Senior Engineering Manager - Test Systems & Tooling

Location: United States

Salary: $268,000–$351,750 per year, depending on experience and location; eligible for equity participation.

Company

hirify.global builds open-source programming technology designed to make applications more reliable and help developers deliver features faster.

What you will do

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop the Test Systems & Tooling engineering team.
• Build shared systems and environments that reproduce production topology, configuration, scale, and behavior.
• Enable workload replay, realistic workload generation, multi-tenant testing, load testing, and stress testing.
• Establish repeatable validation for dependency failures, latency, resource exhaustion, degraded-state recovery, and regional failure scenarios.
• Create testing frameworks, patterns, guidance, and test-health visibility for product teams.
• Drive system-level coverage outcomes and collaborate with Cloud/Infrastructure, Reliability, Release Engineering, and product teams.

Requirements

• Experience managing and developing a high-performing engineering team with direct reports.
• Strong technical background building or operating reliable distributed systems or adjacent platform infrastructure.
• Experience delivering internal platforms or tooling adopted by multiple teams.
• Ability to align stakeholders, clarify ownership, and drive execution across ambiguous, cross-team problem spaces.
• Ability to define measurable outcomes such as adoption, confidence signals, reduced escaped issues, and faster incident-to-coverage time.

Nice to have

• Experience with chaos engineering, fault injection, workload replay or shadowing, performance testing, or multi-tenant test strategies.
• Experience partnering with Release Engineering or CI/CD platform teams to institutionalize pipeline validations.
• Familiarity with observability, incident response, and converting incident learnings into preventative test coverage.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, curious, driven, genuine, and humble working culture.
• Unlimited PTO, 12 holidays, and 2 floating holidays for U.S. full-time employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision premiums covered at 100% in the U.S.
• 401(k), disability and life insurance, learning and development support, lifestyle spending, home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and internet stipend.
• International benefits are provided by country in partnership with Remote.com; occasional travel for company events and team offsites may be required.