Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Own Feature Delivery for a Product Area: Lead a team of engineers responsible for shipping new functionality and iterating existing product surfaces. Deliver predictable, high-velocity outcomes that improve customer experience and business value.
• Plan and Execute Roadmaps: Translate product strategy into clear technical plans, milestones, and success metrics. Identify tradeoffs early and manage scope, risk, and timelines.
• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Drive pragmatic system design for product-layer services and workflows, ensuring scalability, performance, and consistency with Runpod’s platform.
• Build and Grow a Strong Team: Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; set expectations, provide feedback, and create a culture of ownership, speed, and craft in a remote-first environment.
• Quality & Reliability for Product Surfaces: Improve automated testing, release safety, observability for customer-facing systems, and regression prevention. Ensure on-call health for your team’s services.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner tightly with Product, Program management, Support, GTM, and Infrastructure counterparts. Coordinate dependencies cleanly while maintaining clear ownership.
• Operational Excellence: Establish team rituals and delivery systems (sprints/kanban, retros, design reviews). Use data to improve cycle time, throughput, and feature adoption.
• Customer-Driven Execution: Stay close to user needs by incorporating feedback, analytics, and support signals into prioritization and iteration.

Requirements

• 2+ years managing a team of high performance software engineers, including ownership of roadmap delivery, hiring/firing, performance, and team culture.
• 6+ years as a software engineer building and shipping products used by millions of users, with clear evidence of personal impact.
• Strong experience with Linux systems internals and/or cloud systems engineering - ideally building platform capabilities (orchestration, control planes, distributed services, networking or storage layers).
• Comfortable reviewing and contributing to code in modern stacks; Go, Python, and/or TypeScript experience preferred.
• Solid understanding of microservices, APIs, eventing, data stores, and service-to-service communication patterns.
• Experience running execution processes and using metrics like cycle time, throughput, adoption, and escape defects to improve team flow.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly, align stakeholders asynchronously, and sustain momentum across time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI/ML + developer platforms, workflow-heavy products, or infrastructure-adjacent product layers (e.g., job orchestration UX, deployment flows, usage/billing, observability surfaces).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes-based platforms, container runtimes, scheduling concepts, or GPU/accelerator workflows.
• Track record of scaling teams in high-growth environments while keeping quality high.
• Open-source contributions in cloud-native, systems, or ML-adjacent projects.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base pay ranging from $110,000 - $220,000 (may encompass multiple career levels; narrowed during interview based on experience, qualifications, and location).
• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company—everyone receives stock options.
• Generous medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible PTO.
• $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend.
• Remote-first with inclusive, collaborative teams using Slack.