Engineering Manager, Platform - Cloud Infrastructure

Position Overview

• Location Type: Hybrid (New York City, San Francisco, Remote)
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Valon is a company focused on empowering homeowners through mortgage servicing and transforming the industry. They are building a modern software ecosystem and have a growing team of engineers, operators, and professionals. The company is headquartered in New York City with a new office opening in San Francisco and supports remote work.

About the Company

Valon’s mission is to empower every homeowner. They believe the journey of home ownership starts when you get your keys, but lasts far beyond. Valon is creating a world where home ownership comes with ease, security, and financial know-how. Their engineering team is focused on building a scalable platform for managing billions in assets and supporting rapid product iteration.

About the Role

We’re seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Cloud Infrastructure efforts on the Platform team. You’ll manage and grow a high-impact team responsible for the foundational infrastructure powering all of Valon’s products. You’ll work across all our production systems (compute, databases, storage, and networking)—ensuring our platform is scalable, secure, and reliable. The team handles over 100 million background jobs per day and expects to scale over 10x in the next 2 years.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 5+ engineers focused on infrastructure and platform tooling.
• Own technical strategy, planning, and execution for core platform initiatives, with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and security.
• Act as a strong technical advisor and guide architecture decisions.
• Write code when needed and deeply understand how our systems work.
• Operate with a product management mindset, balancing near-term priorities with long-term platform vision.
• Partner closely with engineering, product, and operations to define and deliver cross-cutting infrastructure initiatives.
• Implement 360° feedback and continuous development for team members.

Responsibilities

• Adopt new data stores that support growth: Vitess, Clickhouse, Redis.
• Scale our batch processing control plane for faster component creation and fulfillment.
• Build a production-equivalent sandbox environment for customer testing and demos.

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