# Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering

Zappi helps some of the world’s biggest brands test ideas before they spend money bringing them to life. That means new products, ads, names, packaging and flavours. Our customers make big decisions on our data, so it has to be accurate, fast and affordable. We make around $100M in revenue. Our product engineering team is about 90 people, based in London and Cape Town. Why this role exists AI has changed how we write code. Throughput at Zappi keeps going up, and the bottleneck is moving to everything around the code. That means environments, config, deploys and access, plus keeping more and more of it running safely and cheaply. That’s the space Platform Engineering works in. The team runs our core infrastructure and AI workloads, and builds the developer platform our engineers use to set up, deploy, configure and monitor their apps. Infrastructure and app setup are defined as data, which is what makes the platform flexible. In the last month, teams and automations completed over 20,000 deployments, 5,600 of them to production, all without needing us. Anything we make easier gives time back to the rest of engineering. Next, we want agents working on that same platform. Picture one

- **Id**: 3404166
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zappi-senior-engineering-manager>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cape Town, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-27T15:36:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T03:17:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 11
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6108
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Market Research

## Company

- **Id**: 172542
- **Name**: Zappi
- **Domain**: zappi.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zappi>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Pinpoint

## Salary

- **Min**: 1090000
- **Currency**: ZAR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 69708

## Technologies

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- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
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- **Cloudflare** — Optional: no
- **Elixir** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Mimir** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Trunk-Based Development** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 11

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Saudi Arabia** — Iso: SA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-28T15:36:17Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 81
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 10
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 69708
- **Is top pay**: no

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