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Senior Software Engineering Manager, Logistics
Location
California
Posted
154 days ago
Salary
$216K - $289K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Logistics
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• Lead, develop, and retain a team of 10+ software engineers; set goals, grow careers, and foster a healthy, inclusive, high-performance culture. • Own multi-quarter roadmaps for core Serving surfaces (e.g., Dispatching and Assignments, Geospatial/Mapping, Service Options, Shopper Pay/Consumer Pricing, ML Foundations), delivering measurable reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency improvements. • Partner closely with Logistics Foundations and adjacent Logistics teams to design platform capabilities and interfaces that unlock experimentation, speed, and long-term maintainability. • Engage deeply in technical design and execution—review designs and code, drive architectural decisions, define SLOs, establish observability standards, and oversee on-call and incident response. • Collaborate with PMs, data scientists, and enterprise partners to shape sustainable retailer customizations and marketplace policies that drive growth and operational efficiency. • Prioritize and manage inbound requests across a horizontal surface area, creating clarity, sequencing complex programs, and delivering outcomes in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 4+ years of experience directly managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
- Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed backend services.
- Proven track record defining and delivering multi-quarter roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
- Experience designing, operating, and scaling services with defined SLOs, on-call ownership, robust observability, and incident response practices.
- Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation (base pay range depending on location)
- Remote and flexible work arrangements
- New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants
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