Engineering Manager

Deploy • Seattle, WA

13d

About The Position

Deploy is an intelligence infrastructure platform providing developers and enterprises access to open-source and proprietary AI models. The company operates an optimized inference engine for leading open-source large language models and offers proprietary models for content safety, AI and deepfake detection, sponsorship intelligence, and intellectual property and publicity protection. Deploy has raised more than $200 million and has over 250 employees across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Delhi.

The Engineering Manager will lead and grow an engineering team, help engineers reach their potential, and contribute to the company’s AI infrastructure vision. The role calls for experience managing engineers on large-scale infrastructure projects, contributing innovative technical ideas, and mentoring engineers. The position works closely with product management, machine learning, QA, sales, and security partners to shape roadmaps, deliver product milestones, maintain quality, and manage security and information-protection practices. The role participates in technical design and architecture and in the full product development cycle, from design through deployment.

Deploy describes itself as a group of ambitious people building an AI company, where employees can learn quickly and have a direct impact on the company’s development. The expected base salary is $160,000–$250,000; stock options may also be offered. Employees are eligible for health, vision, and dental insurance, a gym membership, and paid vacation under company policy. The company may use AI tools to support parts of recruiting, but final hiring decisions are made by humans.

Requirements

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in computer science or a similar technical field.
• At least 4 years of software engineering experience.
• At least 3 years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Familiarity with several programming languages, frameworks, and technologies; examples include Node, C++, Scala/Spark, SQL, Cassandra, and Docker.
• Ability to set a team and individual-member roadmap and goals, delegate, mentor, and deliver results.
• Desire to interview engineers, collaborate with a recruiting team, and smoothly onboard new team members.
• Experience collaborating with product managers and QA in delivering product features.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with distributed systems and large-scale application development.
• Experience managing an engineering team working on massive-scale infrastructure projects.
• Ability to contribute innovative ideas and implementations and mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Work with product management, machine learning, QA, and sales teams to build a roadmap supporting the team’s long-term vision.
• Lead a team of engineers and help them achieve their goals through mentorship.
• Participate in product technical design and architecture.
• Participate in the full development cycle, including design, development, QA, experimentation, analysis, and deployment.
• Drive delivery of product milestones, release features continually, and ensure quality metrics are achieved.
• Implement and manage security protocols, including training, code review, and best practices.
• Own and manage the risk and security of the business function in coordination with the Security Team.
• Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance and handling relevant to the role.
• Follow policies, guidelines, and procedures for protecting information assets.
• Report actual or suspected security or policy violations and breaches to an appropriate authority.
• Help with interviewing engineers, collaborating with recruiting, and onboarding new team members.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Gym membership
• Paid vacation
• Stock options may be offered; an equity grant in the form of an option to purchase stock may be provided.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager