About the position

Hover is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Infrastructure and Security team and help shape how engineering scales as our systems grow in complexity. This role sits at the intersection of DevOps, internal platform development, security engineering, and applied research. We don’t treat Infrastructure as a cost center or a ticket-taking IT function, we treat it as a product team. Your customers are our Product Engineers building customer-facing web applications, and our Research Scientists developing Generative models and Computer Vision systems. Your product is the platform that enables them to ship code safely, quickly, and reliably, even as our technical complexity increases.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll stay close to the code while taking on real ownership over systems that power the rest of engineering. Our product teams ship web apps; our research teams train large, GPU-intensive models, and today the highest friction lives at the boundary between experimentation and production. We want you to help bridge that gap by building tooling and defaults that make security, deployment, and scale feel seamless rather than burdensome. Your success won’t be measured by how many tickets you close, but by the leverage you create: faster iteration, fewer sharp edges, and an infrastructure platform that engineers trust and enjoy using.

You will contribute by

In this role, you will own Infrastructure as a product, working directly with engineers and researchers to identify friction, set a clear platform roadmap, and improve build speed, reliability, and deployment workflows. You’ll lead and own the Security function, managing core domains like IAM, MFA, and SCIM while acting as the bridge between Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Corporate Security to deliver secure-by-default systems that don’t slow teams down.

As a hands-on, first-level manager, you’ll lead and mentor a small infrastructure team while remaining technically active, spending roughly 30-50% of your time contributing to Go-based tooling, Terraform, and modeling strong DevOps practices. You’ll partner closely with Research to operationalize Generative AI and Computer Vision pipelines, improving developer experience around complex build environments, C++ dependencies, and GPU-based workflows as models move into production.

Our platform runs primarily on GCP, with Kubernetes and Terraform at the core. Internal services and CLIs are written in Go, security covers the domains of IAM, MFA, SCIM, secure coding practices, and cloud security and the teams you support build in React, Ruby on Rails, Python, and C++. You don’t need deep expertise in every language, but you should be comfortable reading across the stack to understand where friction exists.

Your background includes

• A strong software engineering foundation with 6+ years of experience: you’re a developer at heart and comfortable writing clean, maintainable code, not just stitching together scripts.
• 2+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, or internal tooling, with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and Terraform.
• 1+ years of people leadership experience (formal or informal), paired with strong IC credibility and an interest in hands-on, first-level engineering management.
• A developer experience (DX) mindset: you care deeply about good tooling, intuitive workflows, and clear failure modes, and you take pride in building platforms engineers enjoy using.
• A product mindset applied to infrastructure: you look beyond requests to understand root problems and prioritize work that improves visibility, reliability, and efficiency.
• Cloud experience, with GCP preferred (AWS experience also welcome).
• A solid grounding in security fundamentals.
• Bonus points:
  • Experience scaling Computer Vision or Generative ML workloads.
  • Experience transitioning from an IC (Individual Contributor) to a Lead/Manager role.
  • Opinions on what makes a great Internal Developer Platform.

Benefits

• Compensation - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
• Healthcare - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
• Paid Time Off - Unlimited and flexible vacation policy
• Paid Family Leave - We support work/life balance and offer generous paid parental and new child bonding leave
• Mandatory Self-Care Days - A day set aside each month to allow employees to recharge
• Remote Wellbeing Resources - We provide recurring fitness classes, meditation/ mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance
• Learning - We encourage continued education and will help cover the cost of management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications

Hybrid roles at Hover

Hover has Hubs in San Francisco and New York City, where we expect that all employees living within a 50-mile radius of our offices will come into their local Hover office at least three times a week to build rapport and foster organic connection. At this time, Hover is not considering fully remote roles.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $190,000 - $235,000 annually. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all applicable US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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