Requirements

Significant software engineering experience before or alongside engineering management
Experience managing senior, autonomous engineers
Strong background in platform engineering, developer infrastructure, developer productivity, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems
Experience with CI/CD, release engineering, developer tooling, or internal engineering platforms
Experience owning roadmaps and delivering multi-quarter engineering initiatives
Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and engineering practices
Experience managing technical debt alongside product and business priorities
Ability to understand complex technical discussions without needing to personally own every implementation decision
Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills
Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers
A pragmatic approach to engineering processes: enough structure to make teams effective, without unnecessary bureaucracy

What You'll Be Doing

Manage and develop experienced engineers with significant ownership of their technical domains
Responsible for regular 1:1s, feedback, performance management, career development, hiring, onboarding, and team health
Create an environment where engineers can remain highly autonomous while having clear priorities, ownership, and accountability

Work closely with Product Managers and department VP to define how the products look, what to build and in which order
Ensure high-quality products with Quality Engineering and Product Security teams

The team owns several interconnected technical areas; you will:

Own planning and operational execution across multiple engineering workstreams
Create visibility into priorities, dependencies, timelines, and resource allocation
Help the team turn broad technical direction into an executable roadmap
Identify and remove blockers before they significantly impact delivery

Participate in technical discussions, reviewing designs and architecture proposals
Understand engineering trade-offs and challenge assumptions when needed
Enable senior engineers in making technical decisions effectively

Comfortable with engineers understanding individual systems more deeply than you do
Create clarity, help engineers make good decisions together
Find and solve problems in the engineering system itself
Align team roadmap with requirements from different stakeholders
Combine technical credibility with strong people and execution leadership