Engineering Manager

CloudBees

. Own delivery and team health for Feature Management .

Posted 10/9/2026full-timeChennai • IndiaSeniorLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing distributed engineering teams while fostering team health and performance. Possesses a solid technical background in software development and engineering management, with a focus on automation, developer tooling, and effective decision-making.

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Engineering ManagementDistributed Team ManagementCI/CDAutomation ImprovementCoding Agent Experience

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentGoJavaFeature FlaggingPlatform EngineeringRelease OrchestrationDeployment FrequencyLead TimeChange Failure RateTime To Restore

Soft Skills

Team Health ManagementFeedback DeliveryPerformance ManagementDecision-MakingProcess Improvement

Tools & Technologies

Claude CodeGeminiCursorKiro

Industry Keywords

Feature ManagementAutomationDeveloper ToolingMulti-Timezone Teams

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own delivery and team health for Feature Management
Steer technical decisions through questions while allowing engineers to own architecture
Give feedback in the moment
Hire, grow, and address performance issues
Remove unnecessary processes
Use AI agents to gather team and delivery information, including PTO, PR lead time, ticket attention, shipped work, and incidents
Manage a distributed team spanning three continents and approximately ten time zones
Do not write code, approve every pull request, or attend every incident call

Requirements

What you’ll need

At least 5 years as a software developer before moving into management (ideally, developed in Go)
5+ years as an actual engineering manager
Managed 5 or more direct reports at once
Track record of improving automation and developer tooling
Technical background in CI/CD, feature flagging, or platform engineering
Experience managing engineers who are better coders than the manager
Experience running distributed, multi-timezone teams
Knowledge of deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and time to restore
Recent, hands-on use of at least one coding agent (Claude Code, Gemini, Cursor, Kiro, or similar)
Experience taking over a team mid-transition
Prior exposure to release orchestration (nice to have)
Java development experience (nice to have)