Senior Engineering Manager

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required:

8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in a formal people management capacity.

Management Scope: Proven experience managing multiple engineering teams or managing other Engineering Managers/Team Leads.

Technical Foundation: A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

Cloud Proficiency: Hands-on experience operating and deploying production workloads specifically on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda).

Agile Mastery: Strong experience leading teams within a standard Agile/Scrum framework, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.

DevOps Fundamentals: Demonstrated ability to manage and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.

Preferred:

Cloud Expertise: Advanced knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

Architectural Strategy: Experience overseeing the migration from monolithic architectures to microservices or serverless environments.

Performance Metrics: Ability to use DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, MTTR, Change Failure Rate) to drive operational improvements.

Talent Development: A track record of successfully mentoring Senior Engineers into Staff/Principal roles and developing high-potential junior managers.

Observability: Familiarity with modern monitoring and observability stacks such as Datadog, New Relic, or AWS CloudWatch.

Business Acumen: Experience partnering closely with Product and Design leaders to influence the long-term product roadmap and resource allocation.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $127k-191k. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.. This salary (or salary range) is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 6/30/26.

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer. To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes. Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

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