Autostore
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Supervisory Control Platform Team
Atlanta, USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago
Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentCloud PlatformsCI/CDDevOpsLogisticsProcess ImprovementRoboticsControlsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- This opportunity has arisen due to the expansion of our software engineering organization.
- This is a senior people leadership role in our engineering organization, with the title of Senior Software Engineering Manager, Supervisory Control Platform.
- This role is accountable for software delivery execution, team leadership, engineering process maturity, and cross-functional alignment for the platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and team leads
- build a high-performing team culture with clear ownership, accountability, and growth plans.
- Own delivery planning, prioritization, execution tracking, and risk management across platform initiatives, ensuring commitments are realistic, visible, and delivered with quality.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Controls, QA, DevOps, and customer-facing teams to align roadmap priorities, dependencies, integration plans, and delivery milestones.
- Oversee software design, development, and execution for the AutoStore platform, ensuring scalable architecture, clear engineering ownership, and alignment with product and customer deployment needs.
- Lead execution for secure, reliable, and observable connectivity between on-premise warehouse systems and cloud-based platform services, including integration, deployment, and operational readiness considerations.
- Work closely with architects and senior engineers to ensure technical direction, design decisions, and engineering standards are understood, planned, and executed effectively by the teams.
- Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and team leads; build a high-performing team culture with clear ownership, accountability, and growth plans.
- We have more than 1600 systems in nearly 60 countries, and we grow continuously as a community of employees, partners, customers, suppliers, and connected technologies.
Requirements
- At least 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in a software development management or engineering leadership role.
- Proven experience managing software teams responsible for complex platform, middleware, distributed systems, or operational software delivery.
- Strong track record in execution management, delivery planning, dependency management, engineering process improvement, and stakeholder communication.
- Ability to balance technical depth, people leadership, execution discipline, and business priorities in a fast-paced engineering environment.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience leading teams that deliver APIs, integration contracts, backend services, or platform capabilities across independently owned systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms and hybrid architecture, including secure connectivity between on-premise systems and cloud services, is required.
Nice to have
- Warehouse automation / robotics / intralogistics background (WES/WMS/WCS, AutoStore, ASRS, or comparable).
- Experience managing teams working across independently owned software and control-system components.
- Track record improving team execution, engineering processes, delivery predictability, and release quality at scale.
- Warehouse logistics, automation, or intralogistics domain experience (ideally with 2-3 years of relevant exposure).
- Experience leading teams using modern programming languages, platforms, and engineering practices relevant to control systems, orchestration layers, middleware, or large-scale backend services.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
- Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Strategic thinking with a bias toward action and results.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
- Generous Paid Time Off including 12 holidays, paid exercise time, paid volunteer time, and paid parental leave plans for all new parents
- Retirement 401(k) plan with employer match and discretionary profit sharing contribution
- Educational assistance and professional development programs, including mentorship/coaching programs with external industry leaders
- Additional benefits include Group Life Insurance, Voluntary Additional Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance programs, and more!
- AutoStore™ holds a simple yet powerful vision: to store and move things for everyone, everywhere.
Company info
- Join us in our mission to store and move things for everyone, everywhere.
- Founded in Norway, we've grown into a global technology company.
Visa & Work Authorization
- that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy-related condition
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