Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Formation Bio is a tech and AI driven pharma company differentiated by radically more efficient drug development.

Advancements in AI and drug discovery are creating more candidate drugs than the industry can progress because of the high cost and time of clinical trials. Recognizing that this development bottleneck may ultimately limit the number of new medicines that can reach patients, Formation Bio, founded in 2016 as TrialSpark Inc., has built technology platforms, processes, and capabilities to accelerate all aspects of drug development and clinical trials. Formation Bio partners, acquires, or in-licenses drugs from pharma companies, research organizations, and biotechs to develop programs past clinical proof of concept and beyond, ultimately helping to bring new medicines to patients. The company is backed by investors across pharma and tech, including a16z, Sequoia, Sanofi, Thrive Capital, John Doerr, Spark Capital, SV Angel Growth, and others.

• Our Vision for AI in Pharma

• Our Current Drug Portfolio

• Our Technology & Platform

At Formation Bio, our values are the driving force behind our mission to revolutionize the pharma industry. Every team and individual at the company shares these same values, and every team and individual plays a key part in our mission to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.

As the Engineering Manager for Infrastructure at Formation Bio, you will lead the team responsible for the reliability, security, and operational foundation of our engineering organization. You will set technical direction, develop a high-performing team, and create the systems and operating practices that allow engineers to ship quickly and safely. You're accountable for the pace, reliability, and quality of the systems your team builds and operates, and for creating the conditions in which engineers can grow, perform at a high level, and sustain that performance over time.

Formation Bio is an AI-native engineering organization, and Infrastructure has a central role in defining what that means operationally. You and your team will develop the systems, access patterns, guardrails, delivery workflows, and observability needed for engineers and agents to build and operate production software safely. We are looking for a leader with a credible point of view on how infrastructure and software delivery should evolve as AI-assisted and agent-authored code becomes a larger part of our systems. You do not need to have solved every aspect of the agentic SDLC already, but you should be actively exploring the space and capable of turning emerging practices into reliable engineering systems.

You will partner closely with engineering, data science, tech ops, security, and domain experts across the drug development organization, representing Infrastructure and SRE in cross-functional planning and promoting strong reliability practices throughout the company.

This position is ideal for a manager who leads from the front: someone who is passionate about developing engineers, sets an urgent, high bar for the team's pace and quality, and is restless about finding the next thing that's slowing the org down before it becomes a blocker. Your experience with engineering management, technical leadership, and infrastructure operations will be instrumental in driving Formation Bio's mission to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.

• Hire, coach, and develop a team of infrastructure and site reliability