Senior Manager, Engineering

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a seasoned engineering lead in Austin, TX to design, build, and maintain internal integrations.

You will lead a talented team, scale backend APIs, and partner with product and operations to accelerate company growth and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team of senior engineers.
• Experience with cross-functional teams and communicating technical direction.
• Leadership in backend APIs and integrations.
• Ability to plan, organize, and deliver with predictability.
• Experience building developer-friendly APIs that scale.
• Track record of hiring, onboarding and coaching.
• Inspires the team to reach higher and articulate why as well as how.
• Experience implementing tools, processes, instrumentation and resolving blockers.
• Ability to manage teams under tight deadlines and short release cycles.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for designing and maintaining internal integrations.
• Oversee scalable, reliable integration infrastructure to support growth.
• Accelerate sales velocity, customer support and platform experiences.
• Grow and mentor a high-performing engineering team.
• Set clear expectations, provide feedback, and communicate effectively.

Skills

Team leadership

Cross-functional alignment

Backend APIs

API design

Mentoring

Strategic planning

Communication

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

About Us

At the company, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. the company protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by the company all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. the company was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At the company, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: Austin, TX

About the Department

the company’s Enterprise Integrations Engineering Team designs, builds, and maintains integrations across a wide range of SaaS applications used throughout the organization. Our mission is to create scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems that ensure data flows securely and efficiently between platforms. With several high-impact projects always in motion, the ability to manage shifting priorities, communicate clearly, and collaborate effectively is essential.

Our team is highly collaborative, values continuous learning, and supports each other through shared ownership and open communication. We work closely with both technical and business teams, conduct regular retrospectives, and look for ways to improve how we build and deliver integrations.

About the Role

You will build out and lead a team of talented engineers responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the company’s internal integrations solutions. You will oversee the development of scalable, highly reliable integration infrastructure designed to facilitate organizational change as we scale. Your work will directly accelerate our sales velocity, customer support, and platform experience for our customers. You will play a key role in the next era of the company’s growth ensuring our future initiatives are resilient, scalable, and future-proof.

Beyond the technical execution, you will focus on growing and mentoring a high-performing engineering team. You will set clear expectations, provide thoughtful leadership and feedback, and create an environment where engineers can thrive. Your ability to communicate effectively, manage priorities, and navigate a fast-paced environment will be critical in driving success.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Experience leading a team of senior engineers.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, driving alignment, and clearly creating and communicating technical direction for large cross-company efforts.
• Comfortable leading and hiring a team that builds the backend APIs and Integrations.
• Excel at planning, creating teams and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
• Comfortable building developer-loved APIs that scale.
• Demonstrate a track record of leading a team including hiring, on-boarding, and professional development.
• You inspire your team to reach higher.
• You’re as good as explaining “why” as you are “how”.
• Experience implementing tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages.
• Comfortable managing teams/projections with tight deadlines and short release cycles.

Bonus Points

• Proficiency in Go
• Experience building RESTful APIs with proper service security practices
• Experience working with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, or Kibana
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with GitLab or other CI/CD tools

What Makes the company Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by the company’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service the company has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the the company Offices or the company Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

the company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all