Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

Role description

Role Overview

The Engineering Manager will lead a team within the build, test, and deploy platform organization, guiding technical direction and partnering with senior engineers and technical leads. The role blends hands-on technical judgment with people leadership, focusing on continuous integration, build systems, artifact management, and release automation.

What You Will Do

Responsibilities include guiding technical direction, identifying opportunities to modernize workflows, upholding standards for reliability and performance, breaking down roadmap priorities into clear plans, and managing day-to-day execution.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years directly managing engineers, and a strong understanding of SDLC practices, code review workflows, and branching/release strategies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years directly managing engineers on platform, infrastructure, or internal developer teams
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Hands-on experience building or operating CI, build or artifact platforms at scale
• Solid understanding of SDLC practices, code review workflows, and branching/release strategies
• Working knowledge or hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Experience managing and mentoring engineers
• Comfortable defining, tracking, and continuously improving business metrics
• Champion of using automation and AI to reduce toil and improve velocity and quality
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms, containerization, and modern CI/build practices
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Equity awards
• Comprehensive benefits program
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption