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# Cloud Platform Engineering Manager at Five9

- **Company:** Five9
- **Location:** Colombia
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://www.five9.com/about/careers/job-detail?gh_jid=6238401004

## Job description

Join us in bringing joy to customer experience.  Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software, bringing the power of cloud innovation to customers worldwide.

Living our values everyday results in our team-first culture and enables us to innovate, grow, and thrive while enjoying the journey together. We celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive environment, empowering our employees to be their authentic selves.

As part of the Product Engineering organization, the Cloud Platform Engineering Manager will lead a team responsible for building, operating, and continuously improving cloud platform capabilities that support highly available, scalable, and secure services.

This role blends hands-on technical leadership with people and operational management. You will be accountable for platform reliability, execution excellence, and team growth, while partnering closely with Product Engineering, Platform, and SRE leaders to deliver resilient cloud infrastructure at scale.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader with production experience, a passion for operational excellence, and proven ability to mentor engineers and drive outcomes in fast-paced environments.

The position involves shift-aligned coverage with U.S. Pacific Time hours and ownership of an on-call rotation, including escalation management.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud platforms supporting production services.
- Provide technical direction and review for architecture, automation, and operational improvements.
- Drive continuous improvement in reliability metrics such as availability, MTTD, MTTR, and incident reduction.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, learning, and operational excellence.
- Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning.
- Balance workload, shift coverage, and on-call rotations to maintain team health and sustainability.
- Own incident response processes, including escalation, coordination, and communication.
- Work closely with Product Engineering, Platform, SRE, and Delivery teams to enable fast, reliable software releases.
- Establish and evolve operational processes, runbooks, and documentation standards.

Requirements:

- 8–12+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, or production operations.
- 3–5+ years of experience leading or managing engineering teams (formal or technical leadership).
- Strong hands-on background supporting production systems and incident response.
- Experience operating and managing public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, OpenStack); data center experience preferred.
- Deep understanding of:
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm, Docker)
- CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows (e.g., GitLab)
- Networking, databases, and distributed systems
- Proven ability to balance hands-on technical depth with people and delivery management.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Five9 embraces diversity and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  The more inclusive we are, the better we are.  Five9 is an equal opportunity employer.

Five9 is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and interview process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@five9.com to request an accommodation. Requests will be handled confidentially and in accordance with applicable law.

View our privacy policy, including our privacy notice to California residents here: https://www.five9.com/pt-pt/legal.

Note: Five9 will never request that an applicant send money as a prerequisite for commencing employment with Five9.

## About Five9

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Five9 provides a leading cloud contact center platform (CCaaS) that enables organizations to deliver digital engagement, analytics, workforce optimization, and AI-powered customer experiences.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: FIVN)
- **Headquarters**: San Ramon, California, USA (with additional offices in San Francisco, Toronto, London, Munich, Porto, Madrid, São Paulo, and Mandaluyong City)
- **Founded**: 2001
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Cloud Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS), Customer Experience (CX) software, AI & Automation, Workforce Optimization
- **Target customers**: Enterprise, mid-market, and SMB organizations across all verticals (B2B/B2C)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Our vision is to make customer service a more human experience.” [five9.com](https://www.five9.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Five9 Cloud Contact Center Platform**: Core omnichannel contact center solution (voice, email, chat, SMS, social) with intelligent routing and IVR.
- **Digital Engagement**: Integrated digital channels including SMS, web chat, email, and social messaging.
- **Five9 Analytics**: Real-time and historical reporting, speech analytics, and sentiment analysis to improve agent performance and customer outcomes.
- **Workforce Optimization (WFO)**: Workforce management, quality management, and recording (acquired Virtual Observer in 2021).
- **AI & Automation Suite**:
  - **Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA)**: Conversational AI chatbot and voice bot for self-service (acquired Inference Solutions in 2021).
  - **Agent Assist 2.0**: AI-powered real-time agent guidance and summarization (using OpenAI).
  - **Voice AI Agents**: Generative AI agents for automated customer interactions.
- **Professional Services**: Implementation, integration, and consulting services.
- **Aceyus VUE**: Data and reporting integration platform (acquired in 2022).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Publicly traded; specific metrics not provided in available sources.
- **Key Metric**: Over 3,000 customers worldwide; 350,000+ agents using the platform; 2,600+ employees; 1,450+ technology and channel partners. [five9.com](https://www.five9.com/about)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: BT (expanded partnership for cloud adoption), MCM Telecom, XTT Mexico; partners include global SIs and technology vendors. Acquisitions: Acqueon, Aceyus VUE, Inference Solutions, Virtual Observer.
- **Growth Signals**: Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CCaaS (8th time); opened new European engineering hub in Porto, Portugal; expanded LATAM partnerships; introduced Agent Assist 2.0 with AI Summary; won Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award for Best Places to Work (2022). [five9.com](https://www.five9.com/about)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cloud-native heritage**: Born in the cloud in 2001, with 20+ years of CCaaS experience.
- **Analyst recognition**: Consistently named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant, Forrester Wave, IDC MarketScape, and Aragon Research Globe.
- **High customer satisfaction**: 86 Net Promoter Score (NPS) for professional services.
- **Comprehensive AI portfolio**: Integrated IVA, Agent Assist, and Voice AI Agents differentiate from competitors.
- **Scale and reliability**: Manages billions of call minutes annually across 2,600+ concurrent agent seats (average).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first innovation**: Continued investment in generative AI and conversational AI to automate and enhance customer interactions.
- **Global expansion**: Strengthening presence in LATAM (new partnerships), EMEA (engineering hub in Portugal), and APAC.
- **Platform depth**: Integrating acquisitions (Acqueon, Aceyus, Inference Solutions) to provide end-to-end CX and WFO capabilities.
- **Partner ecosystem**: Deepening relationships with systems integrators and telcos (e.g., BT) to accelerate cloud migration.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, start-up-like environment with established enterprise customers; values include honesty, respect, inclusion, transparency, ownership, and customer focus. [five9.com](https://www.five9.com/about/careers)
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where employees are empowered and heard. [five9.com](https://www.five9.com/about/careers/jobs)
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated; offices in multiple locations suggest hybrid/office model.
- **Benefits** (US full-time): 100% employer-paid health insurance (choice of 4 medical plans), dental, vision, life/disability insurance, 401(k), FSA, employee assistance program, commuter discounts, company equity, accrued PTO + paid holidays, company events. [five9.com](https://www.five9.com/about/careers)
- **Recognition**: Received Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award for Best Places to Work (2022). [five9.com](https://www.five9.com/about)
- **Growth opportunities**: Internship program with impactful work and exposure to executives; career paths across development, customer success, sales, marketing, finance, and professional services.

## Sources
1. [Five9 About Page](https://www.five9.com/about)
2. [Five9 Careers Overview](https://www.five9.com/about/careers)
3. [Five9 Fact Sheet](https://www.five9.com/resources/five9-company-fact-sheet)
4. [Five9 Careers – Job Listings](https://www.five9.com/about/careers/jobs)

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