Senior Engineering Manager
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)
Your strengths include :
Proven experience managing product engineering teams in cloud-native SaaS environmentsTrack record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organizationsExpertise in performance management, coaching, and career developmentStrong leadership in remote-first and globally distributed team environmentsExperience partnering with cross-functional teams including Product, HR, and Business OperationsDeep understanding of Agile practices and modern SDLCStrong budget management and business acumenExcellent communication, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skillsDeep 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 strategiesExperience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)Containerization and orchestration expertise (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)Serverless architecture and microservices developmentCI / CD pipelines and quality automation frameworksObservability 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 authorizationFamiliarity with compliance and security frameworks (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA is a bonus)FinOps principles and experience optimizing cloud infrastructure costExperience managing through rapid scale or post-product-market fit growth is an assetBackground in data engineering, ML / AI infrastructure, or DevOps tooling is an assetExperience working with Salesforce, Outlook / Exchange, or CRM integration platforms is an assetExperience leading strategic engineering initiatives across multiple teams is an asset