Senior Engineering Manager (Non-Linear Productivity)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Manager (Non-Linear Productivity): Building and leading a 0-to-1 pilot squad to find and fix highest-leverage friction points in hirify.global’s SDLC with an accent on root-cause diagnosis, shift-left engineering productivity, and measurable system-level outcomes. Focus on instrumenting MRPM, pipeline success rate, and pipeline latency, designing compounding fixes, and driving durable internal adoption before graduation to a permanent function.

Location: Remote (Canada; United Kingdom; US)

Salary: $190,000 - $245,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that helps organizations ship better, more secure software faster.

What you will do

• Define and refine the operating model for the non-linear productivity pilot, including how “friction” is diagnosed and how fixes are prioritized against MRPM, pipeline success rate, and pipeline latency.
• Recruit and lead a small, hand-picked team of 4 engineers, setting technical direction, working norms, and hiring/evaluation bar.
• Instrument and baseline the three system-level metrics, then diagnose highest-leverage friction points using real data before committing team time.
• Design and implement compounding fixes across the SDLC (shift-left quality changes, tooling investment, and improved context/interfaces for humans and agents).
• Drive internal adoption with affected engineering teams, track metric movement honestly, and codify reusable playbooks for org-wide rollout.
• Establish reporting cadence to EM peers and leadership based on metric movement, ensure CI/CD reliability risk is managed, and define pilot “graduation” criteria.

Requirements

• Track record leading small, high-autonomy engineering teams with outcomes in developer productivity, CI/CD, platform, or infrastructure reliability (system-level metrics over feature delivery).
• Deep comfort with CI/CD and build systems, including understanding what causes pipeline flakiness and latency and what truly improves success-rate and latency.
• Strong root-cause mindset and talent bar (preference for running understaffed over hiring “good-enough”).
• Ability to operate under metrics-driven accountability, including publicly baselining metrics and reporting results honestly.
• Executive-level communication skills and ability to drive visibility with engineering leadership.

Nice to have

• Experience with agentic or AI-assisted development workflows and understanding of human vs agent friction patterns.
• Experience running a defined-window pilot or 0-to-1 initiative with explicit success criteria.
• Familiarity with hirify.global CI/CD internals or equivalent depth in another large-scale build/test system.

Culture & Benefits

• All roles are remote, with some roles potentially having location-based eligibility requirements.
• Flexible paid time off and support for health, finances, and well-being.
• Equity compensation and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Growth and development fund plus parental leave.