led a team through a significant architectural transition, such as moving from a monolith toward service isolation, or from manual to automated operations * You have experience building or governing LLM infrastructure and AI platform primitives * You have experience in healthcare or another regulated environment ## Description As AI dramatically increases code velocity across the org, our mandate is to make every change safe from the start and build systems that get safer as they get faster, working toward a model where routine infrastructure is self-serve and the team spends the majority of its time on strategic platform work. That means owning the reliability, performance, and scalability of Mamba, Headway's FastAPI/Python monolith, and the AWS infrastructure it runs on. This is a technical leadership role: you'll set strategy and vision for the team, report to the Head of Engineering Foundations, and lead through credibility in design reviews and incident response, not through distance from the work. What You'll Own * An engineering team: hiring to a high bar into a growing team, developing engineers through the senior and staff levels, and running an effective on-call rotation for a team the rest of engineering depends on. * The infrastructure platform: a system every other Headway team builds on, and a roadmap spanning cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, LLM infrastructure, the data layer, and observability. * The shift from reactive to strategic: driving the team's operating model toward self-serve infrastructure, so the team spends more time on strategic platform work and less on routine support requests. * Blast-radius reduction: leading the architectural and deployment validation work that contains the scope and duration of incidents when they happen. * The org interface: defining production readiness expectations for AI workloads, co-owning container security and secrets management with the Security team, and making sure the platform is accessible and well-understood by the product engineering teams that depend on it. Who You Are We're looking for experienced engineering team leaders and people managers who are relationship-obsessed, drive results, and enable their teams to build for technical excellence. As a Senior Engineering Manager at Headway, you will work closely with Engineering Leadership, Security, and product engineering teams across the org to help shape the future of the engineering organization. You are an infrastructure leader who is as comfortable in a postmortem as you are in a planning doc. You know how to run a team that carries a support queue while still making progress on strategic platform work. 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