Senior Engineering Manager Devices - United States

As a Senior Engineering Manager for Devices you won't just manage teams you will be a primary architect of our engineering culture. You will lead a critical sub-organization responsible for the backbone of our device management platform. We are looking for a leader who possesses deep technical intuition a passion for operational excellence and the ability to mentor high-level talent while partnering with executive leadership to define the future of our product.

You will be responsible to build out features help drive architecture define best practices and enable product quality. You are required to guide the engineering teams reporting to you to make things happen and excel. In this process you will have influence over engineering practices in addition to product strategy and execution.

You will have the opportunity to play a key role in the success and development of our engineering teams in addition to growing your own career. We are seeking a technically enabled leader who is passionate about building great products and high performing teams. 

In this role you will:

As part of the Devices Engineering team and as part of the engineering team as a whole here at JumpCloud you will be responsible for managing and guiding multiple global engineering teams reporting to you.

Set and maintain the technical bar for the Devices Management group. Drive high engineering standards across the organization including rigorous architectural reviews automated testing strategies and operational excellence.

Partner with Product and Design leadership to define the strategic vision. You will translate complex business requirements into high-level technical execution plans that balance aggressive delivery with technical sustainability.

Drive the adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows to measurably improve developer velocity and reduce routine boilerplate work.

Identify and resolve systemic organizational bottlenecks. You will be responsible for optimizing the SDLC improving developer velocity and utilizing data (such as DORA metrics) to drive continuous improvement in team performance.

As an active member of the engineering leadership team you will partner with your peers and other teams to build lead and inspire a world class engineering organization.

What we are looking for:

8+ years of experience in engineering leadership with at least 3+ years managing multiple teams or a sub-organization of 10+ engineers

Experience leading and building software engineering teams developing on top of public clouds like AWS GCP or Azure

Demonstrated track record of developing leadership talent (mentoring Senior engineers into Lead Staff or Manager roles)

Proven ability to lead and empower high-level Individual Contributors (Staff+). You know how to leverage their technical expertise to drive strategy while providing them with the organizational support and air cover they need to execute

Experience implementing AI-assisted engineering workflows (e.g. Copilot automated code reviews AI-generated unit tests) and can demonstrate how these tools have measurably improved team throughput and code quality

Track record of leading and driving team and/or organizational projects/initiatives to successful on-time completion and/or delivery

Strong understanding of software engineering principles and techniques

Track record of Software-as-a-Service Ownership and strong proponent of Reliability Principles 

Hands-on experience working with agile teams

Ability to work and communicate effectively with other engineering managers and both technical and non-technical business stakeholders

Ability to quickly integrate new technologies and industry best practices into your skill sets

Experience managing cross-functional teams including Software and Quality Engineers

Strong track record in finding hiring growing and retaining High Performing Engineers 

Proven ability to thrive in a fast-moving team-oriented collaborative environment

Track record of continuous improvement through innovation delivery process development quality etc.

Experience leading geographically diverse engineering teams in today’s remote first work environment

Bonus points if you have experience with:

Commercial software development in a variety of languages and operating systems technologies (Golang C++ Python Java Kernels OS libraries etc.)

MacOS or Windows development including working with native libraries and frameworks

Strong technical foundation in software engineering design principles

What We Do

JumpCloud’s mission is to Make Work Happen® providing simple secure access to an organization’s technology resources from any device or any location. The JumpCloud Open Directory Platform gives IT security operations and DevOps a single cloud-based solution to control and manage employee identities and their devices and apply conditional access controls based on Zero Trust principals. Since launching in 2012 our global user base has grown to more than 150000 organizations with more than 5000 paying customers including Cars.com GoFundMe Grab ClassPass Uplight and Peloton. JumpCloud has raised over $400M from world-class investors including Sapphire Ventures General Atlantic Sands Capital Atlassian and CrowdStrike. Our teams are growing fast too and we're looking for talent across engineering sales customer success marketing product management and more. Join our team of dedicated passionate and creative people who are eager to change the IT industry forever. We live by our core values which are: Build Connections Think Big 1% Better Every Day

Why Work With Us

We offer an incredible opportunity to see your impact. Each team member gets an up close personal view and education into building a fast growing startup. We are transparent about what we are doing how we are doing it and the decisions that we are making. There is opportunity to progress and flexibility to find unique approaches to our business

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