Software Engineering Manager (Core Workspaces)
Coder · Remote · United States · Canada ·
COMPENSATION
$199k – $270k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote
- Engineering Manager
- Go + TypeScript
- LLM & Agent systems
- AWS + Kubernetes
As an Engineering Manager on the Core Workspaces team, you will lead the development of systems behind Coder's agentic development experience. You will guide technical strategy for agent execution, tool use, and context management while coaching engineers and collaborating with Product and Design teams.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow a team within the Workspaces organization
- Set technical direction for agent harness, integrations, and workflows
- Contribute to architecture decisions and stay close to the code
- Evolve agent execution, streaming, and long-running workflows
- Partner with Product and Design to enhance developer experiences
- Improve reliability, performance, and operability of agentic systems
- Coach engineers and clarify priorities and tradeoffs
What you'll need
- Experience managing and growing software engineering teams
- Strong hands-on engineering experience with React and TypeScript
- Professional experience with Go
- Experience building systems around LLMs and agentic workflows
- Knowledge of model APIs, tool calling, or agent loops
- Strong distributed systems knowledge
- Working knowledge of AWS
- Ability to work through ambiguity with strong technical judgment
Nice to have
- Experience building coding agents or cloud development environments
- Familiarity with MCP, agent tools, or multi-agent systems
- Experience with remote execution, sandboxing, or isolated compute
- Deep experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, or Linux
- Open-source contributions or direct customer interaction experience
Stack
- Go
- Postgres
- TypeScript
- React
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- GitHub Actions
Hiring process
- Process typically takes two to four weeks
- Interviews include individual contributors, managers, and leaders
- AI assistance is permitted for take-home assessments if disclosed
- AI use is not permitted during conversational interviews
- Hiring decisions are made by humans after reviewing applications