Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of engineers while remaining close to technology and technical judgment.

What you'll do

• Own team delivery, health, and growth through planning, execution, and shipping.
• Hire, grow, and retain engineers; run 1:1s, performance management, and career development.
• Set and raise engineering standards, processes, and ways of working.
• Provide technical direction and pressure-test decisions without micromanaging.
• Partner with product, design, and leadership; manage up and across.
• Own incident and on-call ownership as part of team-level operational excellence.

What you'll need

• 8–12 years of total engineering experience.
• 3+ years of direct engineering leadership (people management).
• Track record of hiring, growing, and retaining engineers with positive retention and team-health outcomes.
• Delivery ownership across one or more teams and strong cross-functional partnership.
• Engineering foundation comparable to a Staff Engineer, including architecture and technical direction across multiple services/teams.
• Deep distributed systems and cloud-native architecture knowledge.
• Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field is preferred (not required).

Nice to have

• AI platform architecture experience.
• Agentic systems / LLM infrastructure experience.

Details

• Role is listed as based in San Francisco, California.