Engineering Manager, Agent Orchestration

In this role, you will

• Build, lead, and develop a high performing team of engineers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for Decagon’s orchestration engine, balancing speed of iteration with correctness and safety.
• Drive architecture for systems that coordinate complex reasoning and action flows at scale.
• Set reliability, testing, and observability standards across the orchestration stack, and build an operating cadence that prevents repeated incidents.
• Create frameworks and guardrails that enable fast, safe iteration on agent behavior, evaluation, and rollout.
• Partner with Product, Research, and Infrastructure teams to define requirements, navigate tradeoffs, and ship multi-quarter initiatives that move core company metrics.

Your background will look something like this

• Have 2+ years of engineering management experience leading high performing teams in fast-moving environments.
• Have strong technical depth and an IC foundation that enables you to guide architecture, debug complex failures, and make sound trade-offs.
• Have experience building distributed systems, execution engines, real-time platforms, or other high scale systems where correctness and reliability matter.
• Have a track record of delivering multi-quarter projects through ambiguity, creating clarity for your team and stakeholders.
• Care deeply about engineering craft and operational excellence, including testing strategy, observability, and incident learning.
• Communicate clearly and collaborate well across Product, Research, and Infrastructure teams.

Even better if you have

• Experience with agent frameworks, runtimes, orchestration logic, or tool use systems.
• Experience with evaluation, experimentation, or model quality measurement systems.
• Experience building guardrails for safety-critical or highly reliable systems.

Compensation

$280,000 - $430,000 + equity