Manager, Engineering - Tooling

Sprout Social
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 186,800 - 233,500 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Collaboration","Coaching","Technical leadership","Strategic planning","Continuous improvement"]

Lead Sprout’s Tooling engineering efforts focused on developer experience and productivity. Manage a team of SREs to evolve Continuous Delivery, CI/CD, deployment automation, release workflows, and secure-by-default engineering practices. Partner with Product Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security to reduce friction, improve reliability, and measure delivery performance using DORA and engineering health indicators. Drive modernization across platforms, observability integrations, and AI-assisted developer workflows.

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Sprout Social
Sprout Social
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Manager, Engineering - Tooling

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Job Summary

Lead Sprout’s Tooling engineering efforts focused on developer experience and productivity. Manage a team of SREs to evolve Continuous Delivery, CI/CD, deployment automation, release workflows, and secure-by-default engineering practices. Partner with Product Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security to reduce friction, improve reliability, and measure delivery performance using DORA and engineering health indicators. Drive modernization across platforms, observability integrations, and AI-assisted developer workflows.
Location: United States
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 partner with Engineering leadership to prioritize improvements.
  • •Drive evolution and modernization of the Continuous Delivery platform, deployment automation, and release workflows across the CI/CD ecosystem.
  • •Partner with Infrastructure and Security to build secure-by-default engineering workflows and internal platforms supporting development, deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence.
  • •Use engineering health indicators and DORA metrics to measure and improve deployment performance, reliability, and delivery speed, including adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 186,800 - 233,500 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kLife InsuranceDisability InsurancePaid LeaveParental LeaveLifestyle StipendRemote WorkVolunteer TimePet Insurance

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 improving engineering productivity through automation (cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes and AWS).
Skills:CollaborationCoachingTechnical leadershipStrategic planningContinuous improvement
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KubernetesAWSCI/CDContinuous DeliveryGitHub ActionsJenkinsDatadogPagerDutyDORA metricsSentryGrafanaOpenTelemetryInfrastructure-as-Code

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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