[Remote] Platform Engineering Manager - Platform Testing

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cedar is a leading healthcare technology company focused on making healthcare more affordable and accessible. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Platform Testing team, responsible for enhancing the testing ecosystem to improve software quality and developer velocity. The role involves strategic leadership, collaboration with engineering teams, and the implementation of innovative testing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cedar’s Platform Testing team, including strategy, execution, talent development, and stakeholder alignment
• Develop and execute a testing platform roadmap that improves developer velocity, product reliability, and confidence in releases
• Partner with Staff Engineers and Architects to implement testing strategies as we move toward service-oriented architecture, including patterns for service-to-service validation, test environment strategy, and product-aligned coverage
• Improve the developer experience of testing by reducing slow feedback loops, lowering test environment friction, and making failures easier to understand and act on
• Own and evolve internal QA environment strategy, including cost-effective environments that support Delivery, Product, and Integrations partners during go-lives
• Drive solutions for testing model settings, entitlements, and other complex configuration-driven behavior
• Help reshape Cedar’s current testing approach into a deliberate strategy that balances unit, integration, end-to-end, contract, and environment-based testing
• Promote testing best practices across engineering through documentation, training, stakeholder engagement, and direct collaboration with product engineering teams
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, product teams, and internal customers to understand pain points and translate them into clear platform investments
• Explore and apply LLM-powered workflows for code review, test generation, validation, and quality automation
• Manage and grow engineers on the team, including coaching, performance management, career development, and hiring
• Create a culture of high ownership, technical excellence, pragmatic decision-making, and continuous improvement

Skills

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful exposure to testing, developer experience, infrastructure, CI/CD, or platform engineering
• 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience
• Experience building or operating systems that support software delivery, such as CI pipelines, test infrastructure, release tooling, internal platforms, or developer productivity systems
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs across reliability, cost, developer experience, and delivery speed
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders and translating ambiguous needs into concrete plans
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write strategy documents, project proposals, and clear technical guidance
• Experience developing engineers through coaching, feedback, delegation, and career development
• A bias toward action and ownership in complex, evolving environments
• You have experience leading engineering teams that build developer platforms, testing infrastructure, CI/CD systems, internal tools, or reliability-focused systems
• You are a hands-on engineering manager who can go deep with engineers, understand technical tradeoffs, and help teams make practical decisions
• You have strong opinions about software quality, testing strategy, and how teams should validate complex systems at scale
• Collaborate with platform engineering leadership and stakeholders and can work directly with them to understand problems, define priorities, and drive alignment
• You are pragmatic and outcome-oriented. You know when to build, when to simplify, when to downscope, and when a process or technical solution is not worth the cost
• You are excited about the future of software development in an LLM-driven world and have a point of view on how testing, review, and validation need to evolve
• You are collaborative, curious, and respectful. You listen first, ask good questions, and build trust before driving change
• You are not a pure process manager. You want to understand the details, diagnose problems, and help the team produce better technical outcomes
• You have a track record of identifying problems, proposing solutions, and driving meaningful improvements across a team or organization
• You enjoy teaching, coaching, and helping engineers adopt better practices
• Experience with service-oriented architecture, contract testing, integration testing, or distributed systems validation
• Experience with Python, Django, Go, Kotlin, or large monorepos
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD systems
• Experience with AWS, containers, Kubernetes, or cloud-based test environments
• Experience building internal platforms or self-service tooling for engineers
• Experience applying LLMs or AI-assisted workflows to software development, testing, review, or developer productivity
• Experience in healthcare, fintech, or another regulated domain where reliability and correctness matter
• Experience leading talks, workshops, focus groups, or internal training programs

Benefits

• A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
• Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
• Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
• Competitive pay, stock options (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on your first day
• 401k plan with 3% employer non-election contribution
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a stipend for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance, that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally

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