Software Engineering Manager (Developer Productivity)

You are the Software Engineering Manager for Zipline’s Developer Productivity team. Your team builds the tools and infrastructure that help engineers develop, test, and ship software across FlightSystems and cloud

You will own the team’s roadmap, technical direction, and execution. Your work will improve the speed and reliability of CI, expand our use of remote build execution, simplify developer workflows, and support the long-term evolution of Zipline’s software platform

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will grow and coach the team, stay close to technical decisions, and work directly with software, firmware, autonomy, and infrastructure teams to solve the problems slowing engineers down

Lead the team responsible for Zipline’s build systems, CI/CD infrastructure, remote execution, and developer tooling

Own the roadmap for improving CI speed, reliability, and developer experience across our monorepo

Support a fast-growing software engineering organization of about 200 people to improve velocity and developer experience

Expand our on-prem remote build execution platform

Work across teams to improve our Bazel build graph

Be a thought leader in simplifying complex CI pipelines

Lead large build system migrations to move more projects into the monorepo’s build system

Set priorities for the developer productivity team by talking with customers to identify pain points, and defining metrics to track productivity

Hire, coach, and develop engineers while building a team culture obsessed with building great developer experiences- Deep knowledge of modern build and CI systems, including remote execution, caching, artifact management, and distributed infrastructure

Experience building top-performing software teams

Experience setting technical direction and delivering complex, cross-team projects with measurable results

Obsession with engineering velocity, removing friction, and building great tools

High-bandwidth communications across many software engineering disciplines

Passion for building strong relationships with stakeholder teams

Metric-driven mindset

Solid software engineering fundamentals

Experience with Bazel, Buildkite, BuildBarn, AWS, Linux, Docker, or large monorepos

Experience with C++, Rust, Python, Go, or TypeScript

Experience supporting robotics, embedded systems, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or safety-critical software

Experience leading major build-system, CI-platform, or repository migrations