Sr. Engineering Manager, Developer Tools

Quantcast is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a newly forming Developer Tools team. You will be responsible for building a team to drive excellence in software development, build, test, and CD/CI tooling at Quantcast. This extends from off-the-shelf build/development tools such as github, jenkins, sourcegraph, & c, to custom development to drive developer productivity.As the team’s manager, you’ll own the roadmap to:

• Modernize, simplify, and standardize our build, test, and deployment toolchain
• Make the right way the easy way for security, compliance, and code quality
• Find and eliminate bottlenecks in our software development processes so we can be as productive as possible

Responsibilities:

• Ability to work on several large projects with multiple dependencies across teams
• Mentor and develop the members of your team from both a technical and soft skill perspective
• Strengthen engineering process, principles, and culture within your team and across the organization by championing a culture of learning and continuous improvement
• Own the long term technical vision and roadmap
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to build engineering teams
• Make the right trade-off choices when dealing with functional complexity, conflicting priorities, and conflicting schedules
• Represent the team and remove hurdles so that each one of the team members operates at the highest level of efficiency and productivity

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience, and demonstrated experience mentoring and developing technically strong teams
• Knowledge of secure coding practices, compliance, open-source technologies and frameworks
• Experience with effectively creating alignments between teams and operating well in ambiguity
• Experience driving organizational change (e.g. migrations between large systems, tool adoption, cost control, security)
• Ideal technical skills (definitely need some, don’t necessarily need all - Experience running a developer tools team, Expertise in build and deployment tools, Expertise with developer productivity tools
• Bachelor’s or higher degree (We recognize that knowledge and skills equivalent to those earned in a degree program can also be achieved via nontraditional paths, and welcomes applicants with nontraditional training.)