Software Engineering Manager
Redmond, WAJob$143–275K/yrPosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
The Software Engineering Manager leads a team delivering customer and business outcomes, owning technical quality, architecture, engineering systems, and operational health. The role drives execution, reliability, and engineering excellence, including the use of AI to improve quality and effectiveness. It also develops and retains engineers and partners across disciplines to deliver software from design through production.
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Full job description
Lead a team of software engineers to deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes. Define clear objectives and measurable outcomes, establish priorities, and create accountability for execution and results. Own the technical quality and engineering outcomes of the team. Stay deeply connected to the architecture, codebase, engineering systems, and operational health of the services your team owns. Drive engineering excellence across design, implementation, testing, deployment, security, reliability, performance, and maintainability using AI to improve engineering quality and effectiveness.Build a culture where engineers solve root causes, make data-driven decisions, and leave systems better than they found them. Drive execution with urgency and focus. Translate customer and business priorities into an executable engineering plan, identify dependencies and risks early, make appropriate tradeoffs, and maintain clarity on progress and outcomes. Operate and improve production services at scale. Establish a strong live-site culture, use incidents and operational data to identify systemic improvements, and hold a high bar for service reliability and customer experience. Develop and grow engineers. Lead, grow, coach, hire, and retain a high-performing team of engineers. Provide clear, actionable feedback and create opportunities for engineers to grow their technical capabilities, ownership, and impact. Collaborate across organizational and discipline boundaries. Build effective partnerships with product, engineering, and other stakeholders to resolve dependencies and deliver end-to-end customer outcomes. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline AND 10+ years of experience in software engineering, OR equivalent experience. 3+ years of software engineering people management experience. 5+ years of experience launching and shipping multiple iterations of products to customers. Experience leading technical projects and working with engineers and cross-functional partners to deliver software from design through production. * Demonstrated technical depth in areas such as distributed systems, cloud services, large-scale data processing, and storage or big data platforms. Self-starter with strong engineering judgment, communication skills, demonstrated ability to influence across teams, and a bias toward action and results. Proven ability to collaborate across teams, disciplines, and levels of management while contributing to a healthy, inclusive engineering culture. Demonstrated customer empathy and a passion for delivering high-quality experiences and measurable customer outcomes. Experience with Azure cloud technologies and large-scale distributed data processing platforms such as Apache Spark. Experience developing and shipping AI-powered features, including experience with LLMs. Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,152 open Software Engineering Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$143–275K/yr
- Washington median$175–275K/yr63 salary ranges
- US median$142–261K/yr993 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $209K, is 4% below the Washington median midpoint ($218K) — in the middle half of Software Engineering Manager salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 74 open Software Engineering Manager jobs in Washington and 1,152 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Google11 open
- Microsoft Corporation10 open
- Amazon8 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Software Engineering Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (1,055 postings).
- Education
- 419 of the 1,152 open Software Engineering Manager jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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