Altana AI
Engineering Manager
$240K–$285K
Brooklyn, NY · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
About the job
Build and lead an engineering team that delivers customer-focused, AI-native products and reliably operates the systems behind them.
What you'll do
- Hire, coach, and manage engineers’ performance and growth; contribute code and set quality standards.
- Work with customers, product, and design to identify problems, plan and deliver incremental releases, and measure results.
- Own team operations, including incidents, on-call, system cost, security, and improving delivery through engineering metrics.
What they ask for
- Professional experience writing back-end or data-driven software in demanding environments, including work on large, complex problems.
- Strong hands-on engineering skills and experience deploying production code to cloud environments.
- Experience leading a team as an engineering manager or tech lead with people responsibilities such as coaching, feedback, and hiring.
- Experience with customer-focused product delivery, team planning and commitments, and operational ownership including incidents, on-call, and system cost.
Nice to have
- Experience building production systems with LLMs, agents, evals, or retrieval; or using DORA or SPACE metrics.
- Background in trade, supply chain, compliance, or working with government customers.
Pay
$240,000 - $285,000 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, DORA, SPACE
AI focus
Build AI-native products using LLMs, agents, evals, and retrieval as standard building blocks; establish checks for AI-assisted code before release.
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