Tech Lead Manager, Developer Experience

We're scaling from 50 to 120+ engineers over the next year. That kind of growth breaks things: builds slow down, onboarding stalls, deployments get fragile. The Developer Experience team prevents that.

We treat our internal developers as customers, measure their pain points, and ship tools that make the entire engineering organization faster. This is a small, high-leverage team of 2-3 engineers with outsized impact on how Peregrine builds software.

As Tech Lead Manager for Developer Experience, you'll lead the team responsible for engineering tooling, velocity, observability, and monitoring. Your team's work compounds: every improvement multiplies across 100+ engineers.

This is hands-on leadership. You'll set technical direction, build and grow a small team of senior engineers, and partner across engineering to solve the highest-impact developer productivity problems. You'll define how we measure engineering effectiveness and use that data to drive investment decisions.

• Own the DevEx roadmap. Define strategy for CI/CD, observability, and developer productivity. Prioritize ruthlessly based on data and feedback.
• Lead and grow a high-performing team. Manage 2-3 engineers, provide mentorship, career development, and clear direction. Hire well and raise the bar.
• Establish engineering effectiveness measurement. Instrument workflows and stand up metrics (e.g., build times, deployment frequency, developer satisfaction, onboarding velocity).
• Drive CI/CD and deployment reliability. Keep build, test, and deploy pipelines fast and reliable as we scale.
• Build observability and monitoring foundations. Partner with platform engineering to ensure systems are instrumented and alerts are actionable.
• Stay hands-on technically. Architect solutions, review code, and make infrastructure decisions alongside your team.

Our stack is constantly evolving but based on a backend foundation of Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, and Kafka; a frontend built in React, Redux, and Mapbox; data stores including PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch; machine learning models hosted in Bedrock and Sagemaker; and with AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes as our underlying infrastructure.

• 6+ years software engineering experience with meaningful time in developer tooling, platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure
• 2+ years engineering management experience including hiring, performance management, and team development
• Demonstrated experience building or leading developer experience, developer productivity, or internal platform teams
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD), observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana), and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• Experience with containerized systems and Kubernetes in production
• Strong Python skills and cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred)
• Track record using data to identify developer pain points and measure tooling impact
• Located in the San Francisco area and open to 4 days a week in office

• Scaled engineering tooling through rapid headcount growth (e.g., 50 to 200+ engineers)
• Built engineering effectiveness programs from scratch (e.g., DORA metrics, developer surveys, workflow instrumentation)
• Evaluated and rolled out AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) organizationally
• Built developer portals, self-service platforms, or golden path workflows
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., FedRAMP, SOC 2, CJIS)

Salary Range: $220,000 - $275,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, certifications or licenses, and specific work location. Information on the benefits offered is here.