Senior Engineering Manager, Halcyon

• This role is ideal for someone who is excited to step into a hands-on leadership role where they can stay close to the team, help shape outcomes, and create lasting impact through influence rather than authority
• Experience leading multiple engineering teams, preferably in fast-paced, high-growth SaaS
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and DevOps practices, including AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling
• Track record of creating strong team culture, high trust, and psychological safety
• Effective coach with experience guiding engineers, peers, and upward into executive leadership
• Solid understanding of modern software development practices, including infrastructure, observability, and reliability
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, scaling challenges, and cross-functional alignment
• Excellent communicator who leads with clarity, empathy, and pragmatism

Desirable

• Halcyon is seeking a thoughtful, experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our team and help scale our growing engineering organization. This is a critical role focused on enabling sustainable growth, fostering engineering excellence, and supporting a high-trust, high-autonomy team culture
• You'll work closely with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure team health, reliable execution, and a strong sense of purpose and accountability
• We're looking for someone who brings a servant-leadership mindset, a mentoring orientation, and a steady hand during both calm and storm. You will report to the Director of Cloud Engineering and partner closely with peer leaders across Product, Engineering, QA, and Agile
• Lead and support one or more Cloud Engineering teams
• Foster a culture of psychological safety, autonomy, and accountability
• Actively mentor engineers and emerging leaders to grow their impact and effectiveness
• Partner with leaders across the organization to drive infrastructure strategy, CI/CD improvements, observability practices, and operational maturity
• Collaborate closely with product, QA, and agility partners to align on priorities, delivery, and scope
• Own operational health of your teams: on-call rotations, velocity tracking, and continuous improvement
• Step in to unblock teams, remove organizational friction, and help create momentum
• Maintain deep context on what your team is building and why, offering strategic perspective without micromanaging
• Occasionally dip into the codebase to review pull requests, understand implementation details, and provide relevant technical feedback
• Support a strong culture of engineering rigor, ensuring teams build with quality, observability, security, and performance in mind
• Partner with engineers and technical leads to shape architectural direction and maintain high technical standards