Senior Engineering Manager

Halcyon

Senior Engineering Manager leading Cloud Engineering teams at Halcyon to foster sustainable growth and engineering excellence. Collaborating with product managers and engineers to create a high-autonomy team culture.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $190,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and support one or more Cloud Engineering teams.
Foster a culture of psychological safety, autonomy, and accountability.
Actively mentor engineers and emerging leaders to grow their impact and effectiveness.
Partner with leaders across the organization to drive infrastructure strategy, CI/CD improvements, observability practices, and operational maturity.
Collaborate closely with product, QA, and agility partners to align on priorities, delivery, and scope.
Own operational health of your teams: on-call rotations, velocity tracking, and continuous improvement.
Step in to unblock teams, remove organizational friction, and help create momentum.
Maintain deep context on what your team is building and why, offering strategic perspective without micromanaging.
Occasionally dip into the codebase to review pull requests, understand implementation details, and provide relevant technical feedback.
Support a strong culture of engineering rigor, ensuring teams build with quality, observability, security, and performance in mind.
Partner with engineers and technical leads to shape architectural direction and maintain high technical standards.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience leading multiple engineering teams, preferably in fast-paced, high-growth SaaS
Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and DevOps practices, including AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling.
Track record of creating strong team culture, high trust, and psychological safety.
Effective coach with experience guiding engineers, peers, and upward into executive leadership.
Solid understanding of modern software development practices, including infrastructure, observability, and reliability.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity, scaling challenges, and cross-functional alignment.
Excellent communicator who leads with clarity, empathy, and pragmatism.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.
Medical and dependent care FSA options.
401k plan with a generous employer contribution.
Flexible PTO policy.
Parental leave.
Generous equity offerings.

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud-native architectureDevOps practicesAWSTerraformKubernetesCI/CD toolingsoftware development practicesobservabilityreliability

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringpsychological safetycoachingcommunicationclarityempathypragmatismcollaborationproblem-solving