rdccareers

Senior Manager of Microservices

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At a Glance

Location
Austin, Texas, United States
Experience
8+ years
Posted
2026-02-25T16:57:22-05:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSKubernetesREST API

Domain Knowledge

  • Cloud
  • E-commerce
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Real Estate

Requirements

You're a proven engineering leader with deep expertise in API management, distributed systems, and security architecture. You understand that great platforms aren't just about technology—they're about developer experience, reliability, and making the right patterns easy to adopt.

Experience:

8+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure; 3+ years leading engineering teams as a manager.

Domain Expertise:

Expert-level knowledge in at least two domains: API Gateway technologies (Tyk, Kong, Apigee), GraphQL/Apollo Federation, or Security Engineering (Kasada, PerimeterX, Cloudflare).

Compensation & Benefits

13 Paid Holidays

Flexible Time Off

8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off

Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match

Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs

1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Development

Build and lead three specialized platform teams (Frontdoor, Pantheon, Product Security) with 8-12 individual contributors.

Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent with expertise in API management, GraphQL federation, and security engineering.

Create career development frameworks and technical growth paths; conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and team planning.

Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and developer-first thinking across platform services.

Establish team structures and on-call rotations that balance operational excellence with innovation.

About the Company

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work

three or more days in our offices in Austin, TX

, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.