Software Engineering Manager

Role Overview

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team building and evolving CNN’s Experimentation Tooling platform. This team enables product, editorial, and growth teams across Web, Mobile, and CTV to rapidly validate ideas through easy, frictionless, and effective experimentation.

What You Will Do

Manage a team of software engineers, support career development, performance feedback, and engagement. Guide the design and delivery of a centralized experimentation platform that supports multiple surfaces (Web, iOS, Android, CTV) and teams.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role blends people leadership, technical stewardship, and cross-functional collaboration in a high-impact platform environment. You will help scale experimentation across the organization by reducing friction, improving reliability and performance, and building tools that teams genuinely want to use.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Direct experience managing and growing engineering team members. 2+ years of experience preferred.
• Experience managing software engineers as a people manager, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Strong technical background in modern software engineering, with the ability to guide architecture and design discussions.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with product, data, and platform stakeholders.
• Hands on experience with various cloud services such as load balancers, EC2, SQS, SNS, Kafka, and CDNs on platforms such as AWS and Fastly.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and managing sophisticated back-end platforms and libraries that support integration across multiple engineering teams, while serving the needs of multiple product and design teams.
• Clear communication skills and comfort operating in a distributed, hybrid team environment.
• Experience with experimentation, A/B testing platforms, feature flagging, or analytics tooling.
• Familiarity with performance critical systems, edge computing, or server side rendering.
• Experience integrating and optimizing deployment pipelines (CI/CD)

Benefits

• Career defining opportunities
• Thoughtfully curated benefits
• Tools to explore and grow into your best selves
• Support, celebration, and opportunities to thrive