Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

Sift is hiring a hands-on engineering manager to lead and scale our engineering team. In this role, you'll be instrumental in driving the technical execution of our product roadmap while ensuring our engineering practices are solid and scalable. You'll work closely with our engineers, product team, and customers to solve complex technical challenges and deliver innovative solutions to customers building satellite constellations, renewable energy, and autonomous transportation. You will also have the unique opportunity to build and refine our engineering processes from the ground up.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager who thrives in dynamic, high-growth environments and is passionate about building exceptional teams and products. This is a rare opportunity to shape an early-stage company's success by driving engineering excellence. You will report to our Co-Founder and CTO and play a critical role in aligning the team's efforts with Sift's long-term technical vision.

In this role, you'll :

• Lead a team of engineers, accelerate their growth by providing thoughtful feedback and technical mentorship, and effectively manage their performance.
• Collaborate with go-to-market, product, and engineering to build and champion a long-term technical roadmap that reduces the operational burden, ensures scalability, and mitigates risk.
• Work closely with customers, including hardware engineers, to understand their problems and find efficient solutions.
• Drive execution, ensuring high-quality projects are delivered on time and aligned with company goals.
• Establish and refine engineering processes, including code reviews, sprint planning, and post-mortems, that increase velocity, maintain product quality, and ensure high technical standards.
• Track and report key engineering metrics (e.g., error rates, shipping velocity) to ensure continuous improvement and efficient execution.
• Help scale the engineering team.
• Contribute to the codebase, working on high-impact features and helping solve critical technical challenges.

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Engineering at Sift :

Location :

Sift headquarters is located in Los Angeles (El Segundo), and we work in a hybrid environment. We work closely with hardware companies building everything from autonomous vehicles to spacecraft, and many of them are based in L.A. As a customer-centric company, it's essential to be nearby for site visits and collaboration.

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