Senior Software Engineering Manager, Core Cloud Compute

Rescale

Senior Software Engineering Manager leading engineering team on core cloud computing orchestration engine. Fostering AI-assisted software development and driving product delivery alignment across teams.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Developing technical excellence and leadership among the members of a high-performing engineering team.
Fostering effective use of AI-assisted software development across your team — from code agents and AI-augmented code review to automated operational tooling — and contribute to org-wide standards for how we integrate AI into the SDLC.
Scaling and extending Rescale's core job orchestration engine, leveraging VM and Kubernetes-based compute for large scale engineering simulations, across multiple public cloud providers.
Maintaining high operational expectations on core product — driving incident response, SLO discipline, and reduction of toil and incident load.
Driving alignment across EPD (Engineering, Product and Design) and with customer-facing teams (Support, Solutions, Sales) on product delivery and technical architecture.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years experience managing high-performing Software Engineering teams of 3–10 people, including senior and staff ICs.
Technically proficient as an IC, at least to Senior Engineer level, with demonstrated depth in scalable distributed systems.
Hands-on experience using AI tools in the SDLC as well as driving AI adoption on a team previously in a sustainable manner.
Production experience with at least one major cloud (AWS or Azure) at scale and familiarity with managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS).
Led the delivery of, at least one multi-quarter architectural change with quantifiable impact in the past.
Experience managing a SaaS system powering a complex backend product, with meaningful on-call ownership, incident command, and SLO discipline.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI-assisted software developmentscalable distributed systemscloud computingKubernetesincident responseSLO disciplinesoftware development lifecycle (SDLC)job orchestration enginebackend developmentarchitectural change

Soft Skills

leadershipteam managementeffective communicationalignmentcollaborationincident commanddriving adoptiontechnical architectureoperational excellencefostering teamwork