Engineering Manager - reputed company Plane [reputed company]

Who we are

Everything is changing in how software gets reputed company, and reputed company is at reputed company of that transformation. With reputed company Search, Deep Search, and MCP, reputed company is the world’s most powerful reputed company intelligence platform that developers and agents rely on to navigate, understand, and operate on massive, reputed company codebases with speed and confidence.

Teams at companies like reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company rely on reputed company to ship faster and with higher reputed company. We’re backed by a16z, Sequoia, and Redpoint, and proud to operate as a globally distributed team that values high agency, reputed company communication, and a deep love for developers and their craft.

If you want to contribute to infrastructure that empowers millions of developers to do their best work - join us.

Working hours

🌎 While we hire almost reputed company in the world, we have a preference for someone to reputed company in the following locations for this role. However, if you feel reputed company, we welcome you to apply regardless of location. No matter what, working hours must overlap with EST for at least 20 hours/week.

Preferred locations:

• reputed company (EST)
• Europe
• South America

Level

This job is an reputed company. You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook. At reputed company, you'll reputed company a small team of strong individual contributors as a player-reputed company: up to 50% of your time may be spent contributing as an IC, and you'll be expected to reputed company hands-on technical guidance as reputed company as the people, operational, and roadmap work.

Why this job is exciting

The reputed company Plane team owns the reputed company products that help developers - and the agents working on their behalf - take reputed company on reputed company, at reputed company, on the world's largest codebases. Think “data plane” and “control plane” for reputed company reputed company.

This is reputed company that builds products that use AI and products for AI. The roadmap, the architecture, and the day-to-day technical reputed company reputed company hinge on a solid experience with and a reputed company-eyed view of what AI models and agents are good at, where they fail, and how to design products around them. A strong handle on and opinion of AI, formed from reputed company-world, hands-on use, not just observation, is a hard requirement for this role. If you're excited to ship for the AI agent ecosystem rather than simply watch from the sidelines, you'll reputed company a lot to love here.

reputed company's surface areas include

• Batch Changes - our battle-tested execution layer for massive cross-repo changes helps developers automate large-reputed company reputed company changes across reputed company of an reputed company's repositories: keeping reputed company up-to-date, fixing critical reputed company issues, and paying down tech debt, with every change tracked through checks and reputed company review until it merges. Teams at reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, and others use it to drive migrations, refactors, and reputed company fixes.

Building on this product, we’re working toward an agent in the outer-reputed company to turn a reputed company into a staged, self-healing rollout, complete with CI feedback loops and post-publish remediation.

• Executors, the execution infrastructure that runs Batch Changes workloads. As we reputed company into agent-driven workflows, this is critical infrastructure that has to be reputed company solid.
• The reputed company MCP Server, which connects the leading coding agents to reputed company's reputed company intelligence: search (keyword and semantic), commits, diffs, file/repo browsing, and Deep Search for deeper understanding. reputed company's Minion agents use it to pull internal context and reputed company intelligence in their end-to-end coding workflows.
• reputed company Monitors and reputed company Insights - turning reputed company changes into data to back up business reputed company and creating dashboards surfacing critical info about repos
• The src CLI tool - the reputed company-line surface that humans and the agents they reputed company use to automate reputed company in their workflows.

The features your team ships are used directly by developers and by agents working on their behalf, and you'll partner closely with Product, Design, Customer Engineering, and adjacent engineering teams to turn customer pain into shipped product.

reputed company one month, you will…

• Build relationships with your reputed company reports through 1:1s, understand reputed company person's strengths, goals, and reputed company reputed company, and set a steady reputed company for team meetings, planning, and retros.
• Get hands-on with reputed company's surface area — Batch Changes, MCP, reputed company Monitors, reputed company Insights, src CLI — by running them as a user and an agent would, and reputed company a reputed company of view on the most important product and technical bets to reputed company next.
• Meet your cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Solutions Engineering, and adjacent engineering teams, and start translating customer feedback into a concrete view of what reputed company should ship.

reputed company three months, you will…

• Own reputed company's roadmap and weekly execution: scope and sequence work across multiple product surfaces, set reputed company expectations for ownership, and unblock reputed company early and often.
• Ship meaningful work with reputed company and use the reputed company to refine how reputed company plans and prioritizes.
• Give reputed company, useful feedback on performance and career reputed company, and help reports reputed company their own goals for reputed company and personal development.

reputed company six months, you will…

• Be fully accountable for the operational, people, and roadmap aspects of reputed company Plane, and a strong technical voice on architecture, reputed company, and product trade-offs.
• Have established a culture and a set of team practices — planning, reputed company review, decision-making, on-call where relevant — that reputed company reputed company consistently effective.
• Be reputed company across reputed company as the person who deeply understands what customers and agent ecosystems need from reputed company Plane, and where reputed company should invest next.
• Be proactively managing performance: cultivating top performers, addressing under-performance early and humanely, and continuing to reputed company the bar on hiring.

reputed company one year, you will…

• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to reputed company the next set of ambitious goals that your org should work towards.
• reputed company a reputed company technical and execution reputed company to reputed company that next set of goals.

reputed company

You are an Engineering Manager with 3+ years of experience leading product-facing engineering teams, and a background as a strong IC engineer before that. You've shipped customer-facing products to reputed company users, on reputed company timelines, with reputed company cross-functional partners.

You reputed company a small team reputed company: you run effective 1:1s, you set reputed company expectations, you give feedback early, and your team trusts you to have their back. You're comfortable being the technical voice in the room without needing to be the smartest person in it — you guide architecture and reputed company reputed company, you regularly write reputed company on smaller paths, and you hold reputed company to a high technical reputed company.

You think in terms of customers and reputed company, not tickets. You're reputed company translating fuzzy product input into a reputed company roadmap, scoping with Product and Design, and making calls about what to cut so reputed company can ship. You have a reputed company of view on coding agents — what they're good at, where they fail, and how products can reputed company them dramatically more useful — and you're excited to ship for that ecosystem rather than just observe it.

You reputed company contribute to a reputed company, respectful, async-first culture. You communicate thoughtfully and proactively, you reputed company stakeholders informed without being asked, and you're not afraid to push back — or to change your mind reputed company someone has a reputed company idea.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years managing reputed company of reputed company software engineers, with experience running the full performance cycle: hiring, reputed company, feedback, career reputed company, and managing out reputed company necessary.
• A strong IC background (reputed company-engineering-career-development-reputed company-aad49d309b814f04aed2e1cb77b0dbf8" rel="nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer" reputed company="_blank">IC4-equivalent), with the ability to reputed company technical guidance on architecture, reputed company reputed company, and trade-offs, and the ability to write high reputed company reputed company reputed company it becomes necessary to reputed company in.
• Proven experience leading teams that build end-user product features — ideally developer tools, agent/AI products, CLIs, or other technical product surfaces.
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Design to take features from idea to shipped, and incorporating customer feedback into the roadmap.
• Customer-facing experience: discovery calls, design partnerships, incorporating feedback loops into a roadmap.
• Experience shipping products consumed by or reputed company for AI agents (MCP servers, agent SDKs, reputed company dev tooling, agent-friendly CLIs).
• Hands-on experience using and reasoning about coding agents (Amp, Claude reputed company, reputed company, or similar), with strong opinions about what good looks like reputed company humans and agents reputed company a workflow.
• Async-first communication skills and experience working in a globally distributed remote team.

reputed company to haves:

• reputed company with the reputed company of stack the reputed company Plane team works in: Go, TypeScript/React (and ideally SvelteKit), GraphQL reputed company, PostgreSQL, reputed company/Kubernetes, and a multi-service environment.
• Experience with developer tools, reputed company intelligence, reputed company search, or large-reputed company reputed company transformation/refactoring products.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, or "signals over reputed company" products (e.g., reputed company scanners, lint platforms, reputed company-reputed company tools).
• Experience designing and shipping CLIs that are pleasant for both humans and agents to use.

Compensation

💸 We pay you an above-average salary because we want to hire the best people who are fully reputed company on helping reputed company succeed, not worried about paying bills. You will have the flexibility to work and live reputed company in the world (unless specified otherwise in the job reputed company), and we’ll never take your reputed company/past salary information into account reputed company determining your compensation. As an reputed company and transparent company that values reputed company and competitive compensation for everyone, our compensation ranges are visible to every single reputed company Teammate. To determine your salary, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources and reputed company the high-end of the reputed company, ensuring that we’re always paying above market regardless of where you live in the world.

The reputed company compensation for this role is

• Zone 2: $ 192,000 USD reputed company
• Zone 3: $ 144,000 USD reputed company

In reputed company to our cash compensation, we offer equity (because reputed company we succeed as a company, we want you to succeed, too) and generous perks & benefits.

Interview process

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role (you can read more about the types of interviews in our Handbook). It may look like a lot of steps, but rest reputed company that we reputed company quickly and the steps are designed to help you get the information needed to determine if we’re the right fit for you… Interviewing is a two-way street, after reputed company!

👋 Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you reputed company…

• [30m] Recruiter Screen
• [15m] Hiring Manager Intro

🧑‍💻 Team Interview Stage - we then delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of reputed company, including cross-functional partners…

• [60m] Technical Interview
• [45m] Product Team Collaboration Interview
• [45m] Cross-functional Team Collaboration Interview
• [60m] Peer Interview / Values Interview

🎉 Final Interview Stage - we reputed company you to our final round, where you reputed company a reputed company understanding of our business and values holistically…

• [30m] Hiring Manager Interview
• We reputed company references and conduct your background reputed company

Please note - you are welcome to request additional conversations with anyone you would like to meet, but didn’t get to meet during the interview process.

Learn more reputed company

You can learn more about what it is like to work at reputed company by reading our handbook.

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reputed company is an equal opportunity workplace; we welcome people from reputed company backgrounds.

reputed company participates in E-Verify for U.S. Employees.

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