Engineering Manager, Extensibility

Job Description

CircleCI is looking for an experienced technology leader to join our Extensibility team. Are you passionate about people, processes, collaboration, and delivery? This might be the perfect role for you!

About the team

The Extensibility team focuses on making it fast and easy for our customers to extend CircleCI into their own processes and systems. We are a team that values collaboration, objectivity, inclusion and openness. We make data-driven decisions and find creative ways to iteratively deliver value quickly. As Engineering Manager, you will support the growth of our individual engineers, as well as develop the operational practices of our team.

This is a full-time role in North America.

What you’ll do:

This role is a people management role focused on the development of engineers and the delivery of business value. Your recurring tasks and responsibilities include:

• Business value delivery : Ensure incremental value delivery and high-quality standards for the team while supporting strategic work in collaboration with our Product organization. We're a part of the Product Experiences organization, with goals that directly affect customer outcomes. You’ll partner with product management to develop and deliver these outcomes
• Learning and Development : Attract, onboard, and retain diverse top talent. Develop people and the team through coaching, mentoring, and management support. Conduct regular 1:1s, goal setting, and feedback conversations with engineers to ensure their well-being and team health, and support them in their career growth. Continuously work to improve inclusion and belonging.
• Process and Product : Maintain high levels of transparency and efficiency while collaborating with other development teams and product managers. You’ll also be involved in broader organisational development and cross-team initiatives with the rest of our engineering management team.
• Technical work : Help grow the expertise of your team in system performance, reliability, resilience, scalability, maintainable architecture, and experimentation. We don’t expect you to write or review code on a regular basis -- you have a team of excellent engineers for that -- so this role may not be for you if you will deeply miss those things. You should be technical enough to earn team trust, facilitate discussions and decisions, anticipate pitfalls, and occasionally be the tiebreaker in technical decision-making.

What we're looking for:

There’s no such thing as an “ideal” candidate -- we are all a work in progress and are growing new skills and capabilities continuously. In general, we’re looking for:

• People development : You have at least two years of experience building and leading software development teams, with at least some time doing so remotely. Your experience includes hiring, having engineers directly reporting to you, and supporting them in their growth.
• Delivery : You are knowledgeable about modern software engineering practices and how to apply them. You believe in agile and lean values. You're experienced with using these methods in practice to continuously deliver business value. Experience with incident management and integrating it with delivery is a strong bonus.
• Leadership : You are a strong collaborator who emphasizes continuous learning, and you know how to build strong, productive teams. You find satisfaction in developing people and building inclusive teams. You’re comfortable with ambiguity and turning that into just enough structure to call it process. You delight in helping to scale people and systems alike.
• Learning : You bias toward action to continuously improve the teams you work with. You believe in open communication, direct feedback, quick experimentation, blamelessness, and embracing failure in order to learn from it.
• Communication : You’re an effective communicator. You have strong feedback skills, communicate openly with your team, and are willing to be wrong and have your mind changed. You’re adept at difficult conversations. You’re proficient in English in verbal and written form.

CircleCI welcomes those passionate about learning and evolving, so however you identify and whatever your background, if this looks like a role where you could do your best work, we hope you’ll apply.

How we hire Engineering Managers

Over the last year, we have made some critical shifts in our understanding of what we believe makes a phenomenal engineering manager at CircleCI, and learned a lot about our needs and values as an organization along the way. We wrote about this evolution, and what our hiring process for engineering managers looks like now: What we've learned about hiring engineering managers .

About CircleCI

CircleCI is the world’s largest shared continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the central hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools that processes more than 1 million builds a day, CircleCI has unique access to data on how engineering teams work, and how their code runs. Companies like Spotify, Coinbase and BuzzFeed use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster.

CircleCI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Colorado Salary Range: $144,000 - $180,000/year

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Level: Mid-Senior Level