Software Engineering Manager - Vehicle Data Platform

Role overview

Work arrangement

• Hybrid arrangement requiring attendance at the Markham or Oshawa office at least three times per week.

Team and technical leadership

• Hire, develop, and manage software engineers, including goals, feedback, performance, and career growth.
• Own software planning through release and field support; set technical direction and make architecture and design decisions.
• Participate in design, code and test-case reviews, and prototyping as needed.
• Mentor engineers and develop technical leads.

Engineering delivery and operations

• Maintain reliability, performance, data privacy, and resource-use standards for software on production ECUs.
• Scale unit and integration testing, development-process documentation, and release criteria.
• Define roadmaps with application teams and stakeholders based on their needs and fleet data requirements.
• Partner with platform, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, and privacy teams on software rollout, integration, and adoption.
• Define production health metrics, lead incident response, and drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Report status, risks, and tradeoffs to leadership and partner teams.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least six years of software development or systems engineering experience across Android, Linux, and/or QNX.
• At least two years managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Proficiency in C, C++, and/or Java/Kotlin for Android, with platform-level integration experience.
• Experience delivering software on production ECUs or other devices with limited resources.
• Experience in at least one listed area: control-plane or fleet-management software, data pipelines, logging or telemetry, or SDKs and libraries.
• Experience designing fleet-scale telemetry and scaling data flows from ECU to cloud.
• Track record delivering critical software with reliability, performance, and data-privacy requirements.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across teams; technical communication and design-documentation skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Preferred experience includes building a team; delivering SDKs or libraries; control-plane or data-plane integration; fleet management, OTA, or remote configuration; and observability or logging.
• Knowledge of automotive cybersecurity and data protection, familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure device-management services, and exposure to OpenTelemetry, protobuf, gRPC, or Fluent Bit are preferred.
• Automotive domain familiarity, including ECU architectures, SoC platforms, diagnostics, and failure or crash analysis, is preferred.

Compensation

• Salary range is $147,000 to $196,600.

Benefits

• Benefits include paid time off, healthcare, dental and vision coverage, life insurance, pension contributions, and a vehicle purchase plan.