Software Engineering Manager, SDK

Role Description

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the SDK team — the team responsible primarily for building and maintaining the App SDK project, our framework of typed React hooks that lets developers build focused, real-time content applications on top of Sanity.

Leading an engineering team at Sanity means owning strategy, roadmap, and execution alongside your product and design partners. You'll do that by working with excellent people and creating an environment where they can do the best work of their careers.

This is a player-coach role. You'll spend most of your time on people, priorities, and delivery — but you'll stay close enough to the code to review PRs, unblock hard problems, and guide API design.

You'll also join a growing group of engineering managers shaping the culture of our Engineering organization, working closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, Principal Engineers, and technical leaders across the company.

What you would do

• Lead and grow a team of engineers — help them prioritize for impact, grow in their careers, and do the best work of their lives.
• Own strategy, roadmap, and execution — work closely with your product and design partners to decide what to build, and make sure it ships.
• Set technical direction — guide architecture decisions that balance velocity with maintainability across a large-scale TypeScript codebase.
• Design APIs developers actually enjoy — plan and ship beautiful, minimal APIs that let internal and external developers solve high-level problems.
• Stay hands-on — contribute through technical reviews, pairing, and code where it helps the team most.
• Build in the open — run an open-source project well: triage, contribution paths, changelogs, and a community that trusts your releases.
• Champion developer experience — automatic type generation, hot reload, one-command deploy.
• Measure adoption — SDK adoption, apps deployed, time-to-first-app.
• Collaborate across the company — align with engineering leadership, product, design, DevRel, and partnerships on shared goals.

Qualifications

• Based in San Francisco/Bay Area or remote in the United States.
• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience, including 5+ years as a software engineer.
• Deep experience with TypeScript and React — state management, hooks, module systems and bundling, and core browser concepts.
• Experience with Go, Vite, or Zustand is a plus.
• You've built libraries, SDKs, or developer tools that other engineers depend on.
• Experience working at a product or SaaS company as an engineering manager or senior engineer.
• Experience working closely with product managers and designers to deliver for both technical and non-technical users.
• Comfortable working with remote and distributed teams.
• You communicate technical designs clearly and concisely, in writing and out loud.
• Pragmatic. You care about getting it right, and you care more about not blocking the people who depend on you.
• You care about the people you work with and have real empathy for the developers using what your team builds.

Requirements

• You've maintained a meaningful open-source project and have opinions about what makes a good one.
• Experience with API or SDK design at a developer platform company.
• A strong point of view on how AI-assisted development changes what a good SDK looks like.
• Experience with automated browser testing and Node.js.
• Startup experience.

Benefits

• A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team.
• Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth.
• A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers.
• Comprehensive health plans and perks.
• A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs.
• Competitive salary and stock options program.

Company Description

Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort.

Sanity recently raised a $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound and is also backed by leading investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify, as well as founders of companies like Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify and Heroku. This funding round has put Sanity in a strong position for accelerated growth in the coming years.

Sanity is a 200+ person company with highly committed and ambitious people. We are pioneers, we exist for our customers, we are hel ved, and we love type two fun!

Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services.