Tech Lead Manager, Developer Productivity
Leads and grows the Bengaluru engineering team responsible for AI-native developer productivity, CI/CD, build and test performance, development environments, and infrastructure automation. The role combines people leadership, architectural direction, hands-on debugging, and cross-functional execution.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a Bengaluru-based engineering team focused on AI-native developer productivity, infrastructure, and engineering acceleration.
- Mentor engineers, review designs, guide architecture, and set a high bar for engineering quality, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Own key initiatives that improve developer experience and velocity across the engineering organization.
- Build systems that improve developer turnaround time, including faster builds, lower queue latency, shorter test cycles, better flaky-test management, and clearer failure diagnosis.
- Evaluate and adopt development tools and workflows to improve productivity and code quality.
- Partner with engineering teams to integrate tools into day-to-day workflows and deliver measurable impact.
- Lead war rooms and incident management for critical developer infrastructure issues, driving communication, rapid resolution, root-cause analysis, and durable follow-up actions.
- Stay hands-on with technical details, debug critical issues, and make architectural tradeoffs.
Requirements
- Deep focus on developer productivity and reducing friction across the software development lifecycle.
- Proven track record building tools and infrastructure that improve engineering velocity, reliability, and developer experience.
- Deep experience and strong technical judgment with build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and/or developer tooling in large monorepo environments.
- Strong programming ability in Python or similar systems-oriented languages.
- Engineering leadership experience as an engineering manager, tech lead, or tech lead manager, including hiring and growing teams.
- Clear communication and effective influence across globally distributed engineering teams.
- High ownership, strong execution, and sound judgment in ambiguous environments.
Skills
Python, Build Systems, CI/CD, Developer Tooling, Monorepos, Infrastructure Automation, Incident Management, Developer Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Test Automation
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