# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Zania](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zania)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AI/ML, LLMs, agentic architectures, Prompt Engineering, CI/CD, Observability, on-call, Code Review, llm orchestration, enterprise saas, Security, compliance automation, production systems
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Leads engineering end-to-end, combining hands-on architecture and AI/ML delivery with hiring and scaling an engineering organization from roughly 5 to 15–20 engineers. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, founding or technical leadership experience, and a proven ability to ship production agentic systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own all engineering output, including product quality, velocity, reliability, and security.
- Scale the engineering team from approximately 5 to 15–20 engineers in 12 months, with personal involvement in every hire.
- Establish and enforce a high-velocity shipping culture with weekly demos, continuous deployment, and minimal process overhead.
- Partner directly with the CEO on product direction, prioritization, and customer-facing technical conversations.
- Architect and evolve the platform, including LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, and compliance automation, for enterprise scale.
- Establish lightweight but effective engineering practices, including CI/CD, observability, on-call, and code review standards.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- **8+ years of software engineering experience**, including at least 3 years in a technical leadership or founding engineering role at a product-led company.
- Experience scaling an engineering team from small to 20+ engineers, including hiring, developing, and retaining senior technical talent.
- Deep, hands-on experience shipping AI/ML or agentic systems to production at enterprise scale.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to partner directly with the CEO and represent engineering in customer-facing technical conversations.
- Ability to make architecture decisions, review and write code, debug production issues, and explain technical tradeoffs.
- Experience making decisions under uncertainty, cutting scope, and maintaining rapid shipping cycles.

## Nice-to-haves
- Founded or co-founded a technical startup, or served as an early engineering leader.
- Experience scaling an engineering team through a Series A or Series B at a product-led company.
- Active experience building with LLMs, agents, tool use, and orchestration frameworks.
- Knowledge of prompt engineering, evaluation, context-window management, and production-grade AI systems.
- Experience with agentic architectures.
- Strong connections in the Bay Area engineering community.
- Background in security, infrastructure, or enterprise SaaS.
- Experience in domains where correctness matters, such as fintech, security, health, or compliance.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Significant equity and competitive cash compensation.
- Reports directly to the CEO.

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