Speak
Engineering Manager, Infrastructure / Platform
$220K–$300K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Apr 10, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of individual-contributor software engineering experience and 4+ years of direct team management experience.
About the job
Leads Speak’s Platform & Infrastructure team, building reliable infrastructure, self-service tooling, and guardrails while improving engineering velocity and enabling agentic software development.
What you'll do
- Lead and manage engineers, setting output expectations and maintaining a high-performing team culture.
- Contribute technically through coaching, smaller projects, bug fixes, and improving agent environments with coding agents.
- Drive the team’s agentic engineering transformation and improve shared infrastructure, tooling, and systems across engineering.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of individual-contributor software engineering experience on fast-paced, high-performance teams.
- 4+ years of direct team management experience.
- Strong backend, systems, platform/infrastructure, or performance background.
- Deep technical skills and experience building with coding agents.
Nice to have
- Background in AI-native products and systems.
- Track record of driving organization-wide developer productivity or tooling initiatives.
Pay
$220K – $300K USD base salary
AI focus
Lead the shift toward agentic engineering by improving agent environments, tooling, systems, and feedback loops so agents can perform increasingly autonomous, high-quality work.
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