Software Engineering Manager, Ternary
$200-250k
+ Equity
Cloud computing cost management
Be an early applicant
Cloud computing cost management
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-250k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the future of cost management in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- If you thrive at the intersection of technical depth and team leadership — and want your decisions to define how a high-growth platform scales — this is the right role
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful time building full stack web applications and data-intensive platforms
- 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead manager role, with a track record of shipping complex projects through a team
- Strong full stack technical depth: you are comfortable contributing to React/TypeScript frontends, Node.js or Go backend services, and BigQuery or large-scale data warehousing
- Demonstrated product sense — you make engineering decisions in the context of customer value and business outcomes, not just technical elegance
- Proven ability to drive clarity in ambiguous environments: you identify the problem, align stakeholders, and move to execution without waiting for perfect information
- Strong communicator across levels — engineering team, cross-functional peers, and senior leadership
- Experience at both high-growth startups and mature engineering organizations is a strong signal
- Actively uses AI tools (e.g. Copilot, Cursor, Claude, LLM-assisted workflows) to accelerate engineering delivery — and expects and enables your team to do the same. Strong preference
- Hands-on experience building AI-powered product features: LLM integration, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI agent workflows. Strong plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our full stack engineering team
- This is a player-coach role: you will own a critical segment of our product and platform while directly contributing to architecture, code review, and technical execution
- You will report to the VP of Product Delivery and work closely with Product, Design, and other engineering leads to ship high-quality software at pace
- Lead and grow a full stack engineering team: hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development
- Remain hands-on — actively contributing to architecture, design reviews, and code; you set the technical bar by example
- Own end-to-end delivery of major product and platform initiatives: planning, design, implementation, deployment, and production performance
- Drive architectural decisions that determine how the platform scales to serve enterprise finance and engineering buyers
- Partner closely with Product Management to translate customer needs and business requirements into executable engineering plans
- Define and enforce engineering best practices: code quality, testing standards, CI/CD, documentation, and incident response
- Make informed tradeoffs between tactical execution and long-term technical strategy, surfacing risks and options clearly to stakeholders
- Uplift the team through structured feedback, regular 1:1s, and a culture of high ownership and psychological safety
Our take
As businesses increasingly move their data and processing power off premises, finance teams must ensure cloud spending remains in budget. However, collaboration with engineers to manage cloud usage can prove difficult, with anomalies often addressed after they have occurred. Ternary’s Google Cloud native tool connects finance and engineer teams to one another, and provides automation for collaboration.
Ternary was founded in 2020 in response to the founders’ first-hand challenges getting engineering and finance teams to collaborate on cloud spend. Its platform combats reactive management of variable cloud spending by empowering engineers to make informed cloud-cost decisions, and also giving finance teams context for where their cloud budget is being spent. To date, it has managed over $7 billion in cloud spend, realising $1.5 billion in savings for its customers.
The company has over 100 active enterprise customers and is FinOps Foundation certified. It is riding the AI wave by adopting the new technology to predict business cloud needs, automatically generating actionable insights around cost reductions and anomalies.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2023
$12m
SERIES A
Feb 2022
$6.8m
SEED
Total funding: $18.8m
Company benefits
- Equity: We offer competitive equity so that you can own the outcomes of the company.
- HealthCare: We offer a range of United Healthcare and Kaiser health plans. We cover 100% of employee premiums and 75% of spouses/dependents.
- 401(k): We offer a 401(k) retirement plan managed by Guideline.
- PTO: We offer unlimited PTO to encourage everyone to take the time they need to recharge.
- Remote-First with Sponsored Team Travel: We are a remote-first company offering flexibility to everyone to work where it makes sense. We also sponsor frequent team meet-ups.
- WFH Budget: We provide you with a budget to get your home office set up so that you can be comfortable and productive from day one.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sasha Kipervarg
(Co-Founder & CEO)Governing Board Member at FinOps Foundation. Former Head of Global Cloud Operations at LiveRamp.
Joshua Kwan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Team Lead and Architect, DevOps at LiveRamp. Previously Senior Software Engineer at Arbor and at Schrödinger.
Patrick Raymond
(Co-Founder & CPO)Former Sr. Product Manager at LiveRamp. Previously Director of Operations at DimEye Corp.
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