A Little About Us
We are a high-impact team within the CTO organization, dedicated to accelerating outcomes for internal development teams. We own the entire CI/CD and artifact ecosystem, leading the platform work, automation, governance, and long-term service ownership. Our mission is centered on critical platform modernization and moving to a product-first operating model that emphasizes clear "golden paths," measurable Developer Experience (DX) outcomes, and continuous evolution. To achieve this, we champion a high-ownership culture with strong engineering fundamentals (reliability, observability, testing), drive an AI/agentic automation strategy to reduce toil at scale, and define governance in partnership with Security to ensure developer velocity.
A Lot About You
We’re hiring an Sr. Engineering Manager to lead a 2-pizza team responsible for two company-critical platform initiatives to be completed in 2026:
CI/CD modernization: migrate ~30,000 pipelines to GitHub Actions, and ensure all new repos/apps default to GitHub Actions with the right governance, templates, and paved paths
Artifact platform modernization: migrate our on‑prem JFrog stack to JFrog Cloud with changes that are as fast and transparent as possible for development teams
We’re moving to a product-first model: clear “golden paths,” measurable DX outcomes, service ownership, and continuous evolution. This team will own Artifactory as a long-term product/service, not a one-time project.
This role has no expectation of hands-on coding but you are technically fluent enough to guide architecture, drive crisp execution, and make tradeoffs with Infrastructure and Security partners.
What you’ll do
Lead the team and build a product-first platform culture
Lead, coach, and grow the across CI/CD platform work, automation, governance, and artifact management
Establish a product operating model: customer discovery with internal dev teams, roadmap prioritization, success metrics, and ongoing iteration.
Create a high-ownership culture with strong engineering fundamentals: reliability, observability, testing, rollout discipline, and crisp incident learnings.
Own the GitHub Actions migration program
Deliver a migration plan that can succeed at scale (~30,000 pipelines) with multiple execution modes depending on repo needs
Build a “migration factory” operating model: segmentation, throughput targets, exception handling queues, escalation paths, and rollbacks
Ensure all new repos/apps start on GitHub Actions via strong “paved roads”
Drive an AI/agentic automation strategy to reduce toil and accelerate outcomes
Lead delivery of agentic AI automation that can generate, migrate, validate, and maintain CI/CD workflows at scale.
Define quality and safety guardrails for AI-driven changes: staged rollouts, test/CI validation gates, policy checks, regression suites, and human-in-the-loop escalation for edge cases.
Make the system measurable: track automation success rates, defect leakage, rollback rates, and the “exception profile” over time to drive continuous improvement.
Own Artifactory as a long-term service
Lead the end-to-end migration from a single on‑prem instance (with homegrown caching layers) to JFrog Cloud
Simplify and standardize the artifact platform experience
Own the service “day 2”: SLIs/SLOs, incident response posture, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and ongoing product evolution.
Define governance and integrations across the CI/CD + artifact ecosystem
Partner with Security to implement pragmatic controls without blocking developer velocity
Own cost outcomes for SaaS
What success looks like
100% pipeline migration by end of year, with clear burn-down reporting and minimal disruption to app teams
All new repos/apps on GitHub Actions by default using approved templates and reusable workflows
A sustainable migration/maintenance operating model
JFrog Cloud migration completed by end of year, with improved performance, simplified permissions, consistent layout, and a clear long-term service ownership model
Reduced support burden and faster developer outcomes
Minimum qualifications
Comfort leading AI-enabled platform initiatives with a safety + reliability mindset (quality gates, staged rollout, measurement)
Engineering management experience leading platform/devex/reliability/tooling teams with measurable outcomes
Proven ability to deliver large, cross-team programs under hard deadlines (migrations, standardization, platform transitions)
Experience owning a long-lived internal service/product (SLAs/SLOs, incident posture, roadmap, customer feedback loops)
Strong stakeholder management across Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, and Finance/Procurement
Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
Preferred qualifications
Understanding of artifact management and release workflows; Artifactory/JFrog experience strongly preferred
CI/CD fundamentals and experience guiding modern pipeline strategy (GitHub Actions experience strongly preferred)
The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.
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The compensation for this position ranges from $143,625.00 - $299,375.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.