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# Engineering Manager, AI Development Platforms

- **Company:** Motion Recruitment Partners LLC.
- **Location:** Belmont, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $234,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Code Review, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Programming Tools, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Spring Cloud, Large Language Models, Backend, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/046f2a4c-4cdd-430c-a380-f75ba1062584

## About the Role

* 10+ years of software engineering experience
 * 2+ years of engineering management, team leadership, or technical leadership experience
 * Strong hands-on background in backend software engineering
 * Experience designing and building cloud-native applications and services
 * Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices
 * Experience with Kubernetes and containerized applications
 * Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and infrastructure automation
 * Proven experience leading major technical initiatives from architecture through production deployment
 * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
 * Passion for improving engineering productivity through automation and tooling

Desired Skills & Experience

 * Experience leading Developer Experience, Developer Productivity, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or DevOps teams
 * Experience building internal developer tools and self-service engineering platforms
 * Experience managing backend and infrastructure-focused engineers
 * Experience implementing AI-assisted development tools and workflow automation
 * Familiarity with LLM-powered developer tooling and agent-based development workflows
 * Experience supporting high-frequency software releases
 * Startup or high-growth technology company experience
 * Experience working across distributed engineering teams, Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

## Description

* Lead and mentor a team of engineers focused on engineering productivity and AI-powered development platforms
 * Remain hands-on by contributing to architecture, technical design, code reviews, automation initiatives, and critical engineering projects
 * Partner with engineers to solve complex technical challenges across infrastructure, deployment, and developer tooling
 * Build and enhance internal platforms that help engineers develop, test, deploy, and operate software more efficiently
 * Drive improvements across CI/CD, observability, testing automation, and software delivery systems
 * Evaluate and implement AI-powered development tools that improve engineering efficiency
 * Establish technical standards and best practices across platform engineering and software delivery
 * Lead major engineering initiatives from planning through production rollout
 * Collaborate closely with engineering leadership on long-term platform strategy
 * Help foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement

Leadership / Hands-On Mix

 * Approximately 50% leadership, mentoring, and technical strategy
 * Approximately 50% hands-on technical contribution, architecture, design reviews, and engineering initiatives


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