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Software Engineering Manager, Public Sector

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $162,400–$162,400🗓 2026-07-15 → 2026-07-31

Core

Lead a team of 6-8 engineers building backend systems, distributed platforms, and ML tooling for U.S. government agencies to support national security and defense missions.

Role type

Engineering Manager (Public Sector)

Builds

Backend systems, distributed platforms, and ML tooling for Federal customers

Domain

Public Sector / National Security / Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure | product features

Required skills

Engineering management, technical planning and execution, recruiting, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, navigating federal compliance, designing scalable backend systems, developing distributed systems, building reliable backend systems, customer engagement, product strategy

Preferred skills

Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups, deep technical knowledge of software development, experience with AI platforms and generative models/LLMs, cloud-native technologies, data engineering, ML ops infrastructure

Technologies

Generative AI, LLMs, cloud-native AI infrastructure, distributed systems, data-intensive applications

Responsibilities

Recruit a high-performing engineering team, drive engineering productivity and provide technical leadership, collaborate on strategic roadmap, navigate public sector compliance requirements, design and implement scalable backend systems, develop distributed systems and ML infrastructure, participate in customer engagements, contribute to platform roadmap and product strategy

Seniority

Manager, hands-on IC with team leadership

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