Senior Software Engineering Manager
Redmond, WAJobPosted todayStill listed today
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The Senior Software Engineering Manager provides technical oversight for scalable systems and sets direction for AI-native security experiences and platform components. The role covers AI architecture, responsible AI and compliance, and reusable AI modules, while partnering across engineering, business, and the Office of the CTO. It also includes mentoring direct reports and creating an inclusive work environment.
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Technical Oversight: Provide hands-on technical guidance, review designs, code implementation and Pull Requests (PRs), define Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)/data contracts, architect scalable systems, and establish evaluation frameworks to de-risk complex systems. Partner with multiple engineering and business partners across the company to ensure that the solutions meet their business goals and can be successfully integrated into their codebase. Create an inclusive work environment where every employee can effectively engage and wants to be part of the team. Provide ongoing feedback that helps your direct reports improve their performance. AI Strategy & Architecture: Set direction for AI-native security experiences and platform components, LLMs vs classical Machine Learning (ML), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) design, grounding, model routing/fallbacks, and safety guardrails to meet customer outcomes and Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Responsible AI & Compliance: Ensure privacy, security, and Responsible AI guardrails are considered from day one. Coordinate safety reviews, abuse prevention, compliance, and incident readiness. Architect the framework for abstraction and reuse of our AI modules for integration into the AI platform, choose the appropriate internal or external technologies, incorporate research, create design and validation collateral, including test automations that are reused across the program. Work closely with other members of the Office of the CTO to support strategic programs. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 3+ years of experience as a technical lead, including mentoring and growing early-in-career software engineers 3+ years of experience with cloud architectures 2+ years of experience in building AI or data science platforms 2+ years of Azure experience Experience consuming and contributing to open-source software projects Experience working with distributed teams Experience with evaluating, fine-tuning and deploying LLM and more traditional machine learning solutions
How this job compares
Set against the 1,141 open Software Engineering Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Washington median$185–293K/yr60 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 69 open Software Engineering Manager jobs in Washington and 1,141 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Google15 open
- Microsoft Corporation8 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Software Engineering Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 1,042 postings).
- Education
- 426 of the 1,141 open Software Engineering Manager jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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