Senior Manager of Engineering, Compute

Location: Seattle, United States; hybrid role

Salary: $200,800–$251,000 annually, plus eligibility for an annual bonus plan and potential equity grant.

Company

hirify.global builds scalable cloud and AI infrastructure for software developers and businesses.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and scale multiple software engineering teams within Compute Infrastructure.
• Drive the multi-quarter roadmap for compute orchestration and distributed control plane services.
• Establish operational rigor, automated telemetry, and SLO/SLA standards to improve platform uptime and customer droplet performance.
• Allocate resources and prioritize initiatives across operational commitments to deliver predictable infrastructure outcomes.
• Partner with Product Management, Capacity Planning, and Core Cloud teams to translate business needs into scalable platform capabilities.
• Guide architectural reviews, simplify Go microservices, reduce technical debt, and cultivate psychological safety and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Experience leading and scaling software engineering teams focused on low-level infrastructure, Go microservices, distributed control planes, or virtualization primitives such as KVM, libvirt, QEMU, or gRPC.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, high-throughput microservices, and control-plane orchestration in large-scale virtualized cloud platforms.
• Experience leading, coaching, and scaling multi-team engineering organizations.
• Proven record of delivering complex, multi-quarter infrastructure programs on schedule.
• Exceptional relational intelligence and empathetic communication, including the ability to connect technical discussions with business priorities and build cross-organizational trust.
• Curiosity, openness to candid feedback, and a continuous-improvement mindset.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with a focus on ownership, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, subject to company policy.
• Benefits may include flexible time off, local team meetups, and mental health and well-being support, varying by location and eligibility.
• Eligible employees may receive annual bonuses, equity compensation, and—in participating countries—access to an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Applications are limited to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period.