Developer Experience Engineering Manager

The Engineering Manager leads the Developer Experience (DevEx) initiative, improving developer productivity, engineering quality, and delivery effectiveness through shared platforms, tooling, automation, and engineering best practices. This role serves as a hands-on technical leader who partners closely with Engineering, DevOps, Delivery, and platform teams to reduce developer friction, improve quality of life for engineers, and enable the efficient delivery of high-quality software across the organization About the Role:

• Leads team(s) throughout software development lifecycle.
• Recruits, mentors, coaches, retains, inspires engineering individual contributors and tech leads on a day-to-day basis.
• Sets and tracks goals and objectives with each assigned team member.
• Participates and assists with expense approval and budget planning.
• Creatively solves problems and clear roadblocks that often cross technical and human factor domains.
• Conducts and attends meetings with key stakeholders to present facts that lead to quality decisions.
• Communicates effectively and provides clarity in a 360 fashion.
• Collaborates with architects, tech leads, engineering managers, engineers, and quality engineering to build and deliver excellence and improve how we deliver, maintain and monitor quality software.

• 12+ years in industry with progressive growth in responsibility; 5+ years technical leadership and managing teams of 5 or more engineers
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to translate technical topics for diverse internal audiences and drive alignment.
• Proven people management: hiring, coaching, performance management, and growing engineers and tech leads; strong emotional intelligence and organizational rigor.
• Developer Experience / internal platform product mindset: implement vision, roadmap, and success metrics for capabilities that serve internal teams (best practices, common libraries, templates, and paved paths).
• Internal customer partnership and operating model: intake and prioritization, clear engagement expectations, stakeholder management, and cross-team influence across Product Engineering.
• Developer productivity measurement and continuous improvement: define baselines and outcomes (e.g., DORA metrics, CI cycle time, onboarding/time-to-first-commit, adoption, and developer satisfaction) and use them to guide investment.
• Platform adoption and change management: migrations, deprecations, versioning/backward compatibility, release communications, office hours, and enablement to scale usage of common solutions.
• Governance and stewardship for shared libraries and platform capabilities: API/design standards, contribution model, ownership, support expectations/SLAs, and secure-by-default patterns.
• Documentation and enablement excellence: high-quality reference docs, runnable examples, golden paths, templates, and reference architectures that make the easiest path the best path.
• Must have Amazon AWS experience (EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, SQS, ELB, Lambda) and experience with service/microservices-oriented architecture in a containerized environment.
• Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and integrating into CI/CD pipelines, with priority for Terraform and GitHub/GitLab experience.
• Strong skills in at least one programming language: GoLang, C#, or TypeScript; ability to stay hands-on for design reviews, prototypes, mentoring, and raising the engineering bar.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs and web protocols and technologies (HTTPS, CORS, Postman, JSON, XML, GraphQL).
• Experience implementing event-driven architectures using Kafka, Kinesis, or SNS for scalable and resilient distributed systems.
• Expertise in observability practices (metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing) using Dynatrace and OpenTelemetry; define standards and provide reusable instrumentation patterns.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and cost optimization; define and operate SLOs for developer-facing platform services (e.g., CI/CD, artifact management, developer environments).
• Strong understanding of service mesh and modern container orchestration patterns.
• Proven ability to lead teams to predictable delivery using Agile frameworks while reducing toil through automation and self-service.
• Strong capability in managing technical debt strategically, balancing near-term delivery with long-term maintainability of shared platforms and libraries.
• Demonstrated ability to foster effective use of AI and automation across engineering teams to improve developer productivity, decision-making, and delivery efficiency

4.34.3 out of 5 stars United States Remote $153,800 - $211,400 a year, Pulled from the full job description

• Tuition reimbursement
• 401(k)
• Paid time off, * People-focused, entrepreneurial culture with the backing of a stable, global, corporate entity - The Nemetschek Group
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Fully vested 401K right from the day you start
• Generous PTO, including sick/mental health & volunteer days
• Free & unlimited access to BetterUp Care, a well-being platform
• Work-life balance fostered through a culture of diversity, inclusion, and appreciation of individual lifestyle needs
• Opportunity for continuous professional development
• Free & unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
• Up to $5K annual education reimbursement (after 1 year tenure)

Below is our DEIBA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility) mission statement: Bluebeam is committed to building an inclusive environment in which everyone, regardless of background, has an opportunity to experience a deep sense of belonging. Each of our unique perspectives amplifies our collective power, and by encouraging diverse perspectives in an environment infused with mutual respect, we arrive at better solutions. And when we bring the best version of ourselves to work, we can make our best contributions to the global community of people who build our world. About Bluebeam The construction industry is adopting new technology at a feverish pace. Tablets and cell phones are replacing paper blueprints, drones are surveying jobsites in 3D, and cloud collaboration is changing the way teams work together. Bluebeam plays a crucial role in this transformation. The key to our success is a customer-focused approach to product development: we work with the industry to create solutions for the industry. Today, over 3 million people throughout the world use Bluebeam. In the US, we’re a critical partner for the majority of top AEC firms, and rapidly expanding our presence globally, with offices in Sweden, Germany and the UK. Come design and build your future with us! Bluebeam is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status. Base pay offered will depend upon qualifications and other operational considerations. Base pay is one part of Bluebeam’s Total Rewards program, which seeks to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for commission under the terms of an applicable commission plan, while most non-sales position are eligible for a bonus under the terms of an applicable bonus plan. Additionally, Bluebeam provides best in class benefits, with health and welfare benefits and paid time off. Bluebeam is a growing company with many opportunities. If this role and/or pay range is not an exact fit, we still encourage you to apply. The base pay range for this position is: $153,800-$211,400. #Bluebeam #LI-Remote #LI-EU1

At Bluebeam, we empower people to advance the way the world is built. We create smart software solutions that make construction sites more efficient, connected and safe and improve the lives of design and construction professionals everywhere.