Senior Engineering Manager - Developer Productivity - Performance Engineering

Our client values developer experience and quality infrastructure as crucial components in delivering high-performance, resilient, and secure data products. As the Engineering Manager for the Developer Experience & Services team, you will lead an essential engineering group dedicated to enhancing developer productivity, internal tooling, and quality assurance infrastructure. This role is a blend of platform engineering and quality engineering, where your team's focus will be on constructing systems, tools, and automation frameworks that drive engineering velocity, product reliability, and operational excellence. You will play a pivotal role in evolving the core developer platform and executing strategies for test infrastructure, performance benchmarking, fault tolerance verification, and chaos testing. In this leadership position, your responsibilities will include: - Leading and expanding a high-impact team responsible for developer experience, platform tooling, and quality infrastructure. - Owning and advancing the company-wide developer platform, encompassing internal tools for build and deployment, observability, monitoring, alerting, remote dev environments, local dev tooling, and engineering standards. - Developing quality assurance infrastructure such as scalable test automation frameworks, infrastructure for performance testing and benchmarking, chaos engineering and fault injection systems, and support for deployment strategies. - Driving the adoption of engineering best practices in testing, reliability, and continuous delivery. - Collaborating with engineers to identify and alleviate friction points through tooling and automation. - Defining metrics and SLAs for engineering productivity, test coverage, release confidence, and platform uptime to ensure continuous improvement. - Leading technical architecture discussions to ensure the scalability and maintainability of internal platforms and tooling. - Cultivating a culture of ownership, experimentation, and learning within the team. Key Requirements: - 10+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record in building infrastructure or platforms. - At least 1 year in a team leadership or engineering management role. - Customer-centric mindset, growth mindset, and drive for impact. - Strong coding, design, and architectural skills to serve as a technical leader. - Analytical and problem-solving skills. - Proficiency in data-driven metrics for operational excellence. - Excellent oral and written communication skills. - Cross-team communication abilities with a focus on productivity and quality. - Familiarity with tools and frameworks like GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Pytest, Selenium, JUnit, JMeter, Locust, Chaos Mesh, Gremlin, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Elastic Stack. If you have experience in DevX teams and are passionate about making a hands-on impact on transformative projects, please reach out to rajeshwari.vh@careerxperts.com.,