Remote-First Engineering Manager for Global Teams

Sotheby's France; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Health cash plan and dental insurance

Workplace nursery benefit

Generous holiday allowance

Job summary

Sotheby’s is seeking an engineering leader to build and guide distributed teams across time zones. You’ll partner with product to shape roadmaps, drive architectural decisions, and deliver high-value outcomes.

You’ll own team health, performance, and long-term growth while maintaining clear standards for quality and reliability. You’ll engage with senior stakeholders, mentor engineers, and lead initiatives across observability, testing, and incident response.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering management experience with distributed or remote-first teams across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own the health, output and growth of an engineering team distributed across time zones, from hiring through to career development and performance.
• Partner with product management to shape your team’s roadmap, balancing feature delivery, technical investment and operational health.
• Set and maintain the quality bar for your team’s area of the platform, including engineering practices, observability, reliability and how work gets reviewed.
• Run the delivery cadence: planning, prioritisation, retrospectives, and the day-to-day work of keeping things moving and unblocked.
• Manage dependencies and communication across teams, reducing coordination overhead and making sure nothing falls between the cracks.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives, whether that’s standards, tooling, process improvement, or how we grow engineers across the organisation.
• Handle incidents and operational issues alongside your team, own the follow-up, and make sure the right things get fixed.
• Give your engineers regular, honest feedback and create real opportunities for them to grow

Skills

Distributed teams

Engineering leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Clear communication

Tools

Go

Scala

React/TypeScript

Next.js

GraphQL

gRPC

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Sotheby’s is seeking an engineering leader to build and guide distributed teams across time zones. You’ll partner with product to shape roadmaps, drive architectural decisions, and deliver high-value outcomes.

You’ll own team health, performance, and long-term growth while maintaining clear standards for quality and reliability. You’ll engage with senior stakeholders, mentor engineers, and lead initiatives across observability, testing, and incident response.