Senior Manager, Engineering

📋 Description

• Own the roadmap: Set priorities across search, LLM routing, evaluation, and agent infrastructure.
• Lead search and retrieval: Own the search stack behind Ontra's AI search, including indexing
• Make AI quality measurable: Drive a shared evaluation approach for search and AI (datasets
• Own security and reliability: Set the bar for tenant isolation, security review, incident response
• Lead agent infrastructure: Shape how Ontra builds, versions, runs, and audits agents and skills on
• Collaborate: Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, DevOps, and domain experts to rapidly

🎯 Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of experience as an individual contributor and 3+ years of technical
• Platform track record: A history of building or leading an ML, AI, or developer platform that other
• LLM and ML systems depth: Hands-on experience with search and LLM applications in production, such
• Engineering foundation: Python, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes
• Agentic systems (preferred): Experience with agent frameworks and runtimes, tool use and MCP
• Judgment: Ability to separate durable foundations from hype and make build-vs-buy calls with

🎁 Benefits

• Twice yearly team offsites for in-person collaboration
• Paid flexible time off policy
• Paid parental leave and benefits
• Employer-supported retirement contributions, varying by country
• Monthly phone and internet reimbursement
• Company-sponsored learning and development resources, department budgets for professional