Manager, Engineering - Tooling

Sprout Social
Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario
Workplace: RemoteFull timeCAD 170,600 - 213,300 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Cross-functional collaboration","Automation mindset","Data-driven improvement"]

Lead Sprout’s Tooling Engineering team to improve developer productivity across the company. You’ll manage an SRE team responsible for continuous delivery, CI/CD platforms, deployment automation, release workflows, engineering observability, and internal developer tools. Partner with Product Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security to reduce friction, modernize pipelines, and drive measurable gains using DORA and engineering health indicators. Enable adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows and autonomous development tooling.

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Manager, Engineering - Tooling

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Job Summary

Lead Sprout’s Tooling Engineering team to improve developer productivity across the company. You’ll manage an SRE team responsible for continuous delivery, CI/CD platforms, deployment automation, release workflows, engineering observability, and internal developer tools. Partner with Product Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security to reduce friction, modernize pipelines, and drive measurable gains using DORA and engineering health indicators. Enable adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows and autonomous development tooling.
Location: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead, coach, and develop a team of SREs focused on developer experience and engineering productivity.
  • •Define the long-term vision for developer tooling and engineering productivity improvements.
  • •Drive evolution and modernization of continuous delivery platforms, deployment automation, and release workflows.
  • •Partner with Infrastructure and Security to build secure-by-default engineering workflows and internal platforms.
  • •Establish metrics using DORA/engineering health indicators and help teams safely adopt new deployment and tooling capabilities.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 170,600 - 213,300 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife InsuranceDisabilityPaid LeaveSick DaysHome OfficeInternet StipendChildcareEldercare

Key Requirements

  • •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.
  • •Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems and modern software delivery pipelines.
  • •Experience with cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes and AWS, plus improving productivity through automation.
Experience:SREDeveloper experienceCI/CDPlatform engineering
Skills:LeadershipCoachingCross-functional collaborationAutomation mindsetData-driven improvement
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KubernetesAWSGitHub ActionsJenkinsCI/CDContinuous DeliveryDeployment automationRelease automationDatadogPagerDutySentryGrafanaOpenTelemetryDORA metrics

Company Brief

Sprout Social
Provides a social media management platform that helps businesses manage engagement, publishing, analytics, and social customer care across channels to improve brand presence and customer relationships.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Chicago, United States
Founded: 2010
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