Engineering Manager

Responsibilities We’re looking for a Founding Engineering Manager to join a fast-growing AI infrastructure company at a pivotal moment. You’ll work directly with the founders and a small, high-retention engineering team, including people who came up through Google, Meta, Cruise, and AWS and have chosen to stay The culture here is intentional: high craft, high trust, and high ownership. Your job is to protect that while scaling it This is a hands‑on role. You’ll be close to the technical work, close to the people doing it, and close to the decisions that shape how the team grows Engineering Leadership — Mentor and grow a high‑performing team across full‑stack, customer, and forward‑deployed engineering. Run regular 1:1s, give clear feedback, and build the conditions where engineers do their best work and stay Team Scaling — Own onboarding for new engineers so they ramp quickly and become productive. Partner with founders on hiring and career development as the org grows beyond its founding core Technical Execution — Spend approximately 20% of your time doing IC work — staying close to the codebase and tooling. Drive project management for customer deliverables, especially work that spans multiple engineers or product areas Engineering Culture — Create the conditions for engineers to ship fast: code maintainability, internal documentation, development workflows, QA tools and automation. Lead by example on AI‑accelerated development — advocate for using AI to improve velocity while maintaining reliability and quality Security & Compliance — Own security and compliance alongside our Founding Operations Lead, including SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR Distributed Collaboration — Manage project‑based contract engineers and globally distributed connector contributors Qualifications Experience with Go, TypeScript, React, or similar stacks is a plus You’ve led teams through complex technical initiatives and are excited to do it again Background in developer tools, APIs, infrastructure platforms, or AI‑native products is preferred You build engineering culture, not just org charts: Ownership, craft, and accountability are things you’ve actually installed somewhere before Strong technical judgment — you can go deep on architecture and system design when it matters Significant software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading engineering teams in a startup or high‑growth environment (even if you didn’t hold a formal Manager title) Excellent written communication; the team is async‑first and decisions travel in writing #J-18808-Ljbffr