Manager, Software Engineering

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At Ironwood Digital, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your opportunity At Ironwood Digital, we build software that improves the lives of people who make software. Our products help customers visualize, explore, and understand their operations, applications, and customer data. We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with a passion for technology, people, projects, data, and processes, a leader with depth and breadth of technical experience who can inspire teams and guide them toward success. If you have a strong technical background combined with mentorship skills and a track record of collaborating across teams to ship great software, we would like to hear from you. About the team The APM product organization drives Ironwood Digital's customer-facing Application Performance Monitoring (APM) experiences, agents, and next-generation application platform capabilities, including AI Monitoring, Digital Experience Monitoring, and Synthetic testing. This full-stack team owns our Distributed Tracing product, which gives customers visibility into their application workloads including AI agents and is mission-critical to the next generation of APM tools. You will lead a team of engineers, drive thought leadership, ship enterprise-ready products, improve operational excellence, grow engineering talent, and support the exponential data growth of our customers. What you'll do Lead and grow a team responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of Ironwood Digital's Distributed Tracing platform Coach and mentor a dedicated group of engineers, helping them develop their personal and professional skills while staying engaged and motivated Drive technology decision-making, process efficiency, and engineering excellence Ensure the success of software projects through planning and execution, both within and across teams Collaborate with cross-functional partners to align product and business goals Implement processes and methodologies that foster operational excellence Drive the recruitment, training, and development of strong engineering talent This role requires Proven experience in software engineering, with 10+ years overall and 3+ years leading engineering teams Track record of leading and scaling strong technical teams Experience handling customer incidents, including the ability to dive deep and understand the technical implications and risks of engineering decisions Hands-on experience with Java or other backend programming languages Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Experience delivering products or solutions in cloud environments Bonus points if you have Experience with observability tooling, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, or APM Experience with high-scale distributed systems, Kafka, or Kubernetes Experience shipping developer-facing products Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected] . We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid. 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