# Engineering Manager - Developer Experience

**Company:** [Fetch](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fetch)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** CI/CD, Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure, Observability, Infrastructure As Code, service catalogs, developer portals, ai-assisted development, dora metrics, space framework
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Leads the developer experience organization responsible for internal platforms, tooling, golden paths, and workflows that improve engineering productivity and operational excellence. The role requires engineering people-management experience, strong platform or infrastructure expertise, and a product-minded, data-informed approach.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow a team focused on developer experience, developer productivity, and internal engineering platforms.
- Define and execute a developer experience strategy that improves how engineers build, test, deploy, and operate software.
- Identify friction across local setup, CI/CD, testing, release management, observability, incident response, and production operations.
- Create and evolve golden paths that improve speed, quality, consistency, security, and reliability.
- Own and improve build pipelines, automated testing infrastructure, service scaffolding, shared tooling, documentation, and internal platforms.
- Drive AI-assisted development, automation, code review improvements, intelligent tooling, and self-service capabilities.
- Use quantitative and qualitative data to prioritize investments and measure developer productivity, satisfaction, cycle time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and operational burden.
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, security, SRE, product engineering, architecture, and data teams.
- Establish a culture of customer empathy, operational excellence, pragmatic execution, high-quality technical decisions, and continuous improvement.
- Represent developer experience priorities in engineering planning and cross-functional decisions.

## Requirements
- Experience managing and growing high-performing engineering teams, ideally in platform engineering, developer experience, developer productivity, infrastructure, SRE, build systems, tooling, or related domains.
- Strong technical background building or operating scalable software systems, internal platforms, CI/CD systems, developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, or service-oriented architectures.
- Product-minded approach to internal tools and the ability to prioritize high-impact problems.
- Experience improving build, test, and release pipelines, service templates, local development environments, observability, incident response, or operational tooling.
- Ability to balance long-term platform strategy with near-term execution and measurable impact.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Data-informed approach to engineering productivity, delivery metrics, reliability metrics, and qualitative feedback.
- Practical judgment around AI-assisted developer workflows, automation, and emerging tools.
- Leadership grounded in clarity, trust, accountability, coaching, and continuous improvement.

## Nice to Have
- Experience leading internal developer platforms, paved roads, or golden-path architectures.
- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, CI/CD systems, observability platforms, infrastructure as code, service catalogs, or developer portals.
- Experience introducing AI-powered tools or agentic workflows into engineering organizations.
- Familiarity with DORA and SPACE metrics.

## Work Arrangement
- Full-time role available remotely within the United States or from a US office.

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