Engineering Manager, AI Runtime & Platform

Arcade.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcade.dev is hiring a senior engineering leader to scale a distributed team building a secure, enterprise-ready runtime for AI tools and actions. You’ll own technical direction, ensure reliability, and drive platform architectures across SaaS and on-prem deployments.

You will mentor engineers, shape product roadmaps, and ship high-impact features while maintaining culture and velocity in a fast-growing startup environment. Strong Go/TS/Python experience and AI focus are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in engineering leadership.
• Proven success managing and scaling high-performing teams.
• Deep experience deploying and monitoring software both as a SaaS platform and on-prem.
• Strong architectural instincts and ability to align technical direction with business outcomes.
• Passion for building frameworks that empower other developers to win.
• Excellent communication skills and cross-functional leadership.
• A desire to use LLMs/AI throughout all parts of the software development lifecycle, and to teach folks how to do that well.
• An insatiable desire to ship and continuously improve.

Responsibilities

• Be ultimately responsible for the deliverables, stability, and uptime of your team, and empowered to grow and modify these goals as the business matures.
• Ensure a consistent product vision and architecture for the team, and help shape the team & company roadmap - you will be the primary owner of technical direction, prioritization, and execution for the team’s work, in close partnership with Product and the founders.
• Hire and Mentor talented engineers and help shape their technical and career growth. You’ll be managing a team of 6 very senior engineers, many of whom have been startup CTOs themselves, with the goal of growing (and then splitting) your team by the end of the year.
• Define and deliver the next most important platform features for our customers.
• Ship high-impact features at scale while ensuring reliability, security, and enterprise readiness.
• Build leverage into the system - Transform week-long tasks into minutes through automation and agents.

Skills

Leadership

Team scaling

Architectural vision

Cross-functional leadership

Software delivery

LLMs/AI

Communication

Tools

Go

TypeScript

Python

Job description

Arcade.dev is hiring a senior engineering leader to scale a distributed team building a secure, enterprise-ready runtime for AI tools and actions. You’ll own technical direction, ensure reliability, and drive platform architectures across SaaS and on-prem deployments.

You will mentor engineers, shape product roadmaps, and ship high-impact features while maintaining culture and velocity in a fast-growing startup environment. Strong Go/TS/Python experience and AI focus are essential.