Manager, Cloud Software Engineering - 11469

What You'll Do

• Manage and mentor a global team of AI platform DevOps engineers.
• Coordinate delivery with US-based technical leadership across time zones.
• Own sprint planning, delivery cadence, and progress reporting.
• Ensure technical quality through code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering standards.
• Collaborate with the Principal Architect and AI/ML Engineering Lead on technical direction.
• Remove blockers, manage cross-team dependencies, and ensure smooth collaboration.
• Hire, retain and motivate top talent on the team by fostering a culture of innovation, speed, and continuous improvement.
• Define long-term roadmap and drive release planning and execution.

What You Will Bring to Coupa

• Agile team management experience of at least 4 years as Engineering Manager and 10+ years of engineering experience.
• Enterprise AI platform infrastructure development experience, ideally both in leadership and contributor roles.
• Ability to support and mentor both individuals and teams.
• Good functional understanding of enterprise SaaS products.
• Experience building enterprise grade, scalable, cost-efficient, secure AI/ML platforms with a focus on resiliency, automation, observability.
• Deployment and Life cycle Management of LLM & Embedding Models (OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker) and Vector Databases like LanceDB.
• Exposure to evaluation of new products and technologies like RAG, MCP servers, AI Agents, Agentic Workflows, LangChain etc.
• Manage AWS core & AI/GenAI services (S3, IAM, EKS, Bedrock, etc.), Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform).
• A leader who thrives in fast-moving environments, motivates teams, and embraces innovation.
• Experience managing distributed teams across time zones (US-India coordination preferred).
• Strong communication skills across geographies.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.