Head of Developer Productivity & Automation (AWS/K8s)

Motion Recruitment; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

PTO

401(k)

Hybrid Work Environment

Job summary

Motion Recruitment in Boston seeks a Lead Productivity Engineer to guide a team focused on engineering productivity, software delivery infrastructure, and internal tooling. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and drive strategic initiatives across the organization.

While hands-on, this role emphasizes leadership and cross-functional collaboration to improve how software is built, tested, deployed, and operated in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading engineers, engineering teams, or major technical initiatives.
• Strong hands-on background in backend software engineering.
• Experience working within cloud-native environments.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized applications.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools and automation frameworks.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience improving engineering productivity and development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers focused on engineering productivity and software delivery.
• Remain technically engaged by contributing to architecture discussions, technical design reviews, automation initiatives, and key engineering projects.
• Improve development, testing, deployment, and operational workflows across the engineering organization.
• Build and enhance internal tools that improve developer efficiency and reduce operational friction.
• Drive initiatives around automation, CI/CD, observability, testing, and infrastructure reliability.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and improve software delivery performance.
• Establish best practices for software delivery, monitoring, automation, and development workflows.
• Evaluate emerging technologies that help engineering teams work more effectively.
• Lead strategic engineering initiatives from planning and architecture through production deployment.
• Help shape long-term engineering strategy and organizational effectiveness.]

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Backend engineering

Cloud-native environments

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Productivity improvement

Tools

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Motion Recruitment in Boston seeks a Lead Productivity Engineer to guide a team focused on engineering productivity, software delivery infrastructure, and internal tooling. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and drive strategic initiatives across the organization.

While hands-on, this role emphasizes leadership and cross-functional collaboration to improve how software is built, tested, deployed, and operated in a fast-growing SaaS environment.