Sprout Social
Manager, Engineering - Tooling
Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.
Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Found 7h ago
Been open since 3 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
$171k to $213k per year
Location
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
Stated by the employer in the job description
Remote flexibility
Region Restricted
Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in Canada, United States.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote Canada, Remote - Canada, Remote - US"
- Job description states: "must be based in either Alberta"
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- Timezone overlap with the listed area is often expected
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About the role
Description
Sprout Social is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Tooling team.
Why join Sprout’s Engineering team?
At Sprout, we believe great engineering organizations are built on exceptional developer experience. Our Tooling team creates the platforms, automation, and workflows that enable hundreds of engineers to build, test, deploy, and operate software safely and efficiently.
As the Engineering Manager for Tooling, you’ll lead a team responsible for improving developer productivity across the company. From modern Continuous Delivery and CI/CD platforms to AI-powered developer workflows, engineering observability, release automation, and internal developer tooling, your team’s work directly impacts every engineer at Sprout.
Work closely with Product Engineering teams to understand pain points and prioritize improvements that meaningfully increase developer velocity.
You’ll partner closely with engineering leaders across Infrastructure and Product Engineering to reduce friction, improve reliability, and enable teams to ship software faster with confidence.
What you’ll do
Lead, coach, and develop a team of SRE’s focused on Developer Experience and Engineering Productivity.
Partner with Engineering leadership to define the long-term vision for developer tooling across Sprout.
Drive the evolution of our Continuous Delivery platform, deployment automation, and release workflows.
Lead modernization efforts across our CI/CD ecosystem.
Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to build secure-by-default engineering workflows.
Guide technical direction for internal platforms supporting software development, deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence.
Foster engineering best practices around automation, reliability, testing, and operational maturity.
Help teams improve software delivery performance using DORA metrics and engineering health indicators.
Enable adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows and autonomous development tooling.
Work closely with Product Engineering teams to understand pain points and prioritize improvements that meaningfully increase developer velocity.
Support strategic infrastructure initiatives including deployment platforms, release management, engineering observability, source control automation, and internal developer portals.
Build an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement.
Areas owned by the Tooling team
Examples of platforms and technologies owned or supported include:
Continuous Delivery platform
GitHub Actions
Requirements
- ·We’re looking for a collaborative engineering leader who enjoys solving large scale engineering productivity challenges.
- ·Minimum qualifications
- ·3-5+ years managing software engineering teams
- ·7+ years building and operating production software systems
- ·Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple engineering organizations
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Sprout Social, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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