Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sprout Social is a social media management company seeking an Engineering Manager to lead its Tooling team. The role oversees developer experience and engineering productivity initiatives, including continuous delivery, CI/CD modernization, deployment automation, observability, AI-assisted workflows, and internal developer platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of SRE’s focused on Developer Experience and Engineering Productivity
- Partner with Engineering leadership to define the long-term vision for developer tooling across Sprout
- Drive the evolution of our Continuous Delivery platform, deployment automation, and release workflows
- Lead modernization efforts across our CI/CD ecosystem
- Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to build secure-by-default engineering workflows
- Guide technical direction for internal platforms supporting software development, deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence
- Foster engineering best practices around automation, reliability, testing, and operational maturity
- Help teams improve software delivery performance using DORA metrics and engineering health indicators
- Enable adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows and autonomous development tooling
- Work closely with Product Engineering teams to understand pain points and prioritize improvements that meaningfully increase developer velocity
- Support strategic infrastructure initiatives including deployment platforms, release management, engineering observability, source control automation, and internal developer portals
- Build an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement
Skills
- 3-5+ years managing software engineering teams
- 7+ years building and operating production software systems
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple engineering organizations
- Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems and modern software delivery pipelines
- Experience with cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes and AWS
- Experience improving engineering productivity through automation
- Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD platforms
- Experience leading Developer Experience or Platform Engineering teams
- Experience with deployment orchestration and release automation
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and platform automation
- Experience implementing software delivery metrics such as DORA
- Experience evaluating or implementing AI assisted software development workflows
- Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- Experience supporting internal engineering platforms used across large engineering organizations
Benefits
- Premium BCBSIL medical, dental (high/low plans), and vision (Eyemed) insurance for you and your eligible dependents.
- Full, free access to Modern Health for you and your dependents, including coaching, therapy sessions, and digital wellness resources.
- 401(k) plan with a 50% company match on your first 6% of contributions (a 3% total match).
- 100% employer-paid Life and Disability insurance.
- A flexible PTO policy, supplemented with additional company-wide Rest & Recharge days throughout the year.
- Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents.
- A $1,000 USD annual Lifestyle Spending Account to spend on your physical, mental, and financial well-being.
- A one-time $550 USD stipend to set up your home office, plus a monthly $50 USD stipend for internet.
- 16 hours of paid volunteer time annually, plus a $100 annual match for your charitable donations.
- Access to pre-tax commuter benefits, subsidized child/eldercare (Care.com), discounted pet insurance (Figo), and no-cost personalized financial wellness support through Your Money Line.
- Flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them; Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States.
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