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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Experience - **Company:** United States Digital Space LLC - **Location:** Greater London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Continuous Integration, Software Architecture, Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, AI Platforms, Kubernetes - **Published:** September 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840635913-senior-engineering-manager-developer-experience ## About the Role You have proven experience leading platform, infrastructure, or internal tooling teams at a senior engineering manager level, with a track record of owning a technical domain end-to-end. You bring strong technical foundation across the DevEx stack: CI/CD, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent), Kubernetes-based platforms - sufficient to make sound architectural decisions and earn engineer trust. You know how to lead through ambiguity and organisational change, including reorgs, scope shifts, or leadership transitions. You can build and communicate a product-style roadmap for a platform domain, with clear prioritisation and a narrative that lands with both engineers and senior stakeholders. You have a genuine curiosity about AI tooling in an engineering context and the confidence to lead a greenfield domain in this space. ## Description The Developer Experience team owns the internal platform that every the company engineer touches daily: CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, our developer portal, and an emerging AI platform. It's a high-visibility role: the work you lead directly shapes the productivity of hundreds of engineers across the company. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to take full ownership of this domain, grow a team of seven engineers, and define what great developer experience looks like at the company as we scale. What you'll do Lead and develop a growing team of 5+ highly motivated engineers across observability, CI/CD, developer portal (Backstage), and FinOps tooling - setting clear priorities and establishing strong ways of working. Own and evolve the technical roadmap across all DevEx domains, communicating trade-offs clearly to engineering leadership and internal stakeholders. Shape the AI Platform domain from the ground up - defining its charter and identifying where AI tooling adds real value for the company engineers. Partner with product engineering managers and platform peers to drive measurable improvements in deploy frequency, onboarding time, and support load. Build the case for how the team needs to grow, identifying skill gaps and preparing the organisation for a future where this role leads other engineering managers., Opportunity to work with a truly global, multicultural team from our central London office location - this involves an office-first setup. Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: be part of a workplace that values and promotes diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone's perspectives are respected and embraced. Enrolment onto our Virtual Stock Option programme: you will own a stake in the company's future success. 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