[Hiring] Senior Manager, Engineering @Abacus Insights

Role Description

As a Senior Manager, Engineering for DevOps, Infrastructure, and Release Engineering, you will lead teams responsible for the reliability, scalability, and safe delivery of our SaaS platforms. This role owns the end‑to‑end release lifecycle—through CI/CD, environment promotion, and production deployment—ensuring releases are repeatable, observable, auditable, and low‑risk.

You will balance senior‑level people leadership with deep technical oversight of release engineering systems, cloud infrastructure, and operational excellence. You will partner closely with Product Engineering, Quality Engineering, Security, and Operations to eliminate release friction, reduce deployment risk, and improve time‑to‑value without compromising stability or compliance.

This role is ideal for an experienced leader who has lived through failed releases, scale pain, and operational incidents—and knows how to design systems and teams that prevent them from recurring.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles
• At least 5 years managing engineering managers and/or senior technical teams
• Prior hands‑on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for SaaS platforms
• Strong experience with AWS (primary), Azure, GCP
• Deep understanding of release engineering principles, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps and SRE best practices
• Experience supporting high‑availability, distributed systems in production
• Strong track record improving reliability, deployment safety, and operational maturity
• Excellent communication, decision‑making, and stakeholder management skills

Requirements

• Must have hands-on experience in these key tools and technologies (representative, not exhaustive list):
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
• Infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• Release & Governance: Feature flags (LaunchDarkly), change management automation
• Observability: CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• Security & Compliance: SAST/DAST tools, policy-as-code, secrets management
• You hold relentlessly high bar for release quality and operational safety
• You know when to slow down to move faster later
• You can say “no” to unsafe releases—and explain why with credibility
• You lead calmly during incidents and decisively after them
• You model accountability, empathy, and engineering excellence in equal measure

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off – recharge when you need it
• Work from anywhere – flexibility to fit your life
• Comprehensive health coverage – multiple plan options to choose from
• Equity for every employee – share in our success
• Growth-focused environment – your development matters here
• Home office setup allowance – one-time support to get you started
• Monthly cell phone allowance – stay connected with ease