Software Engineering Manager
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Lead a team of software engineers to deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes. Define clear objectives and measurable outcomes, establish priorities, and create accountability for execution and results. Own the technical quality and engineering outcomes of the team. Stay deeply connected to the architecture, codebase, engineering systems, and operational health of the services your team owns. Drive engineering excellence across design, implementation, testing, deployment, security, reliability, performance, and maintainability using AI to improve engineering quality and effectiveness.Build a culture where engineers solve root causes, make data-driven decisions, and leave systems better than they found them. Drive execution with urgency and focus. Translate customer and business priorities into an executable engineering plan, identify dependencies and risks early, make appropriate tradeoffs, and maintain clarity on progress and outcomes. Operate and improve production services at scale. Establish a strong live-site culture, use incidents and operational data to identify systemic improvements, and hold a high bar for service reliability and customer experience. Develop and grow engineers. Lead, grow, coach, hire, and retain a high-performing team of engineers. Provide clear, actionable feedback and create opportunities for engineers to grow their technical capabilities, ownership, and impact. Collaborate across organizational and discipline boundaries. Build effective partnerships with product, engineering, and other stakeholders to resolve dependencies and deliver end-to-end customer outcomes. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline AND 10+ years of experience in software engineering, OR equivalent experience. 3+ years of software engineering people management experience. 5+ years of experience launching and shipping multiple iterations of products to customers. Experience leading technical projects and working with engineers and cross-functional partners to deliver software from design through production. * Demonstrated technical depth in areas such as distributed systems, cloud services, large-scale data processing, and storage or big data platforms. Self-starter with strong engineering judgment, communication skills, demonstrated ability to influence across teams, and a bias toward action and results. Proven ability to collaborate across teams, disciplines, and levels of management while contributing to a healthy, inclusive engineering culture. Demonstrated customer empathy and a passion for delivering high-quality experiences and measurable customer outcomes. Experience with Azure cloud technologies and large-scale distributed data processing platforms such as Apache Spark. Experience developing and shipping AI-powered features, including experience with LLMs. Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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