Manager, Engineering - Tooling

Sprout Social

4d•$186,800 - $308,300•Remote

About The Position

Sprout Social is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Tooling team. At Sprout, we believe great engineering organizations are built on exceptional developer experience. Our Tooling team creates the platforms, automation, and workflows that enable hundreds of engineers to build, test, deploy, and operate software safely and efficiently. As the Engineering Manager for Tooling, you’ll lead a team responsible for improving developer productivity across the company. From modern Continuous Delivery and CI/CD platforms to AI-powered developer workflows, engineering observability, release automation, and internal developer tooling, your team’s work directly impacts every engineer at Sprout. Work closely with Product Engineering teams to understand pain points and prioritize improvements that meaningfully increase developer velocity. You’ll partner closely with engineering leaders across Infrastructure and Product Engineering to reduce friction, improve reliability, and enable teams to ship software faster with confidence.

Requirements

3-5+ years managing software engineering teams
7+ years building and operating production software systems
Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple engineering organizations
Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems and modern software delivery pipelines
Experience with cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes and AWS
Experience improving engineering productivity through automation

Nice To Haves

Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD platforms
Experience leading Developer Experience or Platform Engineering teams
Experience with deployment orchestration and release automation
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and platform automation
Experience implementing software delivery metrics such as DORA
Experience evaluating or implementing AI assisted software development workflows
Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
Experience supporting internal engineering platforms used across large engineering organizations

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a team of SRE’s focused on Developer Experience and Engineering Productivity.
Partner with Engineering leadership to define the long-term vision for developer tooling across Sprout.
Drive the evolution of our Continuous Delivery platform, deployment automation, and release workflows.
Lead modernization efforts across our CI/CD ecosystem.
Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to build secure-by-default engineering workflows.
Guide technical direction for internal platforms supporting software development, deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence.
Foster engineering best practices around automation, reliability, testing, and operational maturity.
Help teams improve software delivery performance using DORA metrics and engineering health indicators.
Enable adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows and autonomous development tooling.
Work closely with Product Engineering teams to understand pain points and prioritize improvements that meaningfully increase developer velocity.
Support strategic infrastructure initiatives including deployment platforms, release management, engineering observability, source control automation, and internal developer portals.
Build an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement.

Benefits

Premium BCBSIL medical, dental (high/low plans), and vision (Eyemed) insurance for you and your eligible dependents.
Full, free access to Modern Health for you and your dependents, including coaching, therapy sessions, and digital wellness resources.
401(k) plan with a 50% company match on your first 6% of contributions (a 3% total match).
100% employer-paid Life and Disability insurance for your peace of mind.
A flexible PTO policy, supplemented with additional company-wide Rest & Recharge days throughout the year.
Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents to support you in expanding your family.
A $1,000 USD annual Lifestyle Spending Account to spend on your physical, mental, and financial well-being.
A one-time $550 USD stipend to set up your home office, plus a monthly $50 USD stipend for internet.
16 hours of paid volunteer time annually, plus a $100 annual match for your charitable donations.
Access to pre-tax commuter benefits, subsidized child/eldercare (Care.com), discounted pet insurance (Figo), and no-cost personalized financial wellness support through Your Money Line.