Senior Manager, Software Engineering - AI Developer Productivity (Dev Agents and SRE AI)

About the role

Dev Agents and SRE AI

• Dev Agents builds in-house capabilities and integrates vendors such as Claude and Codex, including an Agent Gateway for internal MCPs, managed skills access, and cloud runners.
• SRE AI performs first-line on-call work on production incidents, including writing root cause analyses, escalating severity when supported by evidence, and rolling back identified deployments.
• Lead both efforts, set direction and experiments for agent infrastructure, and make build, integrate, or buy decisions.
• Reduce cost per pull request while increasing output, and scale SRE AI from two teams toward use by every team.
• Work directly with R&D leaders and tool users, and manage, hire, and develop a team of five to ten senior engineers.
• Within three months, establish an end-to-end system for campaign-style agent work, such as backfilling tests and fixing recurring logging problems.

Minimum requirements

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience and at least 5 years of people management experience.
• Experience leading approximately six to ten engineers, including senior- and staff-level engineers.
• Has built something with current AI tools or agents, at work or at home.
• Has set direction without an existing playbook or product manager.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or another technical field.

Ideal candidate

• A methodical, systems-level approach to choosing experiments for unsolved problems.
• Relevant background in developer productivity, agentic AI, incident response, or on-call tooling is advantageous.
• Follows and applies work from industry leaders.
• Can reason about token spend and infrastructure costs as models and prices change.
• A master’s or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field is advantageous.

Role impact and challenges

Compensation

• Annual base salary range is CAD 154,800–212,850, with the applicable range depending on primary work location.
• The role is eligible for an initial RSU grant and ongoing performance-linked refresh opportunities, subject to plan terms.
• Total compensation may include base salary, performance-based bonus or variable pay, and equity for eligible roles.

Total rewards

• Benefits include a professional development stipend, health and parental leave plans, and a flexible employee-led remote model.

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