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Are you ready to shape the future of authentication? Join 1Kosmos and help lead the next wave in identity assurance and passwordless innovation.
1Kosmos is driving the future of identity security, empowering organizations to eliminate passwords and establish trust at every step of the identity lifecycle. As a vibrant team of innovators, we develop advanced authentication solutions trusted by some of the world’s leading brands. Join us as we create a passwordless world and set new standards for digital identity assurance.
Your Title: Engineering Manager, Authentication Platform
Your Location: Hybrid – Edison, NJ HQ
You Report to: SVP of Engineering and Chief Architect
Compensation: $180,000 or more depending upon experience
At 1Kosmos, we are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead technical execution across our Authentication (Auth) Platform, the passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication, SSO, and access services that sit in the login path for millions of users. This is for someone who stays close to the code, brings sound technical judgment, and turns product requirements into secure, highly available, and shippable solutions.
You will guide a distributed team of 4-6 engineers based in India while working closely with Product and the Head of Engineering from our Edison office. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will set architectural direction, make design decisions, remove delivery blockers, uphold release quality, and step into the codebase when the team or situation calls for it.
You bring an “always sleeveless” mindset: no issue is too small to investigate, no production incident is beneath you, and no architectural decision should be made without understanding the system that exists today.
What you will do:
- Steer architecture and design: Understand the existing Auth Platform deeply — authentication flows, identity federation, session and token services, and integrations and guide the team toward technically sound designs that align with current capabilities and the longer-term architectural direction.
- Turn product needs into executable engineering work: Partner with Product early to shape requirements, clarify trade-off s, sequence work, and translate feature requests into practical, well-defined engineering plans.
- Own Auth Platform delivery: Keep incoming work organized, priorities clear, dependencies visible, and commitments on track across passwordless login, MFA, SSO, and customer integrations.
- Lead through technical credibility: Participate actively in design discussions, code reviews, debugging, and technical problem-solving. Step into the codebase and contribute directly when needed to validate an approach, unblock a critical effort, or resolve a production issue.
- Set the release-quality bar: Establish and uphold standards for design review, code quality, test readiness, performance, security, standards compliance, and release decisions.
- Own production outcomes: Authentication is in the critical path of every user session. Participate directly in incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions for Auth services, with a focus on availability and login latency.
- Build secure, reliable systems: Drive sound engineering decisions across Node.js microservices, identity protocols, cloud-based SaaS deployments, Kubernetes, AWS, observability, performance, and platform resilience.
- Guide and unblock the team: Provide daily technical direction, remove obstacles, facilitate effective delivery discussions, and help engineers make good decisions without becoming a status only manager.
- Bring a point of view: Make timely, well-reasoned technical decisions amid ambiguity, clearly communicate trade-offs, and constructively challenge approaches when needed.
- Foster collaborative execution: Work closely with Product, QA, Security, and engineering peers to create a low-ego environment where ownership, rigor, and delivery matter.
What you bring:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including recent experience guiding technical delivery and engineering teams in a hands-on capacity.
- Identity and access management depth: Experience building or operating authentication, SSO, or IAM platforms in production.
- Proven hands-on technical leadership: Able to lead by example through architecture, code reviews, debugging, technical decision-making, and direct contribution when a critical need arises.
- Sound technical judgment: You form an informed point of view, explain trade-offs clearly, and make decisions when the answer is not obvious.
- Demonstrated delivery leadership: Experience organizing engineering work, identifying dependencies and risks, unblocking teams, and delivering quality capabilities predictably.
- Strong quality and operational rigor: Experience with design and code reviews, automated testing, observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, and release readiness for high availability services.
- Security-first mindset: Practical understanding of secure software development, threat modeling, data boundaries, platform security, and performance considerations in enterprise SaaS.
- Collaborative technical leadership: Ability to influence through technical depth, clarity, and follow through while working effectively across US and India-based teams.
- Willingness to work from Edison, NJ three days per week and maintain meaningful working overlap with the India-based Auth engineering team.
Technical Skills:
- Programming Stack: Node.js / JavaScript / TypeScript - Deep, practical experience building, debugging, reviewing, and supporting production Node.js services. Node.js is the primary language across our microservices environment.
- Java and Go: Working knowledge of Java and Go is secondary but not mandatory.
- Identity protocols and standards: Strong working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2.0; FIDO2 / WebAuthn and passkeys; JWT and token lifecycle management (issuance, refresh, revocation); and NIST 800-63B authenticator assurance levels.
- Authentication and access: Experience with passwordless and multi-factor authentication, session management, adaptive / risk-based authentication, and authorization models (RBAC/ABAC).
- Enterprise identity integrations: Familiarity with directory services (LDAP, Active Directory, Entra ID), SCIM provisioning, and integrating with IdPs and service providers such as Okta, Ping, and Microsoft.
- Applied cryptography: Practical understanding of PKI, certificates, key management, signing and encryption, and secure secrets handling.
- Microservices and distributed systems: Strong experience with service-oriented architecture, API design, inter-service communication, resiliency patterns, scalability, and performance.
- Cloud-based SaaS platforms: Demonstrated experience building and operating secure, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- Cloud Stack: AWS, GCP, Azure - Strong working knowledge of AWS services, cloud deployment patterns, security, monitoring, reliability, and cost-aware operational practices. Hands-on experience with containerized workloads, Docker, Kubernetes, deployment practices, and operational troubleshooting.
- CI/CD and release engineering: Experience with automated build, test, deployment, and rollback practices that support predictable and reliable releases.
- Performance engineering: Experience diagnosing and improving latency, throughput, scalability, and reliability in high-volume, latency-sensitive distributed systems.
Who thrives here:
- Builders who stay close to real technical problems and lead by example.
- Engineers who form a clear point of view, make informed decisions, and take responsibility for outcomes.
- Problem solvers who can move between architecture, delivery details, debugging, and production incidents.
- Pragmatic collaborators who understand existing systems before proposing change.
- People energized by security, performance, reliability, and protecting users from identity fraud.
- Leaders who earn trust through technical credibility, clarity, and follow-through.
What we offer:
- Opportunity to build and lead a critical function at a high-growth Series B startup
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO Policy
- Collaborative, fast-paced culture where your impact is immediate and visible
Are you ready to shape the future of authentication? Join 1Kosmos and help lead the next wave in identity assurance and passwordless innovation.
1Kosmos is driving the future of identity security, empowering organizations to eliminate passwords and establish trust at every step of the identity lifecycle. As a vibrant team of innovators, we develop advanced authentication solutions trusted by some of the world’s leading brands. Join us as we create a passwordless world and set new standards for digital identity assurance.
Your Title: Engineering Manager, Authentication Platform
Your Location: Hybrid – Edison, NJ HQ
You Report to: SVP of Engineering and Chief Architect
Compensation: $180,000 or more depending upon experience
At 1Kosmos, we are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead technical execution across our Authentication (Auth) Platform, the passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication, SSO, and access services that sit in the login path for millions of users. This is for someone who stays close to the code, brings sound technical judgment, and turns product requirements into secure, highly available, and shippable solutions.
You will guide a distributed team of 4-6 engineers based in India while working closely with Product and the Head of Engineering from our Edison office. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will set architectural direction, make design decisions, remove delivery blockers, uphold release quality, and step into the codebase when the team or situation calls for it.
You bring an “always sleeveless” mindset: no issue is too small to investigate, no production incident is beneath you, and no architectural decision should be made without understanding the system that exists today.
What you will do:
- Steer architecture and design: Understand the existing Auth Platform deeply — authentication flows, identity federation, session and token services, and integrations and guide the team toward technically sound designs that align with current capabilities and the longer-term architectural direction.
- Turn product needs into executable engineering work: Partner with Product early to shape requirements, clarify trade-off s, sequence work, and translate feature requests into practical, well-defined engineering plans.
- Own Auth Platform delivery: Keep incoming work organized, priorities clear, dependencies visible, and commitments on track across passwordless login, MFA, SSO, and customer integrations.
- Lead through technical credibility: Participate actively in design discussions, code reviews, debugging, and technical problem-solving. Step into the codebase and contribute directly when needed to validate an approach, unblock a critical effort, or resolve a production issue.
- Set the release-quality bar: Establish and uphold standards for design review, code quality, test readiness, performance, security, standards compliance, and release decisions.
- Own production outcomes: Authentication is in the critical path of every user session. Participate directly in incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions for Auth services, with a focus on availability and login latency.
- Build secure, reliable systems: Drive sound engineering decisions across Node.js microservices, identity protocols, cloud-based SaaS deployments, Kubernetes, AWS, observability, performance, and platform resilience.
- Guide and unblock the team: Provide daily technical direction, remove obstacles, facilitate effective delivery discussions, and help engineers make good decisions without becoming a status only manager.
- Bring a point of view: Make timely, well-reasoned technical decisions amid ambiguity, clearly communicate trade-offs, and constructively challenge approaches when needed.
- Foster collaborative execution: Work closely with Product, QA, Security, and engineering peers to create a low-ego environment where ownership, rigor, and delivery matter.
What you bring:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including recent experience guiding technical delivery and engineering teams in a hands-on capacity.
- Identity and access management depth: Experience building or operating authentication, SSO, or IAM platforms in production.
- Proven hands-on technical leadership: Able to lead by example through architecture, code reviews, debugging, technical decision-making, and direct contribution when a critical need arises.
- Sound technical judgment: You form an informed point of view, explain trade-offs clearly, and make decisions when the answer is not obvious.
- Demonstrated delivery leadership: Experience organizing engineering work, identifying dependencies and risks, unblocking teams, and delivering quality capabilities predictably.
- Strong quality and operational rigor: Experience with design and code reviews, automated testing, observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, and release readiness for high availability services.
- Security-first mindset: Practical understanding of secure software development, threat modeling, data boundaries, platform security, and performance considerations in enterprise SaaS.
- Collaborative technical leadership: Ability to influence through technical depth, clarity, and follow through while working effectively across US and India-based teams.
- Willingness to work from Edison, NJ three days per week and maintain meaningful working overlap with the India-based Auth engineering team.
Technical Skills:
- Programming Stack: Node.js / JavaScript / TypeScript - Deep, practical experience building, debugging, reviewing, and supporting production Node.js services. Node.js is the primary language across our microservices environment.
- Java and Go: Working knowledge of Java and Go is secondary but not mandatory.
- Identity protocols and standards: Strong working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2.0; FIDO2 / WebAuthn and passkeys; JWT and token lifecycle management (issuance, refresh, revocation); and NIST 800-63B authenticator assurance levels.
- Authentication and access: Experience with passwordless and multi-factor authentication, session management, adaptive / risk-based authentication, and authorization models (RBAC/ABAC).
- Enterprise identity integrations: Familiarity with directory services (LDAP, Active Directory, Entra ID), SCIM provisioning, and integrating with IdPs and service providers such as Okta, Ping, and Microsoft.
- Applied cryptography: Practical understanding of PKI, certificates, key management, signing and encryption, and secure secrets handling.
- Microservices and distributed systems: Strong experience with service-oriented architecture, API design, inter-service communication, resiliency patterns, scalability, and performance.
- Cloud-based SaaS platforms: Demonstrated experience building and operating secure, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- Cloud Stack: AWS, GCP, Azure - Strong working knowledge of AWS services, cloud deployment patterns, security, monitoring, reliability, and cost-aware operational practices. Hands-on experience with containerized workloads, Docker, Kubernetes, deployment practices, and operational troubleshooting.
- CI/CD and release engineering: Experience with automated build, test, deployment, and rollback practices that support predictable and reliable releases.
- Performance engineering: Experience diagnosing and improving latency, throughput, scalability, and reliability in high-volume, latency-sensitive distributed systems.
Who thrives here:
- Builders who stay close to real technical problems and lead by example.
- Engineers who form a clear point of view, make informed decisions, and take responsibility for outcomes.
- Problem solvers who can move between architecture, delivery details, debugging, and production incidents.
- Pragmatic collaborators who understand existing systems before proposing change.
- People energized by security, performance, reliability, and protecting users from identity fraud.
- Leaders who earn trust through technical credibility, clarity, and follow-through.
What we offer:
- Opportunity to build and lead a critical function at a high-growth Series B startup
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO Policy
- Collaborative, fast-paced culture where your impact is immediate and visible
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- Technology & Software30
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in platform engineering manager jobs.
- 5+ years managing platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling engineering teams
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Proven ability to build and maintain internal developer platforms or golden paths
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline design, GitOps workflows, and observability tooling
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with product, security, and application engineering leaders
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Platform Engineering Manager Job Search
Quantify platform scope on your resume
Hiring managers want to see the scale you've owned. List the number of engineering teams your platform served, the services or pipelines you standardized, and any measurable reduction in developer toil or deployment frequency you drove.
Distinguish your roadmap from your team's roadmap
Platform engineering manager roles require you to show platform-level strategy separate from feature delivery. On your resume, pull out the multi-quarter roadmap items you owned and led, not just the sprints your team executed.
Target companies by platform maturity stage
Early-stage platform teams want builders who can create a developer portal from scratch. Post-IPO or large-org teams want managers who can consolidate fragmented tooling. Read the job description carefully and tailor your examples to the company's actual stage.
Apply early to roles that fit
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Prepare a platform-specific leadership example
Interviewers will ask how you balance internal customer needs against long-term platform investment. Prepare a concrete story where you deprioritized a developer request to protect platform reliability or scalability, and explain how you communicated that decision.
Negotiate scope before negotiating title
Platform engineering manager roles vary widely in authority. Before accepting an offer, confirm whether the platform team has dedicated headcount, budget autonomy, and a seat in architecture decisions. A strong title with no real platform authority limits your impact and your next move.
Platform Engineering Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most platform engineering managers?
The companies hiring the most platform engineering managers right now include Amazon Web Services, Amazon, and The Estée Lauder Companies, with the largest share of openings in California, Washington, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated in companies scaling their engineering organizations and investing in internal developer experience.
How many platform engineering manager jobs are remote?
About 83% of platform engineering manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for distributed platform leadership. Roles focused on developer experience strategy and tooling roadmap ownership tend to be most remote-friendly, while positions requiring hands-on infrastructure operations often prefer some on-site presence.
How do you become a platform engineering manager?
Start by building deep hands-on experience in infrastructure, cloud, or developer tooling as an individual contributor. Move into a tech lead or staff engineer role where you own cross-team platform decisions. Then transition into management by taking on a small platform team, demonstrating you can set technical direction, grow engineers, and negotiate roadmap priorities with internal stakeholders.
Can I get a platform engineering manager role without direct management experience?
Yes, but you'll need to show leadership evidence that substitutes for a direct management title. Strong candidates without prior management experience typically have led cross-functional platform initiatives, mentored junior engineers formally, or owned a platform program with measurable adoption. Targeting companies building a platform team from scratch gives you the best shot, since they often promote experienced individual contributors into the manager role.
What does the platform engineering manager interview process look like?
Most processes include an initial recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation about your platform strategy and team leadership experience, and a technical panel covering your architectural decisions and tooling choices. Expect a system design session focused on internal developer platforms rather than customer-facing systems. A final round typically includes a cross-functional interview with engineering leaders or product partners who depend on the platform.
Where can I find and apply to platform engineering manager jobs?
You can find and apply to platform engineering manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience and specialization, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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