Engineering Manager, Continuous Deployment and Change Safety

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Safe Change team. You will drive continuous-deployment infrastructure, configuration management, and feature-flagging platforms used across the company.

The role partners with product, inference, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure safe, scalable deployments. You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and own roadmaps for progressive rollouts and health checks while maintaining a high-performing,

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams and mentoring engineers.
• Hands-on background in backend or infrastructure systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native tooling.
• Strong written and verbal communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team building deployment, configuration, and feature-flagging platforms.
• Set technical direction for safe deployment of code, infra, and config.
• Collaborate with product, security, and infra to standardize safe deployments.
• Drive progressive rollout roadmaps and health-check automation.
• Define metrics for deployment safety and speed; ensure accountability.
• Represent the team in engineering org and contribute to cross-team initiatives.

Skills

Team management

Hands-on coding

Distributed systems

CI/CD & Kubernetes

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

About the company

the company’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

the company's services change constantly. Application code, infrastructure, and runtime configuration all move to production many times a day. Our Safe Change team builds the continuous‑deployment and feature‑flagging systems that make those changes safe and reliable. The continuous‑deployment platform moves a change through staged promotion, runs health checks at each phase of deployment, and gives service owners the levers to respond the moment something regresses. We provide the tools to modify runtime behavior, roll out configuration safely, and test changes. This team provides the paved path that lets everyone at the company ship frequently without trading away reliability or security.

We're looking for an engineering manager to lead this team. The continuous‑deployment platform is already widely adopted across the company, and the mandate is expanding quickly: bringing configuration changes onto the same safe path as code, supporting additional deployment surfaces, building progressive rollouts, and establishing the golden path for safe deployments that every team across the company will rely on. You'll lead a team building infrastructure that nearly every other engineer at the company depends on, and you'll partner closely with product, inference, security, and infrastructure teams to make deployment safety a standard property of the platform rather than something each team reinvents.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building the company's continuous‑deployment, configuration, and feature‑flagging platforms, owning planning, execution, and delivery against key milestones
• Set technical direction for the safe deployment of code, infrastructure, and configuration across the company's services
• Partner with product, inference, security, and infrastructure teams to migrate services onto the paved path and make safe deployment the default
• Drive the roadmap for progressive rollouts, health‑check automation, first‑class configuration deployment, and expansion to new deployment surfaces
• Define and track the metrics that measure deployment safety and speed and hold the team accountable to them
• Create clarity for the team and stakeholders in an ambiguous, fast‑moving environment where the platform is still being built out
• Take an inclusive, equitable approach to hiring, coaching, and career development, and sustain a high‑performing, healthy team
• Represent the team across the engineering organization and contribute to engineering‑wide initiatives as a member of the company's engineering management group

Minimum qualifications

• Experience managing and growing a team of software engineers
• A hands‑on software engineering background as an individual contributor prior to moving into management
• Experience building or operating backend, distributed, or infrastructure systems in production
• Working knowledge of modern deployment and cloud‑native tooling, such as CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and infrastructure‑as‑code
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clarity across teams

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including leading infrastructure, platform, or developer‑experience teams
• Experience owning continuous delivery, release engineering, or deployment‑safety systems
• Familiarity with progressive delivery techniques such as canary or blue‑green deployments and automated rollback
• Experience with feature flagging or experimentation platforms
• A background in observability, health checking, or incident response, and a track record of improving production reliability
• Experience treating configuration as a first‑class, safely deployed artifact
• A track record of building a culture of belonging and of engineering excellence
• Low ego, high empathy, and a habit of leading by example

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location‑based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary: $405,000 — $485,000 USD