Engineering Manager
Lead the API Platform engineering team, designing and scaling mission-critical APIs that deliver frontier AI capabilities to developers and agents. Drive technical strategy, hiring, and cross-team collaboration.
About the job
Key Responsibilities
- Provide both technical and team leadership across multiple layers of our rapidly growing API business.
- Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs that provide our customers the building blocks for frontier intelligence.
- Continually reimagine the customer needs of tomorrow (and the architectures to serve those needs), while faithfully serving the customer workloads of today.
- Drive product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance for the broader team.
- Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team; develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates.
- Collaborate across teams to incorporate novel frontier capabilities into the API Platform and improve existing capabilities for API customer needs.
- Track and ensure progress toward top-line business goals, in close coordination with engineering and business executives.
Qualifications
- Entrepreneurial attitude; able and eager to run more than just engineering.
- Proficiency in Python (bonus points for Go and/or Rust).
- Strong understanding of high-traffic API design: schema evolution & versioning, idempotency, authentication patterns, rate limiting, and performance tuning.
- Experience with modern AI APIs (including latency tuning, streaming, model orchestration, emerging technical standards) is a strong plus.
- Strong customer empathy and product sense, ensuring the APIs you build are ergonomic, well-documented, and easy to adopt for developers and agents alike.
- Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects; ability to guide highly-opinionated teams in making sound tradeoffs and prioritization decisions is critical.
- Experience managing engineering teams, including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent.
- 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years as an engineering manager.
Skills
Python, Go, Rust, API Design, Schema Evolution, Idempotency, Authentication, Rate Limiting, Performance Tuning, Latency Tuning, Streaming, Model Orchestration
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