Software Engineering Manager

The Meta Game, Inc.
Menlo Park, CA, United States
5 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$219,000.0 - $301,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Distributed Systems Software Engineering Software Systems Prompt Engineering

Job description

  • Manage multiple engineering teams and technical leaders delivering on large-scale projects with significant organizational dependencies and business impact
  • Actively shape technical strategy and long-term roadmap priorities by synthesizing team insights and aligning with broader organizational goals
  • Drive efficient execution against strategy by proactively identifying and resolving blockers related to vision, people, or project delivery
  • Maintain technical engagement across teams by evaluating technical direction and quality, and contributing directly where appropriate
  • Delegate key technical and product responsibilities to leads to ensure sound and timely engineering decisions are made
  • Build and grow the team by proactively sourcing, recruiting, and closing candidates, and by developing engineering leaders from within and outside the organization
  • Foster a self-reinforcing team culture that values engineering craft, healthy codebases, and efficient workflows and tooling
  • Proactively monitor and improve team health through regular feedback cycles, upward feedback, and retention efforts informed by engagement data
  • Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization, sharing relevant context and helping stakeholders understand how emerging technologies reshape what is possible
  • Model cross-functional ownership by ensuring engineers engage substantively with product, design, and data partners rather than operating in silos

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience in technical leadership or engineering management roles
  • 2+ years of experience managing other engineering managers or technical leaders
  • Experience recruiting, developing, and managing engineering teams, including performance management and career development
  • Experience influencing technical strategy and roadmap decisions across multiple teams or organizational areas
  • Experience communicating technical decisions and organizational context to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, * Experience building and scaling engineering organizations in ambiguous, high-growth environments
  • Track record of improving engineering efficiency through tooling, workflow improvements, or process changes adopted across teams
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  • Experience managing teams delivering on distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform-scale software projects

About the company

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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