Software Engineering Manager (Agentic Engineering, US Eastern)
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Summary
Leads a team of engineers building Coder's agentic development experience, setting technical direction across agent harness, integrations, and workflows while staying close to code. Works with Go, Postgres, TypeScript, React, AWS, and Kubernetes to make AI coding agents more capable and reliable.
- As an Engineering Manager on Coder’s Agentic Engineering team, you’ll lead engineers building and evolving the systems behind our agentic development experience. You’ll help make agents more capable, reliable, and useful across real development environments
- You’ll guide technical direction, grow the team, and keep execution sharp. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, and Design across the agent harness, integrations, and developer workflows
- Lead and grow a team within our Agentic Engineering organization
- Set technical direction across the agent harness, integrations, and workflows
- Stay close to the code and contribute to architecture and implementation decisions
- Evolve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long-running workflows
- Extend our provider-agnostic architecture as models and capabilities change
- Partner with Product and Design to turn agent capabilities into useful developer experiences
- Improve reliability, performance, and operability across agentic systems
- Coach engineers, raise the technical bar, and create clarity around priorities and tradeoffs
- Our tech stack:
- Backend: Go, Postgres
- Frontend: TypeScript, React
- Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions
- Coder’s agentic architecture is provider-agnostic. The foundation is built; this team is focused on making it more capable, reliable, and extensible as the space evolves
Benefits
- Generous medical / dental / vision coverage
- 4% 401(k) match
- Flexible time off
- Fertility benefits through Carrot Fertility and generous parental leave
- Paid sabbatical after 5 years
- Remote work from anywhere, or join our Austin or San Francisco offices
- Monthly “perks” stipend for wellness, learning and development, travel, etc
- Annual workstation allowance for your home office
- Strong hands-on engineering experience with Go
- Hands-on experience building systems around LLMs and agentic workflows
- Experience with React and TypeScript
- A track record of helping engineers grow while maintaining a high execution bar
- Experience with model APIs, tool calling, context management, or agent loops
- Experience managing and growing software engineering teams
- Strong distributed systems knowledge
- Working knowledge of AWS
- Strong technical judgment and comfort working through ambiguity
- (Tacos? If you need an ice-breaker, ask how we say thanks by giving tacos!)
- Experience building coding agents, developer tools, or cloud development environments
- Experience with MCP, agent tools, or multi-agent systems
- Experience with remote execution, sandboxing, or isolated compute
- Experience building abstractions across multiple model providers
- Deep experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, or Linux
- Open-source contributions or experience working directly with customers
- We believe that the interview process should be transparent, consistent, and enjoyable. We value your time and hope to complete the interview process in two to four weeks, if schedules allow
- Through your interviews, you will meet a mix of individual contributors, managers, and senior leaders
- As an AI company, Coder embraces the use of AI tools, and we want to be transparent about our expectations as you navigate our interview process:
- Not permitted: Using AI assistance during conversational interviews
- Permitted: Using AI tooling for take-home assessments. Please flag where and to what extent it was used in your take-home. Your submission will not be penalized for using AI as long as it is done honestly
