Laravel is looking for an Infrastructure Engineering Manager to lead the team that builds and operates the Laravel Cloud platform. This fully managed infrastructure platform is optimized for Laravel and PHP, and your team will ensure it is reliable, scalable, and a delightful experience for developers. You'll develop people, guide technical direction, and create an environment where engineers can do their best work.
What You'll Do
- Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of infrastructure engineers
- Foster an engineering culture emphasizing autonomy, ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement
- Support career development through 1:1s, goal setting, and regular feedback
- Collaborate with leadership to shape strategy, resourcing, and roadmap for the infrastructure team
- Ensure reliability, availability, and performance through operational excellence
- Drive adoption of infrastructure best practices such as GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and security
- Partner with product to help shape and define requirements for upcoming projects
- Communicate technical direction and priorities clearly with engineers, leadership, and stakeholders
- Work closely with other engineering leads to ensure seamless platform experiences
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years experience leading or managing infrastructure engineering teams
- Deep understanding of what people need to do their best work
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
- Knowledge of the operator pattern (Go)
- Strong understanding of AWS services, including: EKS, VPC/networking fundamentals, IAM and security architecture
- Experience running large-scale distributed systems with high availability
- Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, or similar)
- Strong communication and leadership skills - able to align teams, unblock engineers, and move projects forward
Technical Stack
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- AWS
- Go
- Terraform
- CDK
Team & Environment
You will lead the all-remote Laravel Cloud Infrastructure team. We are a small, tight-knit team where every developer counts, on a mission to improve the experience of developers everywhere in the world.
Benefits & Compensation
- Health care plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Paid time off (Vacation, Sick & Public holidays)
- Family leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Pension plans (As locally applicable)
- Performance based bonus plan
- Company equity
- Option to attend Laracon conferences around the world
Work Mode
This is a global, all-remote position. We are focused on candidates located between the EU West and US East time zones for optimal collaboration.
Laravel is an equal opportunity employer.
