Senior Engineering Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager based in Canada. This is a senior engineering leadership role overseeing a distributed team working across Canada, the United States, and Europe. You’ll lead teams responsible for technology that helps developers identify security vulnerabilities and software quality issues early in the development lifecycle. The role combines technical strategy, people leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration. You’ll guide the development of scalable, secure, observable systems while establishing strong engineering and quality practices. A key focus will be supporting developer tooling, code analysis, software security, and modern approaches to AI-assisted understanding of source code. You’ll also help create an environment centered on ownership, continuous learning, experimentation, reliability, and measurable improvement. This opportunity is well suited to an experienced engineering leader who enjoys developing people while remaining engaged with complex technical challenges. Accountabilities Define and drive a technical roadmap aligned with product objectives, strategically prioritizing engineering investments and adopting relevant technologies and methodologies. Lead and develop a distributed engineering organization operating across multiple countries and time zones. Facilitate communication across engineering, product, design, and other teams while identifying dependencies and resolving coordination challenges. Develop engineers and engineering managers through coaching, mentoring, performance management, clear expectations, and continuous feedback. Maintain the team's technical capabilities by encouraging learning and keeping practices aligned with industry developments. Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, reliable, and observable systems that meet business and technical requirements. Promote experimentation and telemetry-driven development to support rapid iteration and data-informed decision-making. Drive engineering excellence through automation, tooling, and standardized approaches to deployment, testing, and operations. Establish and improve reliability practices, incident response processes, service-level objectives, and post-incident reviews. Ensure postmortems result in systemic improvements rather than isolated fixes. Support thoughtful system design and dependency management across complex engineering environments. Help teams deliver high-quality developer tooling and code analysis capabilities across supported programming languages and technical ecosystems. Collaborate with stakeholders to establish shared understanding of technical direction, priorities, decisions, and progress. Requirements At least 6 years of experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline, with demonstrated experience maintaining and delivering production software. Alternatively, relevant post-secondary education combined with the required professional experience, including an associate-level qualification with 5+ years, bachelor's degree with 4+ years, master's degree with 2+ years, or a doctorate in a relevant technical field. Equivalent combinations of education and professional experience may also be considered. At least 1 year of people management or technical team management experience. Production software development experience with languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python. Experience building developer tools that work directly with source code, such as compilers, parsers, linters, static analyzers, debuggers, CLI tools, or IDE extensions, is highly valuable. Knowledge of software security, including static or dynamic analysis, software supply-chain security, and secure software development practices, is preferred. Experience applying machine learning or large language models to source-code understanding or structured data, including prompt engineering and systematic AI evaluation, is an asset. Experience working with and leading distributed teams across multiple time zones, including recruiting, retention, performance management, coaching, mentoring, and expectation setting. Strong ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and design organizations and create alignment around technical direction and priorities. Knowledge of compilers, program analysis, programming language design, or programming language implementation is beneficial. Familiarity with logic programming or database query languages such as SQL, Prolog, Datalog, or Kusto Query Language (KQL) is an advantage. Experience integrating with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins and operating user-facing software at scale. Strong understanding of availability, observability, security, reliability, and operational excellence fundamentals. Strong communication, leadership, coaching, problem-solving, and organizational skills. Benefits Remote-first opportunity for candidates working from Canada. Competitive compensation aligned with experience, qualifications, skills, and geographic location. Annual salary range of $95,000–$115,000 CAD for the Canadian market, as stated in the original posting. Flexible remote work environment designed to support employees working across different locations. Opportunities for learning, professional development, coaching, and career growth. Exposure to advanced software security, code analysis, developer tooling, and AI technologies. Opportunity to lead a distributed engineering organization working across multiple time zones. Work on technologies used by a broad global developer community. Culture emphasizing customer focus, continuous learning, ownership, collaboration, inclusion, and execution. Benefits designed to support employee well-being and flexibility. Reasonable accommodations available throughout the recruitment process for candidates who require them. How Jobgether Works We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team. We appreciate your interest and wish you the best! Why Apply Through Jobgether? 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