Engineering Manager, Infrastructure / Platform
Remote • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 5mo ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Infrastructure Engineer
About the job
Speak is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Platform & Infrastructure team. This role is pivotal during a transformative period in software development, focusing on agentic shifts. The team's mission is to empower all engineering teams at Speak by providing robust, self-serve infrastructure, sensible guardrails, and expert guidance. This ensures rapid, high-quality feature delivery while maintaining a state-of-the-art customer experience, impacting everything from application performance and reliability to developer productivity and security. The Engineering Manager will be a key driver in evolving towards agentic engineering, enabling autonomous, high-quality work through the systems and environments the team builds.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of engineers, setting strong output and productivity expectations.
- Contribute technically through coaching, leadership, and direct contributions like shipping projects and improving agent environments.
- Drive the team's agentic engineering transformation by identifying manual processes and closing gaps.
- Set the pace and drive velocity while maintaining a high quality bar.
- Collaborate effectively with Product, Design, and other functions.
- Proactively advocate for changes in shared infrastructure, tooling, and systems to enhance agentic capabilities across the organization.
- Build and maintain a healthy, high-performing team culture.
Requirements
- 8+ years of individual contributor software engineering experience on fast-paced, high-performance teams.
- 4+ years of direct team management experience.
- Strong background in backend, systems, platform/infrastructure, or performance engineering.
- Deeply technical and proficient in using coding agents for development.
- High agency and low ego.
- Strong belief in the potential of agentic tools to increase engineering output.
- Proven ability to drive velocity, uphold quality standards, and provide direct performance feedback.
- Excited about working in-person in San Francisco 3-4 days per week.
Benefits
- Opportunity to join a fast-growing company at a pivotal moment.
- Work with a dedicated team focused on craft and daily growth.
- Global exposure with offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei.
- Opportunity to impact millions of language learners.
- Travel opportunities.