Senior Engineering Manager

About DevRev:

At DevRev, our mission is to unlock team potential through human-AI collaboration.

In order to do so, we have built our native Knowledge Graph that is capable of syncing structured and unstructured records from any external system, providing semantic search capabilities, enabling automations and agentic skills, and deep analytical querying on top of these records. 

Coupling the knowledge graph with foundational pieces such as our permission and access management platform, agent studio and execution engine, our native observability platform, enable us to build agentic applications that work reliably for large enterprises and young startups alike.

About the role: Senior Engineering Manager

In order to build agentic applications, we need to be able to ingest, index and serve large volumes of data, enable agents and automations to fetch, reason, process user and system events as well as analyze and aggregate the data to unlock intelligence. All this, while giving full control to customers to customize and model their business on top of DevRev.

We are looking for experienced engineering leaders who are passionate about building fast, reliable, and personalizable platforms, and can help their teams deliver customer delight.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of senior to early-career high-performing engineers tackling these challenges. You will be an engineer first — capable of designing and building alongside your team, while also driving technical direction, execution excellence, and team development. You will blend deep technical judgment with empathy for both engineers and customers, ensuring that our backend and frontend systems are elegant, scalable, and deliver measurable customer impact.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will:

• Lead your team to design and build scalable, distributed backend systems and frontend components taking ownership of clarity and execution.
• Stay hands-on — contribute to architecture, design reviews, and implementation of critical components.
• Be accountable for customer delight, ensuring systems deliver performance, reliability, and simplicity at scale.
• Mentor and coach engineers to solve complex scalability, performance, and multi-tenancy challenges while growing technical depth and ownership.
• Drive technical excellence through distributed systems best practices, API-first design, and CI/CD to ensure high deployment velocity and reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and customer success to incorporate customer and market needs, align priorities, and drive clarity.

What You'll Need

• 10–15 years software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years leading teams delivering high-performance, reliable, multi-tenant SaaS backends with frontend components.
• Expertise in defining clean interfaces, distributed systems, databases, message buses (Kafka preferred), and modern cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless).
• Proficiency in Go (preferred), Java, or Python.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical strategy with execution excellence.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and fostering a culture of ownership and learning.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.

Bonus Points For

• Deep understanding of performance tuning and optimization in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Experience leading teams building GenAI agentic reasoning engines that leverage memory, skills, and tools for complex task completion.

Why Join DevRev?

At DevRev, we take pride in building an AI-native platform that reimagines how teams and organizations work. Our teams work on cutting-edge technologies, and each individual is driven with autonomy and purpose.
We believe in transparency, honesty, and doing the right thing for our customers, company, and employees.

DevRev is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

As part of our hiring process, shortlisted candidates will undergo a Background Verification (BGV). By applying, you consent to sharing personal information required for this process. Any offer made will be subject to successful completion of the BGV.