Manager – Engineering

domains; United States; Remote; USD 112,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

domains is seeking a senior engineering leader to oversee the services, applications, databases, and APIs powering a domain and internet infrastructure platform. You will combine people leadership with hands-on technical direction, delivery ownership, production support, and architecture collaboration.

You will hire and mentor engineers, plan releases, guide design decisions, and drive reliability and incident response.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software or computer engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least six years of software engineering experience, including backend development, system design, and production applications.
• At least two years of engineering management experience with direct people leadership.
• Strong experience with Python or Go.
• Experience with Agile methods, automated testing, CI, Git, production support, and incident response.
• Experience leading or working with distributed teams and AI-assisted development tools with validation and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and support engineers through regular feedback, career development, and performance management.
• Plan and coordinate engineering work, releases, priorities, and resolution of blockers.
• Guide architecture and design decisions, review code, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to production software.
• Turn product and business needs into technical plans while balancing roadmap work, technical debt, and operational priorities.
• Coordinate initiatives across engineering, product, operations, quality, and design teams.
• Improve system reliability, performance, security, observability, testing, and incident response practices.

Skills

Backend development

System design

People leadership

Python

Go

Agile methods

Automated testing

Continuous integration

Production support

Incident response

Distributed teams

AI-assisted tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software or computer engineering, or a related technical field

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Role overview

Lead an engineering team responsible for the services, applications, databases, and APIs behind a domain and internet infrastructure platform. The role combines people leadership with hands‑on technical direction, delivery ownership, production support, and collaboration on broader architecture and platform strategy.

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and support engineers through regular feedback, career development, and performance management.
• Plan and coordinate engineering work, releases, priorities, and resolution of blockers.
• Guide architecture and design decisions, review code, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to production software.
• Turn product and business needs into technical plans while balancing roadmap work, technical debt, and operational priorities.
• Coordinate initiatives across engineering, product, operations, quality, and design teams.
• Improve system reliability, performance, security, observability, testing, and incident response practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software or computer engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least six years of software engineering experience, including backend development, system design, and production applications.
• At least two years of engineering management experience with direct people leadership.
• Strong experience with Python, Go, or a similar backend language.
• Experience with Agile methods, automated testing, continuous integration, Git, production support, and incident response.
• Experience leading or working with distributed engineering teams, and using AI‑assisted development tools with appropriate validation and security practices.

Nice to have

• Experience with event‑driven systems and message brokers; internet protocols such as DNS, EPP, or RDAP; legacy system modernization; transactional platforms; cloud and container technologies; API security; Linux, networking, or infrastructure operations.

Benefits and work setup

Remote role for applicants based in Canada. The listed base salary range is CAD $160,000–$170,000, with compensation varying by location, experience, and qualifications. The source describes a broader benefits offering but does not specify individual benefits.