Senior Engineering Manager, SDKs

4 hours, 28 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
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Slack

Slack provides a collaborative platform that integrates real-time messaging, project management, and AI tools to enhance productivity and streamline communication within teams.

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2009
$1200M raised

Description

  • Lead and develop a senior engineering team through coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development.
  • Own prioritization and intake across the SDK portfolio and Relay Proxy, balancing features, maintenance, security, and customer escalations.
  • Partner with Product Management to define and deliver SDK and Relay Proxy roadmaps, including version support and deprecation policies.
  • Guide technical tradeoffs across languages and platforms to maintain idiomatic, performant, and resilient SDKs.
  • Represent SDK Engineering with customers, Support, Solutions, Sales, and engineering leadership.
  • Drive release quality, observability, and incident response for SDKs and the Relay Proxy.
  • Establish team norms that improve collaboration, reduce silos, and strengthen knowledge sharing.
  • Participate in hiring and help raise the engineering bar.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of formal engineering management experience, including management of senior engineers.
  • Experience leading teams that build developer-facing software such as SDKs, client libraries, public APIs, or externally used open-source projects.
  • Working familiarity with multiple programming languages and ecosystems in a polyglot codebase.
  • Experience prioritizing across stakeholders and partnering with Product Management to create engineering plans and reliable estimates.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach and develop senior engineers through performance management, career planning, and technical mentorship.
  • Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including customers.
  • Familiarity with observability practices and production incident response.
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source software is preferred.

Benefits

  • Target base salary of $204,500–$330,700 depending on U.S. geographic zone, skills, experience, and location.
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance.
  • Mental health benefits.
  • Equal opportunity workplace with disability accommodations available.

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