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About the Role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to own engineering end-to-end, including architecture decisions, hiring, shipping cadence, and team culture. This hands-on technical leader will scale the team from approximately 5 to 20+ engineers within the next 12 months while ensuring the product is world-class.

Responsibilities

• Own all engineering output: product quality, velocity, reliability, and security.
• Build the engineering team from current size to 15–20 in 12 months.
• Personally involved in every hire.
• Set and enforce a shipping culture — weekly demos, continuous deployment, minimal process overhead.
• Partner directly with the CEO on product direction, prioritization, and customer-facing technical conversations.
• Architect and evolve the platform (LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, compliance automation) for enterprise scale.
• Establish lightweight but real engineering practices: CI/CD, observability, on-call, code review standards.

Requirements

• Builder first, manager second; must be able to be the strongest engineer on the team.
• Possess Founder DNA with prior experience as a technical founder or very early engineering leader at a startup.
• Proven ability to scale a team from small to 20+ engineers, hiring 10–20 engineers in a compressed timeline without lowering the bar.
• AI-native mindset with active building experience with LLMs, agents, tool-use, and orchestration frameworks.
• Understand prompt engineering, evaluation, context window management, and the difference between demo-ware and production-grade AI systems.
• Shipping velocity as a core value; measure engineering health by production deployments.
• Deep technical focus, not a mezzanine leader; debug production issues and explain architecture tradeoffs.
• Founded or co-founded a technical startup.
• Scaled an eng team through a Series A/B at a product-led company.
• Shipped AI/ML products to production.
• Deep in the Bay Area engineering community.
• Background in security, infrastructure, or enterprise SaaS is a plus.
• Operated in a domain where correctness matters (fintech, security, health, compliance).
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• At least 3 years in a technical leadership or founding engineering role at a product-led company.
• Demonstrated experience scaling an engineering team from small to 20+ engineers.
• Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain senior technical talent.
• Deep, hands-on experience shipping AI/ML or agentic systems to production at enterprise scale.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Skills

• LLM orchestration
• Agentic workflows
• Compliance automation
• CI/CD
• Observability
• On-call
• Code review
• Prompt engineering
• Evaluation
• Context window management
• AI/ML
• Agentic systems

Location

• Bay Area

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Technical leadership
• Founding engineering role
• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years in a technical leadership or founding engineering role

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive cash
• Significant equity

About the Company

• Zania is building AI agents for enterprise governance, risk, and compliance teams to execute complex workflows with full explainability.
• Series A, $18M raised from NEA, Anthropic, and Menlo Ventures.
• Founded by a former founding security engineer at Airbnb and builder of Microsoft Security Copilot.
• We're not building another dashboard — we're replacing entire workflows with agents that do the work.