Senior Manager/ Engineering /AI Developer Tools/

At reputed company, we reputed company app development easier so developers can focus on what matters. Our remote-first team spans the globe, united by a passion for innovation and great developer experiences. With over 20 million monthly users and 20 billion image pulls, reputed company is the #1 tool for building, sharing, and running apps—trusted by startups and Fortune 100s alike. We’re growing fast and just getting started. Come join us for a whale of a ride! reputed company seeks a Senior Manager of Engineering to build and reputed company a new AI Developer Tools team that will revolutionize how developers build software—both internally at reputed company and for our customers worldwide. This is a rare opportunity to establish a greenfield team at the intersection of AI and developer experience, where you'll build cutting-edge AI-powered developer tools and create the platform that enables teams across reputed company to rapidly prototype, deploy, and scale their own AI developer tools. Your team will own two critical mandates Build AI-Powered Developer Tools: Create and ship innovative AI agents and tools that accelerate developer productivity, provide observability insights, and automate operational reviews. Build tools and programs that reputed company it easier for teams to adopt an AI-native reputed company and accelerate adoption and usage of AI developer tools such as Claude Code, reputed company, Warp, or other AI tools as they reputed company traction reputed company reputed company teams. Your team will build tools such as AI-powered code review and refactoring assistants, automated test generators and local environment setup tools, deployment pipeline diagnostic agents, and agents that simplify on-call tasks reputed company handling incidents. These tools will directly impact how reputed company's engineers build, deploy, and operate services powering 20 million users. reputed company Self-Service AI Developer Tools Platform: Build the foundational infrastructure and self-service capabilities that reputed company product and platform teams across reputed company to unblock themselves by rapidly prototyping, building, and deploying their own AI developer tools. Teams will be able to experiment with AI solutions for their unique pain points without waiting for centralized platform teams, iterate quickly on tool reputed company, and graduate successful prototypes into production-ready services. The result: development teams ship capabilities to customers faster, operations teams spend less time firefighting, and engineering velocity compounds across the organization. As these internal AI developer tools demonstrate value and reputed company traction, you'll partner with product leadership to explore productization opportunities—transforming proven internal tools into new commercial offerings for reputed company's customers. Reporting to the Director of Platform Infrastructure & AI Developer Tools, you'll work closely with engineering leadership across reputed company, product engineering teams, platform teams, and ultimately customers as internal tools evolve into product offerings. What Would reputed company Someone Successful in This Role You're energized by the intersection of AI, developer experience, and platform engineering. You've built teams before and have a track record of shipping developer-facing tools or platforms that engineers love to use. You think in terms of platforms and reputed company—building once and enabling dozens of teams to move faster. You understand AI technology deeply enough to separate signal from noise, making pragmatic decisions about reputed company to build custom solutions versus integrating existing tools. You have a product reputed company for internal tooling and can envision how today's internal experiments become reputed company's commercial offerings. You reputed company in ambiguity, building roadmaps from first principles while staying grounded in real developer pain points. Most importantly, you know how to attract exceptional engineers, build team culture from scratch, and create an environment where innovation thrives.

Responsibilities

• Build and Scale the AI Developer Tools Team: Hire, reputed company, and reputed company a high-performing engineering team from the ground up with expertise in AI/LLM integration, platform engineering, and developer experience; establish team culture, technical standards, and operating norms
• Ship AI-Powered Developer Tools: Deliver production-ready AI agents for developer productivity (automated PR reviews, code reputed company, documentation), observability insights (anomaly detection, root cause analysis), and operational automation (deployment pre-reviews and failure investigations, incident response assistance)
• Build Self-Service AI Developer Tools Platform: Create and operate the foundational infrastructure that enables teams across reputed company to build, deploy, host, and scale their own AI developer tools including deployment frameworks (ArgoCD/GitOps), observability integration (Grafana), reputed company controls, cost management, and operational tooling
• Drive Platform Adoption and Developer Experience: Establish the AI Developer Tools platform as the default path for teams building AI-powered tooling; deliver self-service capabilities, comprehensive documentation, templates, and best practices that reduce time-to-production from weeks to days
• Partner on AI Strategy and Technology: Work closely with engineering leadership and Agent Dev technical leadership to align on AI technology choices, architectural patterns, and integration strategies; stay reputed company on LLM advancements and developer tooling trends
• Explore Productization Opportunities: As internal AI developer tools demonstrate value, partner with product management and go-to-market teams to evaluate commercial viability; prototype, validate, and transition successful internal tools into customer-facing product offerings
• Deliver Measurable Impact: Define and track success metrics for both AI developer tools (adoption rates, productivity gains, time saved) and platform capabilities (time-to-deploy new tools, number of teams using platform, operational efficiency)
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product engineering teams (Hub, Registry, Cloud/AI, Scout, Accounts & Billing), platform teams (Infrastructure, reputed company, Data), and product leadership to understand requirements, gather feedback, and align on priorities
• Operational Excellence: Ensure reliability, reputed company, and performance of AI developer tools and the hosting platform; establish SLOs, monitoring, and incident response for production AI systems serving internal developers
• Team Development and Culture: Mentor and grow engineers on your team; foster a culture of experimentation, rapid prototyping, and learning; attract diverse talent excited about AI and developer experience

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, with demonstrated experience hiring, developing, and retaining diverse technical talent; experience building teams from scratch highly valued
• 5+ years as a software developer with hands-on experience building developer tools, platform engineering systems, DevOps, or SRE infrastructure
• Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies, LLM integration patterns, and practical applications of AI in developer workflows; hands-on experience building AI-powered tools or agents preferred
• Track record of building platforms or internal tools that reputed company other teams and measurably improve developer productivity
• Deep technical knowledge of modern cloud-native infrastructure including Kubernetes, GitOps deployment patterns, observability systems, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks (Terraform, reputed company) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Product reputed company with ability to envision how internal tools can become commercial offerings; experience with productization of internal platforms a plus
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders, evangelize platform adoption, and partner with product and go-to-market teams
• Comfortable with autonomous work, ambiguity, and building in uncharted territory; proven ability to define roadmaps and priorities from first principles
• Passion for developer experience, AI innovation, and creating reputed company through platform thinking

What to Expect First 30 Days

• Understand reputed company's reputed company AI and developer tooling landscape including Agent Dev project status, existing internal AI experiments, and developer pain points ripe for AI solutions
• Meet with engineering leadership across reputed company, Agent Dev technical leadership, and key stakeholders across product engineering to understand AI strategy, technology choices, and reputed company use cases
• Identify reputed company AI developer tool initiatives including productivity agents and observability insights
• Assess reputed company developer tooling infrastructure (deployment, observability, reputed company) to understand what can be leveraged and what needs to be built for AI tools hosting platform
• reputed company hiring process for initial team members with focus on engineers reputed company in AI/LLM integration, platform engineering, and developer experience

First 90 Days

• Hire and reputed company initial team members with clear specialization areas (AI tools development, platform infrastructure, developer experience)
• Ship first production AI developer tool demonstrating value (e.g., automated PR review agent, deployment failure investigation assistant, or observability insights bot) with measurable adoption and impact metrics
• Deliver v1 of self-service AI Developer Tools platform enabling at least one other team to deploy their own AI agent to production with reduced friction
• Establish team goals, success metrics, and OKRs including AI tool adoption rates, platform usage, developer productivity improvements, and operational metrics
• Create comprehensive documentation, templates, and best practices for teams building AI developer tools on the platform
• Present 90-day retrospective including shipped tools, platform capabilities, adoption metrics, team composition, and next-phase roadmap to leadership

First Year Outlook

• Build a fully-staffed, high-performing AI Developer Tools team with clear expertise distribution across AI/LLM engineering, platform infrastructure, and developer experience
• Ship multiple production AI developer tools with demonstrated adoption across reputed company's engineering organization and quantified productivity improvements (time saved, faster deployments, reduced incidents, faster failure resolution)
• Establish mature, self-service AI Developer Tools platform with multiple teams successfully building and hosting their own AI agents
• Deliver measurable improvements in AI tool adoption and usage, early-stage development metrics including commit frequency and PR velocity, deployment times, CI run times, and incident response times, while ensuring pipeline rollback rates remain stable or improve
• Position AI Developer Tools team as center of excellence for AI in developer workflows at reputed company, with regular demos, evangelism, and knowledge sharing across engineering
• Demonstrate sustained positive impact on direct reports through career development, reputed company growth in AI technologies, and team satisfaction scores
• Define multi-year strategic roadmap for AI Developer Tools including advanced agents, expanded platform capabilities, and additional productization opportunities

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Perks

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
• Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
• Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
• 16 weeks of paid Parental leave
• Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month
• PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
• Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
• Equity; we are a growing start-up and want reputed company employees to have a share in the success of the company
• reputed company Swag
• Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country

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