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Role Description

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team building customer-facing features across Runpod’s console, APIs, and developer workflows. You’ll take ownership of a roadmap area end-to-end - partnering with Product and Design to shape scope, then guiding your team through architecture, execution, quality, and launch.

This role is ideal for a leader who’s shipped at millions-of-users scale, thrives in fast-moving environments, and can go deep technically in Linux systems internals and/or cloud systems engineering.

• Own Feature Delivery for a Product Area: Lead a team of engineers responsible for shipping new functionality and iterating existing product surfaces. Deliver predictable, high-velocity outcomes that improve customer experience and business value.
• Plan and Execute Roadmaps: Translate product strategy into clear technical plans, milestones, and success metrics. Identify tradeoffs early and manage scope, risk, and timelines.
• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Drive pragmatic system design for product-layer services and workflows, ensuring scalability, performance, and consistency with Runpod’s platform.
• Build and Grow a Strong Team: Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; set expectations, provide feedback, and create a culture of ownership, speed, and craft in a remote-first environment.
• Quality & Reliability for Product Surfaces: Improve automated testing, release safety, observability for customer-facing systems, and regression prevention. Ensure on-call health for your team’s services.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner tightly with Product, Program management, Support, GTM, and Infrastructure counterparts. Coordinate dependencies cleanly while maintaining clear ownership.
• Operational Excellence: Establish team rituals and delivery systems (sprints/kanban, retros, design reviews). Use data to improve cycle time, throughput, and feature adoption.
• Customer-Driven Execution: Stay close to user needs by incorporating feedback, analytics, and support signals into prioritization and iteration.

Qualifications

• 2+ years managing a team of high performance software engineers, including ownership of roadmap delivery, hiring/firing, performance, and team culture.
• 6+ years as a software engineer building and shipping products used by millions of users, with clear evidence of personal impact.
• Strong experience with Linux systems internals and/or cloud systems engineering - ideally building platform capabilities (orchestration, control planes, distributed services, networking or storage layers).
• Comfortable reviewing and contributing to code in modern stacks; Go, Python, and/or TypeScript experience preferred.
• Solid understanding of microservices, APIs, eventing, data stores, and service-to-service communication patterns.
• Experience running execution processes and using metrics like cycle time, throughput, adoption, and escape defects to improve team flow.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly, align stakeholders asynchronously, and sustain momentum across time zones.
• Successful completion of a background check.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI/ML + developer platforms, workflow-heavy products, or infrastructure-adjacent product layers (e.g., job orchestration UX, deployment flows, usage/billing, observability surfaces).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes-based platforms, container runtimes, scheduling concepts, or GPU/accelerator workflows.
• Track record of scaling teams in high-growth environments while keeping quality high.
• Open-source contributions in cloud-native, systems, or ML-adjacent projects.

Benefits

• The competitive base pay for this position ranges from ($175,000 - $250,000). This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Runpod and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location.
• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company - everyone on the team receives stock options — your impact drives our growth, and you share in the upside.
• Generous medical, dental & vision plans — we cover 100% for all employees and partial for dependents.
• Flexible PTO - take the time you need to recharge.
• Most roles are remote work first with an inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing slack as the main form of internal communication.
• Join a passionate team on the cutting edge of AI infrastructure — where culture, learning, and ownership are at the heart of how we scale.
• $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend - We set you up for success from day one with gear and support to create your ideal workspace.