Software Engineering Manager (Core Workspaces)

About the role

As an Engineering Manager on Coder’s Core Workspaces team, you’ll lead engineers building and evolving the systems behind our agentic development experience. You’ll help make agents more capable, reliable, and useful across real development environments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team within our Workspaces organization.
• Set technical direction across the agent harness, integrations, and workflows.
• Stay close to the code and contribute to architecture and implementation decisions.
• Evolve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long‑running workflows.
• Extend our provider‑agnostic architecture as models and capabilities change.
• Partner with Product and Design to turn agent capabilities into useful developer experiences.
• Improve reliability, performance, and operability across agentic systems.
• Coach engineers, raise the technical bar, and create clarity around priorities and tradeoffs.

Required profile

• Experience managing and growing software engineering teams.
• Strong hands‑on engineering experience with React and TypeScript.
• Experience with Go.
• Hands‑on experience building systems around LLMs and agentic workflows.
• Experience with model APIs, tool calling, context management, or agent loops.
• Strong distributed systems knowledge.
• Working knowledge of AWS.
• Strong technical judgment and comfort working through ambiguity.
• A track record of helping engineers grow while maintaining a high execution bar.

Required skills

• React
• TypeScript
• Go
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Linux
• PostgreSQL
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• GitHub Actions