Engineering Manager - Developer PlatformSan Francisco, CA

Engineering Manager - Developer Platform

At Pave, we're combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and Machine Learning to reimagine how our clients make compensation decisions. By building the operating system for compensation, we're perfecting the art and science of pay to give 8,500+ companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision.

OpenAI, Instacart, Ramp, Snowflake, Stripe, Databricks, Okta, Perplexity, and 8,500+ companies use Pave to power their compensation ecosystems and transform every pay decision into a competitive advantage.

The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and Pave has raised $160M in funding to lead the way. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures, we are transforming the compensation landscape.

$190+ Billion in Total compensation spend managed in Pave workflows

8,500+ Companies using Pave

1+ Million Unique employees auto-matched into Pave's real-time dataset

135X Increase in equity benchmarks delivered with machine learning

58% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation

Pave's R&D pillar includes our data science, engineering, information technology, product design, product management, and security teams. This organization builds, maintains, and secures a platform used by more than 8,500+ client organizations.

Our engineering team moves between ideation, scoping, and execution in a matter of days while closely iterating with cross-functional partners on requirements. At Pave, we use TypeScript, Node.js, and React, hosted on GCP.

The Developer Platform team sits at the epicenter of Pave Engineering. The team is responsible for Pave's infrastructure, developer tooling, and development workflows, ensuring product engineers can confidently ship enterprise-quality software with high velocity. In this role, you will lead a team of experienced engineers focused on creating a best-in-class development experience and designing & managing scalable, secure cloud infrastructure to support the uptime and performance requirements of Pave's largest, most sophisticated customers.

What You'll Be Doing

• Manage, coach, and grow a team of high-performing backend and infrastructure engineers
• Drive strategic engineering initiatives to improve the scalability, performance, and reliability of the Pave application
• Manage critical vendor relationships, like GCP and Datadog
• Lead Pave's business continuity and disaster recovery strategy
• Define Engineering best practices and drive adoption across the organization

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years of industry experience with a strong emphasis on cloud infrastructure and developer tooling, including 2+ years management experience
• Experience managing highly available infrastructure; familiarity with GCP preferred but not mandatory
• High developer empathy. Passionate about improving developer tooling and processes
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams through planning and execution of large technical projects that span multiple quarters
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to provide clear direction, set expectations, and provide actionable feedback
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and tackle problems with high agency and resilience. Well-suited to lead in a startup environment
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive team culture that empowers team members from all backgrounds

Compensation, It's What We Do.

Salary is just one component of Pave's total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package at Pave will include equity, top-notch medical, dental, and vision coverage, an unlimited PTO policy, and many other region-specific benefits. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail. This salary range may include multiple levels.

Pave's salary range for this position

$195,500 - $264,500 USD

Life @ Pave

Since being founded in 2019 Pave has grown globally. We're based across our HQ in San Francisco's FiDi neighborhood, Flatiron in NYC and regional hubs in Salt Lake City and the United Kingdom. We embrace a high-energy, collaborative in-person work environment at these locations, operating on a hybrid schedule that brings teams together in-office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and vision coverage for you and your family, with plenty of options to suit your needs
• Flexible PTO and the ability to work from anywhere in the world for a month
• Lunch & dinner stipends as well as fully stocked kitchens to fuel you
• Quarterly education stipend to continuously grow
• Robust parental leave to bond with your new family
• A commuter stipend to help you collaborate in person

Vision

Our vision is to unlock a labor market built on trust.

Mission

Our team's mission is to build confidence in every compensation decision.

Values

Our four values are intellectual honesty, playing to win, upholding the Pave platinum standard, and hug of jawn!

Are you ready to help our clients make smarter, more effective compensation decisions?