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Senior Engineering Manager

RECRUITMENT PARTNERS INC.

Edmonton

Remote

CAD 130,000 - 160,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in Canada is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to guide globally distributed engineering teams and deliver high-performing SaaS solutions. This strategic role requires strong leadership, a background in cloud-native environments, and expertise in performance management. The ideal candidate will foster a culture of innovation and lead the optimization of engineering practices while ensuring compliance with data security standards.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience managing product engineering teams in cloud-native SaaS environments.
  • Expertise in performance management, coaching, and career development.
  • Strong leadership in remote-first and globally distributed team environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and structure globally distributed engineering teams to achieve company objectives.
  • Ensure the delivery of scalable, high-quality features aligned with product and business priorities.
  • Oversee recruitment strategies and lead hiring initiatives in collaboration with HR.

Skills

Leadership
Communication
Problem-solving
Agile practices
Cloud-native SaaS
Budget management

Tools

AWS
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD

Job description

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 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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