Senior Engineering Manager

Company: Pluralsight

Website: Visit Website

Business Type: Enterprise

Company Type: Product

Business Model: B2B2C

Funding Stage: Series D+

Industry: Edtech

Job Description

The Senior Manager of Software Engineering is responsible for establishing and leading a multi-function engineering and DevOps team. They partner with executive and senior leadership to ensure the success of our regional and/or domain-specific engineering functions.

Who You’re Committed To Being

• Strong leader who leads by example
• Tech genius who manages challenges & issues easily.
• Successfully owning the engineering function
• You enjoy learning and are open to new ways of doing things.
• You are not afraid to be yourself, experiment, make mistakes and learn from them, ask questions, or voice your concerns.
• When communicating you are self-aware, insightful, and proactive.
  
  

What You’ll Do

• Regional and/or domain leadership
• Drive product excellence ensuring that our technology delights our users, improves quality, and reduces the cost of support and maintenance of our product development
• Ensure our products meet or exceed the contracted SLA uptime
• Create direct and deep relationship with product managers, sales, and account managers
• Inform the product strategy by bringing technical perspective to the conversation
  
  

Experience You’ll Bring

• Experience as a software engineer and technical leader with large-scale projects delivered have prepared you for this role
• Experience leading technical team that support and partner with international technology and product peers
• Experience operating both cloud services, with technical depth to be active in decisions about the large architectural investments
• Proven ability to focus engineering work on the top corporate objectives and priorities, and accountability for keeping strategic work on track
• Experience with API management, product instrumentation, analytics, continuous development and integration, and security and audit concerns
• Should have experience in hiring and mentoring talent
• must have been involved in the appraisal process and people/team management for at least 5 years.
  
  

Requirements

• Requires a minimum of 15+ years overall experience
• An engineering graduate with computer science or information technology background.
• Should have the work experience in building and maintaining backend services and APIs using Node.js and C# (.NET Core)
• Troubleshoot and debug issues across the full stack.
• Adds value if worked in Analytical tools like MS-SQL / MYSQL / PostGres
• Adds value if worked in the OLAP tools like Snowflake, Spark or any similar tools
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers, product managers, and other developers to define, design, and deliver new features.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, and maintainability.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and team meetings.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design discussions.
• Collaborate with the development team / architect to Design and implement database schemas, tables, views, and indexes as per the standards.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements
• Help theTroubleshoot performance issues and ensure database integrity and security
• Ensure best practices in database design and development
• Perform regular data quality checks and support data migration projects
• Guide the team to Develop responsive, high-performance web interfaces using React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Should have the knowledge and work experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) for development, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines and automate workflows.
• Proficiency with modern IDEs such as VS Code.
• Version control experience using GitLab, including branching strategies and merge requests.
• Task and issue tracking using JIRA or similar tools.
• Understanding of AWS services (especially EC2, S3, RDS, SQS) and cloud architecture principles.
• Experience working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to monitoring/logging tools like Grafana, New Relic, Opsgenie, or similar (Datadog, Prometheus, etc.).
• Basic knowledge of application performance monitoring (APM) and alerting best practices.
• Experience working collaboratively with Agile or Kanban development teams.
• Good communication skills, ability to partner with product and design, and collaborate on multi-functional teams - a strong collaborator, a trusted teammate, and are skilled at resolving and working through different ideas.
• Hybrid Work Model: This role follows a hybrid schedule, with on-site work at our Bangalore office two days per week, as agreed up on with your leader. This approach helps us collaborate more effectively, make decisions more quickly, and build a stronger culture, while still providing flexibility.
  
  

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• We’re a blended workplace, where team members work remotely or in a hybrid setup depending on their role and location
• We’re mission-driven and values-guided.
• We have a strong commitment to diversity and belonging.
• We cultivate a culture of trust, autonomy, and collaboration.
• We’re lifelong learners and champion team member growth and advancement.
• We’ve got you covered: team member benefits include competitive compensation packages, medical coverage, unlimited PTO and Summer Fridays, wellness reimbursements, Pluralsight subscription, professional development funds, and more.
  
  

About Us

Pluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today’s tech workforce. Thousands of companies, government organizations and individuals around the world rely on Pluralsight to support critical technology skill development in areas that are crucial to innovation including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, and machine learning. Pluralsight provides highly curated content developed by vetted technology experts, industry leading skill assessments, and hands on, immersive learning experiences designed to help individuals skill-up faster.

Physical And Mental Requirements

Work is performed in an office (or home office) environment and requires the ability to operate office equipment and keyboards. Sedentary work. Repetitive work. Ability to perform tasks related to documentation, data analysis, transcription and extensive content analysis. Learn new tasks, remember processes, complete tasks independently, and make timely decisions in the context of a workflow.

EEOC Statement

Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or protected veteran status. Pluralsight will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please visit the bottom of our website to learn how to request an accommodation.

For more information on Pluralsight’s commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce, please review our most recent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging report here.

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• Pluralsight will only contact candidates through official channels, such as emails from the @pluralsight.com domain or direct messages via our verified profiles (e.g., LinkedIn).
• We will never request payment, banking information, or personal documents (such as your social security number or passport) as part of the application process.
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