Senior Software Engineering Manager (m/f/x)

You will be responsible for balancing project demands with a long-term focus on team development, hiring, and individual growth. Success in this role means ensuring technical excellence, driving alignment, and cultivating an autonomous, high-trust team environment.

• Provide senior-level mentorship and coaching to team leads and engineers. Foster a high-performance culture with a balanced, empathetic approach to performance management, career growth, and employee satisfaction.
• Effectively manage and harmonize the output of distributed teams, ensuring clear communication, goal alignment, and a unified engineering standard across all projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to oversee the technical roadmap, resource allocation, and execution across multiple concurrent engineering projects, ensuring delivery meets quality, scale, and timeline targets.
• Partner with architects and Principal Engineers to champion technical excellence, ensuring engineering solutions align with Dynatrace’s modern, cloud-native technology stack.
• Proactively drive recruiting strategy, hiring, and onboarding of top-tier engineering talent to scale teams effectively and efficiently.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on building scalable, enterprise-grade systems.
• 3+ years of experience managing managers and/or multiple engineering teams, demonstrating seniority in people leadership.
• Proven expertise in leading distributed or geographically separate teams, with success in remote collaboration and communication.
• Solid understanding of modern cloud-native architectures (e.g., Kubernetes, Microservices, CI/CD pipelines).
• Demonstrable experience in performance management, career planning, and implementing team development strategies that foster high engagement and low turnover.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical and organizational concepts to diverse audiences.

Preferred Skills

• Deep understanding of Kubernetes principles and cloud-native orchestration.
• Experience in the Observability or DevOps space (e.g., APM, Logging, Tracing, Monitoring).
• Familiarity with operating high-scale SaaS products and maintaining team ownership.
• Experience with modern programming languages relevant to our platform (e.g., Java, Go, Python, C++).

• Base salary between 25,000- 33,000 PLN gross per month (we’ve listed a salary range for transparency, but if your experience and skills bring unique value, we’d still love to hear from you; please apply even if you’re outside the range).
• Attractive compensation packages, stock purchase options, and a wide range of benefits.
• Permanent employment contract (UoP) only
• Hybrid working setup with 3 days/week in the office.

Dynatrace provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We actively foster an inclusive workplace that celebrates differences and promotes accessibility, collaboration, and growth for all.