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This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Software Engineering Manager, Performance and Quality Frameworks based in United States.
This role leads a highly technical engineering team responsible for performance engineering and shared functional testing frameworks used across a SaaS engineering organization. You will shape the strategy, architecture, roadmap, reliability, and adoption of reusable testing capabilities that help product teams deliver scalable, high-quality software. The position combines engineering leadership with hands-on technical direction across performance, scalability, reliability, and test automation. A major focus will be using AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development, testing, maintenance, analysis, and optimization. You will partner with Product, Architecture, Quality, DevOps, Engineering, and customer-facing teams to establish strong self-service testing practices. The role offers significant scope to influence engineering productivity, technical quality, and the evolution of testing capabilities at enterprise scale.
Accountabilities
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<li>Lead the team responsible for performance engineering infrastructure and shared functional testing frameworks, establishing strategy, architecture, roadmap, reliability standards, documentation, adoption, and self-service capabilities.</li>
<li>Evaluate and improve the performance testing toolchain and shared testing frameworks, establishing measurable baselines for adoption, reliability, flakiness, test-development cycle time, coverage, and support burden.</li>
<li>Lead the adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate performance script development, functional framework development and maintenance, test creation, execution, optimization, and analysis.</li>
<li>Identify opportunities to apply AI and agentic workflows to complex engineering and testing challenges, while ensuring strong engineering judgment, validation, and human oversight of AI-generated work.</li>
<li>Develop and maintain a prioritized roadmap for framework expansion, reliability, documentation, self-service, and technical debt reduction.</li>
<li>Partner with Product Managers, Designers, Architects, Quality, DevOps, Product Engineering, and Customer Facing teams to understand business and product needs and establish effective testing strategies.</li>
<li>Build strong relationships with product engineering teams to encourage self-service adoption of shared frameworks and secure appropriate investment in load, stress, performance, and end-to-end testing.</li>
<li>Ensure a clear division of responsibilities between shared testing framework ownership and product-team ownership of feature-specific tests.</li>
<li>Use quantitative evidence, including adoption, reliability, flakiness, development cycle time, coverage, support burden, and AI-generated insights, to measure impact and guide engineering priorities.</li>
<li>Lead, mentor, and develop engineers, creating an environment focused on continuous learning, technical excellence, innovation, and effective collaboration.</li>
<li>Ensure the team balances delivery of new capabilities with defect resolution, reliability improvements, and sustainable technical development.</li>
<li>Establish a forward-looking strategy for scaling engineering and shared testing capabilities over a two- to three-year horizon.</li>
<li>Build and maintain technical documentation that is accessible to engineers while also being structured for effective consumption by modern AI and large language model systems.</li>
<li>Attract and retain engineers who are motivated by high-performance software, testing platforms, and AI-assisted engineering.</li>
</ul>
Requirements
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<li>At least 2 years of experience in an engineering leadership role and 8+ years of hands-on experience as a performance engineer or software engineer.</li>
<li>Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.</li>
<li>Proven experience architecting, expanding, and maintaining shared functional testing frameworks, libraries, or services used by multiple product teams.</li>
<li>Demonstrated experience architecting, developing, and supporting highly distributed, scalable, and highly available systems in a public cloud environment, preferably AWS.</li>
<li>Deep knowledge of microservice architectures, containerized CI/CD environments, Docker, Kubernetes, and agile development methodologies.</li>
<li>Proven hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code, including using them to write, debug, maintain, and optimize complex software.</li>
<li>Ability to select appropriate AI models and agents for specific engineering problems and measure their impact on engineering productivity, test coverage, and development cycle time.</li>
<li>Strong understanding of performance engineering, high-load SaaS systems, scalable software architecture, reliable functional testing infrastructure, and principles of performant and testable design.</li>
<li>Experience using quantitative evidence to identify priorities and optimize engineering processes, including framework adoption, reliability, flakiness, test-development cycle time, coverage, and support burden.</li>
<li>Strong technical documentation and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both engineering and cross-functional audiences.</li>
<li>Effective leadership, mentoring, project management, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across teams.</li>
<li>Comfort using AI development tools as a core part of daily engineering workflows, including prompting, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop review of AI-generated code.</li>
<li>Experience with Python-based AI/ML frameworks and libraries such as scikit-learn, pandas, and NumPy is relevant, along with exposure to deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and LLM or foundation-model platforms such as Bedrock or Vertex AI.</li>
<li>Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and decision-making abilities, with a focus on measurable business and engineering outcomes.</li>
<li>Must be a U.S. citizen due to FedRAMP requirements.</li>
<li>Ability to interview in person as required.</li>
<li>Ability to work in a remote U.S.-based role.</li>
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Benefits
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<li>Remote-first position based in the United States.</li>
<li>Base salary range of $140,500–$236,826 USD, with compensation determined based on factors including knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions, location, and internal equity.</li>
<li>Potential eligibility for a corporate bonus plan and/or equity participation, depending on role and applicable programs.</li>
<li>Medical, dental, and vision insurance.</li>
<li>Short-term and long-term disability coverage.</li>
<li>Life insurance and Accidental Death &amp; Dismemberment (AD&amp;D) coverage.</li>
<li>Supplemental life insurance options for employees, spouses, and children.</li>
<li>Flexible Spending Accounts, including healthcare and dependent care options.</li>
<li>Health Savings Account with employer contribution.</li>
<li>401(k) savings and investment plan with company matching.</li>
<li>Flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and sick leave.</li>
<li>Paid parental leave.</li>
<li>Employee Assistance Program and care counseling resources.</li>
<li>Voluntary benefits including legal assistance, critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, and pet insurance.</li>
<li>Career growth opportunities and a collaborative, inclusive work environment.</li>
<li>Reasonable accommodations available for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities.</li>
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How Jobgether Works
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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.
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Software Engineering Manager, Performance and Quality Frameworks

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