Sunset
Engineering Manager
New York · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
- Experience
- At least two years directly managing engineers who build production software.
About the job
Lead and grow an engineering team building enterprise-data products and systems, while staying technically involved in design, reviews, debugging, incidents, and selective prototyping.
What you'll do
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers into independent owners; define team ownership and technical direction.
- Use customer, product, data, and system evidence to set a roadmap and establish lightweight practices for quality, evaluation, releases, and incidents.
- Guide technical decisions and production response, and use AI engineering tools while ensuring quality, security, and verification.
What they ask for
- At least two years managing engineers who build production software.
- Experience hiring, giving direct feedback, handling performance issues, and developing senior engineers.
- Experience building or leading technically demanding products involving complex workflows, data systems, AI/ML, infrastructure, or sensitive information.
- Ability to review code and designs, debug with the team, and use AI engineering tools fluently with a practical approach to verification.
Nice to have
- Startup experience and comfort with broad ownership and changing context.
- Experience with software, data, ML, evaluation, or infrastructure teams; enterprise data connections; privacy-sensitive products; or engineering quality systems.
AI focus
Build products and systems involving AI/ML, use AI engineering tools directly, and establish team practices for AI-assisted speed, review, evaluation, and verification.
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