Manager, Software Engineering (R5966)

Build and lead the Shared Services Engineering team, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development

Define and execute the team’s roadmap, balancing customer needs, cross-product priorities, operational health, and long-term technical investment

Partner with product and engineering teams to identify shared capabilities, establish ownership and integration boundaries, and guide initiatives including shared authentication, telemetry integrations, the Customer Support Portal, and future public telemetry APIs

Lead the architecture, delivery, and operation of shared services, SDKs, APIs, and customer-facing systems

Establish secure, reliable, documented, and versioned interfaces for internal engineering teams and external customers

Communicate plans, progress, risks, and tradeoffs across engineering, product, and organizational leadership

7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience managing engineers responsible for production software

Demonstrated technical judgment in the design and operation of full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems

Strategic systems thinking and the ability to turn recurring needs across products into coherent, reusable capabilities

Track record of setting technical direction, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and executing across immediate and long-term priorities

Effective cross-functional leadership, with the ability to build alignment and trusted partnerships across engineering, product, and organizational stakeholders

Track record of leading teams that build shared services and customer-facing applications from scratch and own them through production operation

Depth in one or more relevant domains, such as identity and authentication, public APIs and SDKs, or OpenTelemetry and high-volume telemetry data

Experience establishing a new engineering capability, consolidating fragmented ownership, or driving adoption across multiple product teams

Experience building and operating secure, reliable software in regulated or compliance-driven environments

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Full-time regular employee offer package:

Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package:

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

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