Platform Engineering Manager: AI-Driven Software

CoStar Group; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(K) matching

Tuition reimbursement

Stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Job summary

CoStar Group, based in Arlington, VA, seeks a Technical Manager, Software Engineering to lead the Platform Development team and expand the data platform powering Homes.com, CoStar Suite, LoopNet, and Apartments.com. The role emphasizes AI-driven delivery, observability, and robust data quality across enterprise systems.

You will guide a 5–7 person Agile team, drive architecture improvements, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design teams to deliver large initiatives within timelines

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person university or college.
• 7+ years of relevant development experience.
• 3+ years’ experience in modern web and database technologies.
• 3+ years’ experience building large distributed, API‑driven systems.
• 3+ years of experience leading Agile Team(s).
• Demonstrated expert knowledge of Object‑Oriented Programming and design patterns.
• Solid experience with C#, .NET Core, and SQL Server.
• Experience leading technical teams, solving complex requirements with timely solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to communicate with different audiences.
• Excellent team-building, negotiation and consensus-building abilities.
• Familiarity with modern AI platforms, LLMs, agent orchestration, or AI‑assisted development tools.
• Understanding of observability, monitoring, telemetry analysis, and automated incident detection platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead an Agile software development team (approximately 5-7 people); Lead daily ceremonies; Deliver done‑done features to customers at high velocity.
• Act as a player‑coach, mentoring & coaching highly productive team members.
• Promote a can‑do attitude, engineering mindset and collaboration as fundamental team values.
• Influence web application architecture and CI/CD pipeline improvements.
• Drive continuous improvement by focusing on engineering excellence.
• Champion the adoption of AI‑assisted software development practices to improve developer productivity, code quality, platform reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Leverage AI‑powered monitoring, anomaly detection, replayability, and observability capabilities to improve system resiliency, incident response, root cause analysis, and customer experience.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to identify opportunities for intelligent processes that reduce manual effort, accelerate research workflows, and improve operational effectiveness across CoStar platforms.
• Lead teams in designing, implementing, and governing AI‑powered solutions including skills, agents, tools, and workflow automations that enhance both internal productivity and customer‑facing products.
• Promote responsible AI adoption by ensuring solutions adhere to security, privacy, governance, and quality standards.
• Drive initiatives that utilize machine learning and AI tooling to improve data quality, enrichment, validation, entity resolution, and data governance across enterprise data platforms.
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements, develop project plan and work schedules for use by the development team.
• Successfully implement software development projects to specification and within scheduled timelines and budget parameters.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and other Agile teams to deliver large initiatives; Develop roadmap.
• Work with recruiters to identify, hire, and onboard top industry talent.
• Develop and maintain an in-depth working knowledge of the Real Estate Industry and CoStar’s business model / technology.
• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStar’s technology platform and development practices.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, models, frameworks, and agent‑based architectures to identify strategic opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage.
• Develop engineering roadmaps that incorporate AI capabilities into platform services, business processes, observability systems, and data quality initiatives.
• Foster a culture of experimentation where teams measure and validate the effectiveness of AI‑driven solutions through measurable business outcomes.
• Adopt an owner‑operator mindset and demonstrate full ownership of the product and technical platforms.
• Act as "Voice of the Customer" when participating in product readiness reviews.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

CoStar Group, based in Arlington, VA, seeks a Technical Manager, Software Engineering to lead the Platform Development team and expand the data platform powering Homes.com, CoStar Suite, LoopNet, and Apartments.com. The role emphasizes AI-driven delivery, observability, and robust data quality across enterprise systems.

You will guide a 5–7 person Agile team, drive architecture improvements, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design teams to deliver large initiatives within timelines