Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager and Architect (Data Engineering/Platform Engineering/Devops)

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid Model—2 days in Office)

People & Team Leadershi

• Manage and grow a high-performing team of engineers (developers, data engineers, and DevOps), providing regular 1:1s, coaching, feedback, and career development
• Create a culture of ownership, learning, and psychological safety where engineers feel empowered to improve the platform and challenge the status quo
• Drive hiring, onboarding, and performance management for the team, setting clear expectations and outcomes

.Required Qualificatio

• 10–15 years of industry experience building and operating cloud-based products or platform
• 3–5+ years of experience in people management (not just tech lead), ideally in developer & DE experience domain
• Strong hands-on background with modern DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) or serverless, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and observability stack
• Proven experience designing or evolving internal platforms/tools used by many product teams (e.g., deployment platforms, service templates, shared libraries, internal CLIs
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals (APIs, microservices, distributed systems, security basics) and ability to review designs and code at a high leve
• Demonstrated ability to set direction, manage stakeholders, and drive alignment across multiple teams and function
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical trade-offs into clear options for engineering and business stakeholder

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in a staff/principal engineer or tech lead role before moving into managem
• Prior work in Developer Productivity/Enablement, Platform Enginee
• Exposure to policies and tooling around SDLC governance, security controls, and compliance (e.g., audit trails, approvals, policy-as-code)
• Experience with data platforms or analytics pipelines supporting engineering metrics and observability