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Manager — Cloud Platform (Traffic)

Despegar · Buenos Aires

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
54 days
Despegar's roles stay open a median of 50 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Despegar's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Despegar
high
52 stale, 6 reposted of 94 open
Hiring momentum
194 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-28

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Despegar's own lever board since 2026-08-04. Full hiring picture for Despegar.

About this role

The Engineering Manager for the Traffic team within Cloud Platform at Despegar will lead a team responsible for the traffic infrastructure stack, including ingress, load balancing, service mesh, and API gateways, ensuring efficient, secure, and scalable traffic flow on AWS and Kubernetes. This role combines engineering leadership with technical involvement, as the manager will prioritize the roadmap and collaborate with platform consumers, impacting the overall business while managing around 2,000 microservices and 10 million requests per minute.

Our read on this posting2.2out of 5
benefits
2/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Despegar as an employer.

What you need

  • Experience in engineering management
  • Strong technical background in cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS and Kubernetes
  • Ability to prioritize roadmaps and manage technical efforts
  • Experience with traffic management components like ingress, load balancing, service mesh, and API gateways

What you get

  • Real autonomy to make decisions and impact from day one
  • Culture of continuous learning
  • Diverse and collaborative team environment
  • Opportunities for growth in a global ecosystem (Prosus)

Worth weighing

  • No dedicated Product Manager, which may increase the managerial workload
  • The role involves balancing technical effort with business impact, which could be challenging

Summarised from Despegar's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Despegar on their lever job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-28. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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