Engineering Manager

Overview

As Engineering Manager at Cloudsmith, you lead one or more teams delivering the core platform for artifact records, policy control, and package delivery. You operate with senior-level technical depth, shaping architecture with Principal Engineers and cross-functional partners. You will own delivery from discovery through operation, balancing customer value with reliability and security. This role offers impact at scale in a fast-growing, AI-informed software factory. You’ll help build the operating system for the modern software supply chain, with a focus on governance, provenance, and performance.

Pay / Benefits

• health, dental, and vision insurance
• equity in compensation
• generous annual leave
• flexible working policies
• professional development budget (conferences/training)
• Belfast HQ for events and planning

Responsibilities

• Lead teams building systems for artifact record, policy control, and package delivery
• Shape technical direction with Principal Engineers, Product, Design, and Security
• Challenge weak designs, ownership gaps, coupling, and complexity
• Raise the bar on design review, planning, operational readiness, and incident learning
• Balance customer value, delivery speed, architecture, and reliability
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers; build high-trust teams with clear ownership
• Own delivery from discovery to release and operation
• Break ambiguity into milestones, risks, and trade-offs
• Right-size processes for better predictability without overhead
• Keep customer impact, reliability, and trust visible in decisions
• Ensure software is secure, observable, performant, and maintainable

Key requirements

• Significant experience as Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Staff, Principal Engineer, or equivalent
• Strong background in backend/platform/infrastructure/distributed systems/cloud-native SaaS or security infrastructure
• Experience designing/operating high-throughput production systems with databases
• Strong debugging and performance instincts for bottlenecks, queues, caches, and incidents
• Comfort with API design, data modeling, async processing, relational databases, analytics stores, and object storage
• Ability to read production code and challenge technical decisions
• Experience with AWS, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability
• Familiarity with Python, Django, Postgres, ClickHouse, AWS stack, Terraform, React, Next.js; Kafka/Kinesis/Flink/CDC pipelines (desirable)
• Experience with package registries, artifact storage, CDNs, edge delivery, and high-volume HTTP systems (desirable)
• Security mindset around trust boundaries, policy enforcement, provenance, authentication/authorization, tokens, and secrets
• Experience in devtools, DevOps, CI/CD, artifact management, platform engineering, or enterprise SaaS
• Strong communication in remote-first environments; good product sense

• Technical humility
• Builder mindset
• High standards with low ego
• Backend and distributed systems
• Cloud-native infrastructure
• AWS, containers, CI/CD, IaC, observability

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