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Supervisor Software Engineering
General Atomics
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Manager or above
1 week ago
118,500 – 207,750
- Agile
- Devops
- CI/CD
- Jira
- Confluence
- GitLab
1 week ago
Job Summary
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), an affiliate of General Atomics, is a world leader in proven, reliable remotely piloted aircraft and tactical reconnaissance radars, as well as advanced high-resolution surveillance systems.The Software Engineering Manager will lead a team of software engineers while driving improvements in engineering execution, Agile practices, software quality, and delivery processes. This role requires a strong software engineering foundation, excellent people leadership skills, and the ability to improve how teams plan, develop, test, and deliver software.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
People Leadership
- Hire, mentor, coach, and develop software engineers.
- Support career growth and provide technical and professional guidance.
- Build a high-performing engineering team.
- Establish engineering best practices and a culture of continuous improvement.
- Lead Agile execution and support PI Planning activities.
- Improve predictability of software delivery.
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies and execution risks.
- Remove process and technical blockers affecting delivery.
- Improve SDLC practices and engineering workflows.
- Partner with DevOps to improve software development, testing, and release processes.
- Define and improve testing strategies.
- Coordinate release readiness activities.
- Improve engineering quality metrics.
- Support build validation and integration processes.
- Maintain enough technical depth to understand software architecture, development practices, source control, builds, CI/CD concepts, and containerized application environments.
- Partner with architects, senior engineers, and DevOps teams.
- Help teams make effective technical decisions and improve engineering effectiveness.
Job Qualifications
- Typically requires education or formal training equivalent to the completion of a Bachelors degree in Software Engineering or related discipline and six or more years progressively complex experience. Additional professional experience may be substituted in lieu of education.
- Experience leading software engineering teams or serving as a technical leader.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies; SAFe and PI Planning experience preferred.
- Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle.
- Experience improving software delivery processes and engineering practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts, source control, branching strategies, automated testing, and containerized software environments.
- Experience with tools such as Jira, confluence, and GitLab.
- Strong communication, coaching, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance is required.
- Previous experience as a Software Engineer, Senior SDET, Systems Engineer, or Technical Lead.
- Experience managing teams developing containerized applications.
- Experience defining engineering metrics and operational KPIs.
- Experience driving continuous improvement within software engineering organizations.
- Internal Title: Software Engineering Manager II
- Experience Level: Management
- Full-Time/Part-Time: Full-Time Salary
- Workstyle: Onsite
- Pay Range Low: 118,500
- Pay Range High: 207,750
- Job Category: Engineering
- Travel Percentage Required: 0% - 25%
- Relocation Assistance Provided?: No
- Clearance Required?: Desired
- US Citizenship Required?: Yes
- Clearance Level: Secret
- Employee Referral Bonus Amount: 1000.00
Supervisor Software Engineering · General Atomics