Engineering Manager
TL;DR: We’re seeking a deeply technical Engineering Manager to lead teams building Cloudsmith 2.0, the operating system for the modern software supply chain. You should have operated at senior, staff, or principal engineering depth, and be able to reason through complex production systems with strong engineers.
About Cloudsmith
Cloudsmith is building the operating system for the modern software supply chain.
We run a global, fully managed, multi‑tenant SaaS platform that helps organizations manage, secure, govern, and distribute software artifacts at scale.
Our customers use Cloudsmith as critical infrastructure for CI/CD, developer workflows, security controls, compliance, and software distribution. We support 30+ formats across languages, containers, and operating systems.
We recently raised our Series C to accelerate Cloudsmith 2.0: deeper artifact intelligence, stronger policy and provenance, faster package‑aware delivery, and infrastructure built for engineering teams, as well as the modern AI‑driven software factory.
By developers, for developers. We care about craft, architecture, and enterprise scale.
The Role
As a technical Engineering Manager, you’ll report to the VP of Engineering and lead one or more teams working on Cloudsmith’s core platform.
This role is a management role with a high technical bar. We need someone who can read production code, challenge technical designs, follow a distributed system across services and data stores, and spot operational risks before they turn into problems.
You should be technical enough to earn trust in architecture, design, and operational discussions with senior and principal engineers.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Lead teams building systems for artifact record, policy control, and package delivery.
- Shape technical direction with Principal Engineers, Product, Design, and Security.
- Challenge weak designs, unclear ownership, hidden coupling, and over‑complexity.
- Raise the bar on design review, planning, operational readiness, and incident learning.
- Help teams balance customer value, delivery speed, architecture, and reliability.
Team Leadership
- Hire, coach, and continuously develop strong engineers.
- Develop a peer relationship with Principal Engineers and technical leaders.
- Build teams with high trust, high standards, and clear ownership.
- Create clarity around expectations, decision‑making, and technical judgment.
- Maintain high standards via clear expectations and providing direct, honest feedback.
Execution & Delivery
- Own delivery from discovery through implementation, release, and operation.
- Break ambiguous work into clear milestones, risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs.
- Right‑size team process to improve predictability without adding undue overhead.
- Keep customer impact, reliability, and trust visible in engineering decisions.
- Ensure teams build software that is secure, observable, performant, and maintainable.
Required Experience, Qualities & Skills
Technical Depth
- Significant experience as an Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent.
- Strong background in backend, platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud‑native SaaS, developer tools, or security infrastructure.
- Experience designing or operating high‑throughput, database‑backed production systems, preferably distributed or at large scale.
- Strong debugging and performance instincts for slow queries, hot paths, queue backlogs, cache behavior, network issues, deploy risk, and incidents.
- Comfortable with API design, data modeling, async processing, relational databases, analytical stores, object storage, tenancy boundaries, and failure modes.
- Able to read production code and challenge technical decisions.
Cloud‑Native Infrastructure
- Experience with AWS, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.
- Familiarity with our stack is useful: Python, Django, Postgres, ClickHouse, AWS, ECS, CloudFront, Kinesis, Lambda, Terraform, React, and Next.js.
- Experience with Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, CDC pipelines, indexing systems, search infrastructure, analytics stores, or metadata enrichment would be valuable.
- Experience with package registries, artifact storage, object storage, caching, CDNs, proxying, edge delivery, or high‑volume HTTP systems is especially useful.
Software Supply Chain & Security
- Experience in devtools, DevOps, CI/CD, artifact management, package management, platform engineering, or enterprise SaaS.
- Security mindset around trust boundaries, policy enforcement, provenance, auditability, authentication, authorization, signing, tokens, and secrets.
- Interest in package identity, upstream trust, metadata quality, policy decisions, malware risk, dependency control, and delivery at scale.
Management & Communication
- Proven track record of hiring, coaching, and developing strong engineers.
- Comfortable working with senior and principal engineers as peers.
- Clear written and verbal communicator in a remote‑first environment.
- Good product sense. You care about customer outcomes and platform quality.
Cultural Values We're Looking For
- Technical humility: Strong opinions, loosely held, balanced with sound judgment.
- Builder mindset: Close to the work, even when not acting as an IC.
- High standards, low ego: Raise the bar while respecting the ideas/opinions of others.
- Calm under pressure: Good judgment for incidents, ambiguity, and hard conversations.
- Clear thinking: Turns messy problems into decisions and trade‑offs.
- Ownership: Cares that the team is healthy, and customers can trust what we ship.
Impact & Opportunity
This role helps shape the engineering organization behind Cloudsmith 2.0.
AI is increasing the rate at which software is created and changed. Enterprises need stronger controls, better provenance, clearer trust decisions, and a faster path to delivery. You’ll help build the infrastructure that records, governs, and delivers software artifacts at scale.
Growth & Development
This role is a strong fit for someone who wants to grow into executive engineering leadership.
We’re looking for someone who can lead teams today, but also wants to understand company strategy, architecture, product direction, operational excellence, and how great engineering organizations are built, from startup scale through to public companies.
Benefits, Location & Work Environment
You must be based in Ireland or the United Kingdom and have the right to work independently without requiring sponsorship.
About Equal Opportunity
Cloudsmith is an equal‑opportunity employer, proud to nurture a diverse workplace that welcomes applications from individuals of all races, genders, and ethnicities. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, religion, sexual orientation, citizenship status, military service, or health conditions. We will not tolerate discrimination of any kind.
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TL;DR: We’re seeking a deeply technical Engineering Manager to lead teams building Cloudsmith 2.0, the operating system for the modern software supply chain. You should have operated at senior, staff, or principal engineering depth, and be able to reason through complex production systems with strong engineers.
About Cloudsmith
Cloudsmith is building the operating system for the modern software supply chain.
We run a global, fully managed, multi‑tenant SaaS platform that helps organizations manage, secure, govern, and distribute software artifacts at scale.
Our customers use Cloudsmith as critical infrastructure for CI/CD, developer workflows, security controls, compliance, and software distribution. We support 30+ formats across languages, containers, and operating systems.
We recently raised our Series C to accelerate Cloudsmith 2.0: deeper artifact intelligence, stronger policy and provenance, faster package‑aware delivery, and infrastructure built for engineering teams, as well as the modern AI‑driven software factory.
By developers, for developers. We care about craft, architecture, and enterprise scale.
The Role
As a technical Engineering Manager, you’ll report to the VP of Engineering and lead one or more teams working on Cloudsmith’s core platform.
This role is a management role with a high technical bar. We need someone who can read production code, challenge technical designs, follow a distributed system across services and data stores, and spot operational risks before they turn into problems.
You should be technical enough to earn trust in architecture, design, and operational discussions with senior and principal engineers.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Lead teams building systems for artifact record, policy control, and package delivery.
- Shape technical direction with Principal Engineers, Product, Design, and Security.
- Challenge weak designs, unclear ownership, hidden coupling, and over‑complexity.
- Raise the bar on design review, planning, operational readiness, and incident learning.
- Help teams balance customer value, delivery speed, architecture, and reliability.
Team Leadership
- Hire, coach, and continuously develop strong engineers.
- Develop a peer relationship with Principal Engineers and technical leaders.
- Build teams with high trust, high standards, and clear ownership.
- Create clarity around expectations, decision‑making, and technical judgment.
- Maintain high standards via clear expectations and providing direct, honest feedback.
Execution & Delivery
- Own delivery from discovery through implementation, release, and operation.
- Break ambiguous work into clear milestones, risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs.
- Right‑size team process to improve predictability without adding undue overhead.
- Keep customer impact, reliability, and trust visible in engineering decisions.
- Ensure teams build software that is secure, observable, performant, and maintainable.
Required Experience, Qualities & Skills
Technical Depth
- Significant experience as an Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent.
- Strong background in backend, platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud‑native SaaS, developer tools, or security infrastructure.
- Experience designing or operating high‑throughput, database‑backed production systems, preferably distributed or at large scale.
- Strong debugging and performance instincts for slow queries, hot paths, queue backlogs, cache behavior, network issues, deploy risk, and incidents.
- Comfortable with API design, data modeling, async processing, relational databases, analytical stores, object storage, tenancy boundaries, and failure modes.
- Able to read production code and challenge technical decisions.
Cloud‑Native Infrastructure
- Experience with AWS, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.
- Familiarity with our stack is useful: Python, Django, Postgres, ClickHouse, AWS, ECS, CloudFront, Kinesis, Lambda, Terraform, React, and Next.js.
- Experience with Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, CDC pipelines, indexing systems, search infrastructure, analytics stores, or metadata enrichment would be valuable.
- Experience with package registries, artifact storage, object storage, caching, CDNs, proxying, edge delivery, or high‑volume HTTP systems is especially useful.
Software Supply Chain & Security
- Experience in devtools, DevOps, CI/CD, artifact management, package management, platform engineering, or enterprise SaaS.
- Security mindset around trust boundaries, policy enforcement, provenance, auditability, authentication, authorization, signing, tokens, and secrets.
- Interest in package identity, upstream trust, metadata quality, policy decisions, malware risk, dependency control, and delivery at scale.
Management & Communication
- Proven track record of hiring, coaching, and developing strong engineers.
- Comfortable working with senior and principal engineers as peers.
- Clear written and verbal communicator in a remote‑first environment.
- Good product sense. You care about customer outcomes and platform quality.
Cultural Values We’re Looking For
- Technical humility: Strong opinions, loosely held, balanced with sound judgment.
- Builder mindset: Close to the work, even when not acting as an IC.
- High standards, low ego: Raise the bar while respecting the ideas/opinions of others.
- Calm under pressure: Good judgment for incidents, ambiguity, and hard conversations.
- Clear thinking: Turns messy problems into decisions and trade‑offs.
- Ownership: Cares that the team is healthy, and customers can trust what we ship.
Impact & Opportunity
This role helps shape the engineering organization behind Cloudsmith 2.0.
AI is increasing the rate at which software is created and changed. Enterprises need stronger controls, better provenance, clearer trust decisions, and a faster path to delivery. You’ll help build the infrastructure that records, governs, and delivers software artifacts at scale.
Growth & Development
This role is a strong fit for someone who wants to grow into executive engineering leadership.
We’re looking for someone who can lead teams today, but also wants to understand company strategy, architecture, product direction, operational excellence, and how great engineering organizations are built, from startup scale through to public companies.
Benefits, Location & Work Environment
You must be based in Ireland or the United Kingdom and have the right to work independently without requiring sponsorship.
About Equal Opportunity
Cloudsmith is an equal‑opportunity employer, proud to nurture a diverse workplace that welcomes applications from individuals of all races, genders, and ethnicities. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, religion, sexual orientation, citizenship status, military service, or health conditions. We will not tolerate discrimination of any kind.
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