Our client is searching for a Senior Engineering Manager to join their team. This strategic leadership role is responsible for guiding globally distributed engineering teams, ensuring the delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing SaaS solutions. The ideal candidate will bring a balance of technical depth, people leadership, and operational excellence to foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
Your success will be defined by your ability to:
- Lead and structure globally distributed engineering teams to achieve company objectives
- Provide direct management to Engineering Managers, Team Leads, and QA Leads; conduct regular 1:1s and skip-level meetings
- Oversee performance management, goal setting, career development planning, and annual compensation reviews
- Ensure the delivery of scalable, high-quality features aligned with product and business priorities
- Foster an inclusive, supportive team culture grounded in psychological safety and technical excellence
- Partner with Product leadership to ensure effective resource allocation and strategic execution
- Drive engineering roadmap planning and contribute to Program Increment (PI) goal achievement
- Define, monitor, and report on key engineering KPIs (e.g., DORA metrics, quality metrics, velocity, eNPS, budget adherence)
- Oversee recruitment strategies and lead hiring initiatives in collaboration with HR
- Manage engineering budgets and optimize SaaS infrastructure costs through efficient architecture and operations
- Champion engineering best practices and promote continuous improvement across the SDLC
- Lead innovation projects and cross-functional technical initiatives that drive business impact
- Ensure compliance with data security and privacy standards (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR)
- Proven experience managing product engineering teams in cloud-native SaaS environments
- Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations
- Expertise in performance management, coaching, and career development
- Strong leadership in remote-first and globally distributed team environments
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams including Product, HR, and Business Operations
- Deep understanding of Agile practices and modern SDLC
- Strong budget management and business acumen
- Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Deep experience with AWS core services (IAM, EC2, VPC, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of SaaS architecture, including multi-tenancy, scalability, and uptime strategies
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Containerization and orchestration expertise (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
- Serverless architecture and microservices development
- CI/CD pipelines and quality automation frameworks
- Observability and incident response practices (monitoring, logging, tracing with tools like CloudWatch, Splunk)
- Modern API design (REST, GraphQL, API Gateway patterns)
- Secure development practices, including IAM policies, authentication, and authorization
- Familiarity with compliance and security frameworks (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA is a bonus)
- FinOps principles and experience optimizing cloud infrastructure cost
- Experience managing through rapid scale or post-product-market fit growth is an asset
- Background in data engineering, ML/AI infrastructure, or DevOps tooling is an asset
- Experience working with Salesforce, Outlook/Exchange, or CRM integration platforms is an asset
- Experience leading strategic engineering initiatives across multiple teams is an asset
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