Senior Engineering Manager
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Full-time
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Compensation USD228k/year
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At Murmuration, we believe that America's promise is shaped and reshaped by the best ideas and ideals of its communities...About The PositionDo you see yourself as a mission-driven Senior Engineering Manager who believes that great products emerge from strong teams? Do you have a curiosity and passion for bringing related areas together and coaching people of different backgrounds and technical expertise into a cohesive, collaborative team?The Murmuration Engineering Team is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to grow and develop the multidisciplinary team (DevOps, App Security, SRE, and FinOps) that builds and maintains the shared systems that all of our teams depend on. Your guidance and influence on this team will raise the bar across the engineering organization.As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll join the Platform Team to support both production and prototype applications and the services they're built upon. You'll coach and grow a small, cross-discipline team that owns the outcomes for the org's build/deploy/run systems, with accountability for other teams' ability to ship fast, safely, and reliably. The team's disciplines span DevOps, App Security, SRE, and FinOps domains.Your leadership actively shapes the team's operating model, evolving it to serve the Engineering organization's current and future needs.Your ability to work across engineering teams, understanding their goals and shaping the org's engineering roadmap around them, is key to making the Platform Team successful.This role suits a deeply experienced Senior Engineering Manager who can evaluate where we are today, absorb shifts keep us on track.Drive & ModelShape technical strategy for the team: Build an engineering roadmap... and present well-reasoned documentation of tradeoffs and alternativesManage technical debt and process health: Maintain a steady cadence of debt paydown... handled proactively rather than as last-minute fire drillsDeliver production-ready platforms: Own the platforms and tooling that give other teams a stable, observable foundation of reliability, performance, and operational excellence...Strengthen application security: Introspect codebases to identify vulnerabilities early, and own data privacy and access control as first-class concerns...Enable FinOps visibility: Build and own the single panes of glass that give engineering leadership and the C-suite a clear, trusted view of cloud and infrastructure costs...Architect for the long term: Design and build systems and architectures that will serve Murmuration for years with scale, reliability, security, and maintainability as first-class concernsElevate the TeamCoach and empower emerging leaders: Coach leaders to lead at every level... and through mentoring ICs around themResolve ambiguity: Actively shape and bring structure and clarity (not perfection) to specsListen and elevate: Stay closely attuned to how other teams approach test strategy, code quality, and system design...Be like Ted Lasso: Believe, coach the whole team, build trust, and demonstrate kindness, empathy, optimism, curiosity, and vulnerabilityLead Beyond PlatformLead beyond the Platform team: Own objectives that span multiple teams and align with division and organizational goalsBe the voice: Lead with ownership and accountability... seek opportunities to add clarity, make high-quality recommendations, and be a decision-makerIdentify risk: Identify, document, and follow-up... on vulnerabilities and operational risk across the full platformLead incident response: Involve the right people... lead the response, conduct root cause analysis, and follow through until learnings are shared... and remediation is completeBuild with VisionBuild one internal engineering system, not four Platform teams: Treat DevOps, App Security, SRE, and FinOps as interdependent subsystems...Present a cohesive voice and narrative externally: Lead with expertise and a cohesive single voice about the Platform Team's mission and deliverablesBe curious about people, not just systems: Identify opportunities to foster curiosity and ease communicationUse AI to amplify: Surface risks and gaps that manual review would miss, and measure team progress together towards shared goalsRequirementsTechnical Depth and JudgementDeep, hands-on expertise across DevOps and SRE: Your direct prior experience informs your approach...Sound judgment under imperfect information: Make tradeoff calls to generate clarity in ambiguous situationsCommunicates effectively: Explain to non-technical leadership why an architecture decision is sound...Champions team decisions: Advocate for the team's technical decisions to peers, product, and leadershipScope, Initiative, and ExecutionLead execution at scale: Lead technical execution for initiatives spanning multiple teams or systems...Turn strategy into shipped deliverables: Translate objectives... into clear epics, stories, and tickets...Plan through ambiguity: Estimate large, cross-team projects with unknowns...Drive to completion: Involve decision makers, delegate clearly... until an outcome is deliveredMultiply team effectiveness: Use technical leadership... to multiply the impact of both the Platform Team and the Engineering organizationOrganizational ImpactInfluence beyond the team: Shape outcomes beyond your own team through role modeling, documentation, and advocacyMentor future leaders: Develop future technical leaders... through 1:1 guidance and small-group knowledge sharingRaise the engineering bar: Drive the standards and best practices that raise the bar across the organizationLead by example: Proactively share context and learnings...What You Bring To The TableFoundations10+ years of professional software manager engineering experience... delivering in production across a variety of languages, tools, and technology stacksA quality-driven mindset with experience writing, maintaining, and driving infrastructure and deployment safety checks...A track record of effective collaboration with product, data science, and R&D teams...DevOpsWorking knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and release engineering practicesProduction experience with AWS, including compute, storage, and networking servicesProficiency with Docker, Make, or similar build tools, as well as environment scriptingFluency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) across AWS, GCP, and Azure providers...App SecurityExperience driving secure coding practices, data privacy principles, and access control patterns...Familiarity with security practices such as vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and secure SDLCKnowledge of compliance and regulatory frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, NIST CSF)...SREDeep experience with cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and production-grade software at scaleDirect experience with observability tooling (logging, metrics, and tracing) using tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, or GrafanaWorking knowledge of incident management practices: On-call rotations, escalation, and postmortem processesFinOpsFamiliarity with cloud cost and billing platforms sufficient to build tooling that supports both short- and long-term budget decisionsNice to HavesFamiliarity with Voter File Data;Experience with or interest in political data; and/orA background ic tech, advocacy, or mission-driven organizationsBenefitsLocation and CompensationThis is a full-time, salaried position with a comprehensive benefits package, open to candidates anywhere in the United States.The starting salary for this position is $228,497.Our Culture of CareWe offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes:Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for you and qualifying family membersRetirement benefits with a 5% employer matchA flexible unlimited PTO planGenerous paid parental leavePre-tax commuter benefitsA company laptopA flexible remote work environmentA home office setup stipend for all new employeesMonthly reimbursement for remote work expensesA yearly professional development fundMental health and wellness benefits through Calm and Better HelpYearly in-person staff retreatsA welcoming culture that celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belongingAn Equal-Opportunity Employer with a Commitment to DiversityMurmuration is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and as an organization committed to diversity and the perspective of all voices...Note: Murmuration is two organizations working together to pursue our mission...