Engineering Manager - Platform & Infrastructure

Remote, UK

Job Overview

Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.

At Prolific, our product development group is a powerhouse of Engineering, Product, Data, Design, and Research – all working in lockstep. You'll thrive in cross-functional teams, each with a clear mission and the freedom to self-organize and innovate towards the best possible outcomes. We're passionate about moving fast and continuously improving, and we champion strong engineering principles and a culture of strong ownership.

Job Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced and strategic engineering leader to lead our platform and infrastructure function. This is a key leadership role where you will be accountable for our entire platform and infrastructure, ensuring that our engineering teams have the robust, scalable, and secure systems they need to build and deliver world-class products.

• Lead with Impact: Leading, coaching, and empowering your teams to consistently deliver outstanding value to the wider engineering organization.
• Define and Execute Strategy: Help define and execute the platform, infrastructure, site reliability and service management vision and roadmap, aligning with the company's long-term business goals.
• Hands on Leadership: Actively participate in technical direction, design and execution as well as problem-solving to unblock and mentor teams, respond to incidents and be an escalation point for reliability of our systems.
• Drive Automation and Cloud Operations: Oversee cloud infrastructure and drive GitOps practices, such as infrastructure-as-code. Own cloud infrastructure and operations, ensuring platforms are monitored, available, scale appropriately, and cost-efficient.
• Ensure Operational Excellence: Establish good systems reliability engineering, DevSecOps, and service management practices.
• Enable Cloud Development: Provide the tools, guardrails and cloud infrastructure self-service capabilities for engineering teams to develop in the cloud.
• Improve Developer Experience: Closely collaborate with product engineering, ensuring that our internal tools and pipelines enable our engineers to work with greater efficiency and autonomy.
• Embed Security and Compliance: Partner with the product engineering teams to embed security best practices and tools into the software development and release process. Ensure that the platform maintains a good security posture.
• Own IT: Own the internal IT function and tech stack, ensuring our business applications, software, systems, and hardware support the company's growth and operational efficiency. You will also manage key tech supplier relationships.

Requirements

• Proven leadership experience in a senior infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering role, with a strong track record of building and leading high-performing teams.
• Deep expertise across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps and DevSecOps practices.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to define and execute a long-term technology roadmap.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A passion for mentoring and developing team members, creating a positive and collaborative environment.
• Experienced in managing suppliers and negotiating costs, and expertise with cloud cost forecasting, monitoring and optimisation.

Prolific is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to providing a respectful and inclusive workplace.