{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8b20bc448d04b113dbf4476c","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8b20bc448d04b113dbf4476c","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8b20bc448d04b113dbf4476c","title":"Software Engineering Manager - Cloud Software, Data Platform & AI-Agentic Product Engineering","description":"Software Engineering Manager\n\nCloud Software, Data Platform & AI-Agentic Product Engineering\n\nThe Software Engineering Manager leads a team of engineers building Picarro's cloud software, data platform, and AI-agentic product engineering capabilities. This is a hybrid technical and people-leadership role, expected to stay close to architecture and technical decisions—not just manage process—while building and growing a high-ownership engineering team.\n\nResponsibilities\nManage and grow a team of product/software engineers, and potentially mobile engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and career development.\nSet technical direction jointly with senior ICs for the team's systems, including architecture reviews, major design decisions, and technical tradeoffs.\nChampion and evolve the team's product-engineering-driven, AI-assisted development practices, including prototype-first development, fast iteration, and engineers owning production reliability.\nOwn delivery by translating business and product priorities into a realistic roadmap, and be accountable for the team shipping and operating what it builds.\nPartner cross-functionally with product management, hardware/domain experts, and other engineering teams to align priorities.\nMaintain enough hands-on technical depth to make credible architecture and hiring decisions; this is not a purely process-oriented PM role.\nDrive a healthy on-call and reliability culture where the team owns what it ships in production, not just at merge time.\nQualifications\n7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years directly managing engineers.\nDemonstrated technical credibility, with the ability to review a design document or dig into an incident—not just run standups.\nExperience building or scaling data-intensive or cloud platform systems.\nExperience integrating AI-assisted engineering practices into a team's workflow, including tooling adoption beyond individual use.\nStrong track record of hiring and developing engineers.\nPersonal background building software as a core product—at a software product company, R&D lab, or technology-first organization—rather than internal IT, retail/e-commerce technology operations, or IT services/consulting shops that primarily implement or customize other companies' software.\nNice to Have\nA public GitHub or similar portfolio showcasing personal or past project work is a strong plus.\nExperience managing both backend/platform and mobile engineers.\nBackground in IoT, sensor data, or a regulated or hardware-adjacent industry.\nExperience scaling a team through significant headcount or scope growth.\n\nThe base salary range for this full-time position is $200K to $215K. Our total compensation packages includes base salary, bonus eligibility, and equity. Your base salary range and title will be determined based on the location, experience, qualification, skills, knowledge, level, and pay of employees in similar positions.\n\nWe offer a comprehensive benefit package including:\n\nMedical, Dental, and Vision insurance\nFlexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) plans\nLife, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability Insurance\nPaid Time Off and Paid Holidays\nEmployee Referral Program\n401K\nSocial events (summer picnic, holiday party, team lunches, etc.)\nOn-site Health & Wellness programs (fitness challenges, outdoor bootcamp, flu-shots, etc.)\n\nAbout Picarro:\n\nWe are the world's leader in timely, trusted, and actionable data using enhanced optical spectroscopy. Our solutions are used in a wide variety of applications, including natural gas leak detection, ethylene oxide emissions monitoring, semiconductor fabrication, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, atmospheric science, air quality, greenhouse gas measurements, food safety, hydrology, ecology, and more. Our software and hardware are designed and manufactured in Santa Clara, California and are used in over 90 countries worldwide based on over 65 patents related to cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) technology and are unparalleled in their precision, ease of use, and reliability.\n\nAt Picarro, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, gender identity, social orientation, or disability. Posted positions are not open to third-party recruiters/agencies, and unsolicited resume submissions will be considered free referrals.\n\nAt Picarro, we strive to ensure that all individuals, regardless of their abilities, have equal opportunities. If you are an individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, please contact Picarro, Inc. at disabilityassistance@picarro.com for assistance.","company":"Picarro","rawCompany":"picarro","city":"San Jose","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-23T08:15:53.657Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"11-3021.00","title":"Computer and Information Systems Managers","slug":"computer-and-information-systems-managers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Engineering Manager - Cloud Software, Data Platform & AI-Agentic Product Engineering","description":"Software Engineering Manager\n\nCloud Software, Data Platform & AI-Agentic Product Engineering\n\nThe Software Engineering Manager leads a team of engineers building Picarro's cloud software, data platform, and AI-agentic product engineering capabilities. This is a hybrid technical and people-leadership role, expected to stay close to architecture and technical decisions—not just manage process—while building and growing a high-ownership engineering team.\n\nResponsibilities\nManage and grow a team of product/software engineers, and potentially mobile engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and career development.\nSet technical direction jointly with senior ICs for the team's systems, including architecture reviews, major design decisions, and technical tradeoffs.\nChampion and evolve the team's product-engineering-driven, AI-assisted development practices, including prototype-first development, fast iteration, and engineers owning production reliability.\nOwn delivery by translating business and product priorities into a realistic roadmap, and be accountable for the team shipping and operating what it builds.\nPartner cross-functionally with product management, hardware/domain experts, and other engineering teams to align priorities.\nMaintain enough hands-on technical depth to make credible architecture and hiring decisions; this is not a purely process-oriented PM role.\nDrive a healthy on-call and reliability culture where the team owns what it ships in production, not just at merge time.\nQualifications\n7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years directly managing engineers.\nDemonstrated technical credibility, with the ability to review a design document or dig into an incident—not just run standups.\nExperience building or scaling data-intensive or cloud platform systems.\nExperience integrating AI-assisted engineering practices into a team's workflow, including tooling adoption beyond individual use.\nStrong track record of hiring and developing engineers.\nPersonal background building software as a core product—at a software product company, R&D lab, or technology-first organization—rather than internal IT, retail/e-commerce technology operations, or IT services/consulting shops that primarily implement or customize other companies' software.\nNice to Have\nA public GitHub or similar portfolio showcasing personal or past project work is a strong plus.\nExperience managing both backend/platform and mobile engineers.\nBackground in IoT, sensor data, or a regulated or hardware-adjacent industry.\nExperience scaling a team through significant headcount or scope growth.\n\nThe base salary range for this full-time position is $200K to $215K. Our total compensation packages includes base salary, bonus eligibility, and equity. Your base salary range and title will be determined based on the location, experience, qualification, skills, knowledge, level, and pay of employees in similar positions.\n\nWe offer a comprehensive benefit package including:\n\nMedical, Dental, and Vision insurance\nFlexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) plans\nLife, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability Insurance\nPaid Time Off and Paid Holidays\nEmployee Referral Program\n401K\nSocial events (summer picnic, holiday party, team lunches, etc.)\nOn-site Health & Wellness programs (fitness challenges, outdoor bootcamp, flu-shots, etc.)\n\nAbout Picarro:\n\nWe are the world's leader in timely, trusted, and actionable data using enhanced optical spectroscopy. Our solutions are used in a wide variety of applications, including natural gas leak detection, ethylene oxide emissions monitoring, semiconductor fabrication, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, atmospheric science, air quality, greenhouse gas measurements, food safety, hydrology, ecology, and more. Our software and hardware are designed and manufactured in Santa Clara, California and are used in over 90 countries worldwide based on over 65 patents related to cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) technology and are unparalleled in their precision, ease of use, and reliability.\n\nAt Picarro, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, gender identity, social orientation, or disability. Posted positions are not open to third-party recruiters/agencies, and unsolicited resume submissions will be considered free referrals.\n\nAt Picarro, we strive to ensure that all individuals, regardless of their abilities, have equal opportunities. If you are an individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, please contact Picarro, Inc. at disabilityassistance@picarro.com for assistance.","datePosted":"2026-08-23T08:15:53.657Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T08:15:53.657Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Picarro","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"San Jose","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"8b20bc448d04b113dbf4476c"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8b20bc448d04b113dbf4476c"}}