CloudBees enables enterprises to deliver scalable, compliant, and secure software, empowering developers to do their best work.
Seamlessly integrating into any hybrid and heterogeneous environment, CloudBees is more than a tool—it's a strategic partner in your cloud transformation journey, ensuring security, compliance, and operational efficiency while enhancing the developer experience across your entire software development lifecycle. It allows developers to bring and execute their code anywhere, providing greater flexibility and freedom through fast, self-serve, and secure workflows.
CloudBees supports organizations at every step of their DevSecOps journey, whether using Jenkins on-premise or transitioning software delivery to the cloud. We’re helping customers build the future, today.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated hands-on Manager to join CloudBees SAAS Platform engineering organization. Relying on continuous feedback, you will foster adaptive design, and engineering practices, and drive programs and teams to rally around a shared technical vision that fuels solution development at CloudBees for years to come.
This position is an expert engineering manager making decisions that impact the entire CloudBees Product Suite.
What You’ll Do
Manage all operations activities for in-scope systems including design, testing, performance, development, release, monitoring
Foster agile delivery
Through balancing the stability and efficiency of the traditional organizational hierarchy with the innovative agility of the network structure found in agile teams.
Through empowering direct reports to perform their daily work as part of the network structure with decentralized decision-making.
Through eliminating institutional impediments by managing up and across the enterprise.
Implement and maintain overall engineering objectives and initiatives
Confront and solve performance and operational issues to improve development efficiency
Provide input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility
Provide leadership to enable a highly effective engineering team including
Performance appraisal and feedback
Setting goals and establishing metrics and accountability
Coaching and technical mentoring to continuously improve.
Career growth guidance/assistance
Facilitation of knowledge and expertise sharing among team members
Mediation and conflict resolution
Identifying and developing strong pitches for product features
Hire and retain the best talent for your team by managing the full lifecycle of team member development.
Role Requirements
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Demonstrated success in leading engineering management across organizations of 20 or more people in enterprise software
12+ years of software development in a technical leadership capacity
5+ years of hands-on experience in working on SaaS products
8+ years of experience building software systems that have been successfully delivered to production.
3+ years of experience with our tech stack or equivalent: GoLang (preferred)/Java/Python is a must. Kubernetes, Docker, Node (TypeScript), React / NextJS
3+ years of experience using Cassandra DB
2+ years of experience using gRPC, protobufs is a big plus
Expertise in DevOps methodologies, and containerization technologies.
Knowledge of CI/CD tools, DevOps culture, and site reliability engineering concepts.
Excellent understanding of all aspects of software development, project management, quality assurance, and customer advocacy.
Cloud certification (AWS/GCP/Azure), Agile certification is a big plus
Experience with UI & API test automation tools, particularly in Java stack (e.g. JMeter, Gatling, Selenium, Playwright, API testing)
Knowledge of SOC controls, general IT security, control frameworks, and familiarity with ISO 27000, NIST, SOX, CIS, PCI DSS, and other standards
Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from support or operations and requiring coordination with other departments
Incredible problem solving abilities and facilitation skills
Ability and willingness to grow alongside our organization by learning new technologies and languages.
Ability to work autonomously and asynchronously
Adaptable schedule to handle a distributed team
Superior written and verbal communication skills
Talent for leading through influence and inspiring high achievement