Engineering Manager

SafetyCulture

Engineering Manager at SafetyCulture leading engineers to enhance the Inspections product. Managing technical health and fostering a productive team environment in a global tech company.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeSydney • 🇦🇺 AustraliaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the day-to-day delivery of your engineering team: run planning, refinement, and sprint rhythms that keep work predictable and the team focused
Lead and develop a team of engineers through regular one-on-ones, career conversations, and coaching — creating an environment where people do their best work
Maintain and improve the technical health of the codebase, making pragmatic calls on legacy debt versus new investment based on real customer and business impact
Triage customer-reported issues and production incidents with a clear eye on ROI — distinguishing problems that need fixing from noise that doesn't
Contribute to technical direction, keeping yourself close enough to the work to be a credible and useful partner to your engineers as well as the product and design leadership triad
Spot process friction and fix it — whether that's in how the team plans, how bugs are triaged, or how engineers collaborate — without waiting to be asked
Build relationships beyond your immediate team, partnering with engineers, product managers, designers, and customer-facing functions across the business

Requirements

What you’ll need

Recent background as a software engineer, with experience working across complex, large-scale SaaS products
Comfortable navigating and leading work in legacy codebases: able to assess technical debt pragmatically, avoid unnecessary rewrites, and align technical priorities to product strategy
Able to contribute to technical direction, participate meaningfully in architectural discussions, and review code — you don't need to be shipping features, but your engineers should trust your technical judgement
Experienced in scoping and estimating complex features in partnership with Product, including feasibility trade-offs and high-level effort sizing
Understands what good looks like in a high-scale SaaS environment: endpoint performance, data integrity, release safety, and the operational discipline that keeps large customer workloads running well
Genuinely interested in people leadership — you see coaching, career development, and team health as core to the job, not a distraction from the technical work
Self-directed and proactive: you notice what's not working and improve it without needing someone to point it out first
Pragmatic decision-maker: you weigh trade-offs clearly, move on reversible decisions quickly, and don't let perfect get in the way of better
Strong communicator — able to give direct, useful feedback to engineers and have honest conversations with your manager and peers about what's going well and what isn't
Team-oriented and relationship-driven: you invest in the people around you and build trust across teams, not just within your own
Actively uses AI tools as part of day-to-day work; someone who hasn't yet integrated AI tools into their workflow won't thrive here
Able to evaluate AI-generated code for quality and appropriateness, and has a view on where AI accelerates engineering work versus where human judgement is still essential
Curious about how AI tooling is evolving and willing to experiment with new approaches that improve team productivity and developer experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity with high growth potential, and a competitive salary
Flexible working arrangements
Access to professional and personal training and development opportunities
Hackathons, Workshops, Lunch & Learns
In-house Culinary Crew serving up daily breakfast, lunch and snacks
Barista coffee machine, craft beer on tap, boutique wines and a range of non-alcoholic beverages
Wellbeing initiatives such as subsidised fitness programs, EAP services and generous parental leave policy
Quarterly celebrations and team events
On-site gym, table tennis, board games, books library, and pet-friendly offices

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringSaaS productslegacy codebasestechnical debt assessmentarchitectural discussionscode reviewfeature scopingendpoint performancedata integrityrelease safety

Soft Skills

people leadershipcoachingcareer developmentself-directedproactivepragmatic decision-makingstrong communicationteam-orientedrelationship-driventrust building