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Engineering Manager (Developer Experience)
York and North YorkshireSource: WhatJobs
£90,000–£120,000
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team within our build, test, and deploy platform organization, which powers CI/CD for CoreWeave engineering
This role blends hands-on technical judgment with people leadership - you’ll guide your team’s execution on continuous integration (CI), build systems, artifact management and release automation, while partnering closely with senior engineers and technical leads on day-to-day design and operational decisions
You’ll be accountable for your team’s health and execution, translating broader platform strategy into concrete, achievable work for your team
Guide the technical direction for your team’s area of ownership within the CI, build and artifact management - helping shape design decisions on pipelines, optimizations, or automation
Identify opportunities to modernize workflows and reduce friction in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), and help drive adoption of new platform capabilities across internal teams
Uphold standards for reliability, performance, and security within your team’s scope, balancing high-availability requirements with developer experience
Break down roadmap priorities into clear, actionable plans for your team, and track relevant business metrics (e.g. CI reliability, build time, artifactory latency)
Manage day-to-day execution, including technical debt tradeoffs and unblocking your team to hit measurable outcomes
Grow and support your team members directly - regular 1:1s, mentorship, and fostering ownership and collaboration within the team
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, or similar
Champion of using automation and AI to reduce toil and improve velocity and quality
Comfortable defining, tracking and continuously improving business metrics (reliability, velocity, quality) for your team
Working knowledge of cloud platforms, containerization and modern CI / build practices such as GitHub Actions, JFrog Artifactory, Bazel, or similar
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years directly managing engineers on platform, infrastructure, or internal developer teams
Working knowledge or hands-on experience with Kubernetes
Hands-on experience building or operating CI, build or artifact platforms at scale - CI pipelines, release automation, build systems, or artifact management
Solid understanding of SDLC practices, code review workflows, and branching/release strategies (e.g., trunk-based development)
Clear communicator, able to represent your team’s work and technical tradeoffs to both engineers and cross-functional stakeholders
Experience managing and mentoring engineers with a track record of supporting individual growth and team execution
Familiarity with DORA metrics and delivery performance measurement
Background in regulated or security-sensitive environments
Exposure to supply-chain security and compliance
Experience managing engineers in a distributed environment
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