Engineering Manager

About the role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to own team delivery, execution, and people leadership, ensuring engineering teams deliver high-quality outcomes in a predictable and sustainable way. This role owns how work gets delivered and how teams perform—not system-wide technical direction—and is a key partner to Product in turning plans into predictable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Own delivery of team commitments: scope, timelines, and quality.
• Build and lead high-performing engineering teams.
• Drive execution practices: planning, estimation, and delivery cadence.
• Ensure clear ownership and accountability within the team.
• Hire, develop, and retain engineers.
• Maintain team health, engagement, and performance.
• Partner with Product and Design on planning and prioritization.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and delivery trade-offs.
• Ensure operational excellence at the team level, including on-call, incidents, and reliability.

Required Skills

• Proven experience managing software engineering teams, including direct people leadership in hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Track record of owning delivery of team commitments: scope, timelines, and quality in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong command of execution practices: sprint or iteration planning, estimation, and delivery cadence.
• Experience partnering with Product and Design to negotiate scope and priorities.
• Comfort managing risk, dependencies, and delivery trade-offs across a team.
• Experience owning team-level operational excellence, including on-call and incident response.
• Track record of building and driving process from the ground up with high autonomy.
• Strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners, not just direct reports.
• Proven ability to independently build the case for hiring and capacity needs, not just execute against a pre-set plan.
• Comfort creating clarity and structure in ambiguous or fast-changing environments.

Preferred Skills

• Experience partnering with Principal or Staff engineers on architecture alignment, without owning it directly.
• Background scaling a team through significant headcount or product growth.
• Experience operating in a fully remote, distributed team environment.
• Familiarity with working in a SOC 2 or similarly compliance-driven engineering organization.