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We work to redesign the systems and structures we all depend on - how we learn, live, govern, and solve problems - so that they are just, equitable, resilient, and rooted in shared responsibility. By strengthening the ties that hold communities together, we aim for civic life defined by collective action and care, with effective leadership that truly represents everyone.\nWe are a collaborative, curious, and creative team of organizers, scientists, teachers, technologists, campaign veterans, and more who share the unwavering belief that we can use our gifts in service of transforming America - together.\nWe've built our team guided by the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And so we support each other relentlessly - rallying together to face challenges the same way we celebrate each other's wins.\nAbout the Position\nDo you see yourself as a mission-driven Senior Manager, Software Engineering who believes that great products emerge from strong teams? Do you have a curiosity and passion for bringing related areas together and coaching people of different backgrounds and technical expertise into a cohesive, collaborative team? Do you thrive in inclusive, thoughtful environments where engineers hold themselves to high standards of technical excellence, ownership, and impact at scale?\nThe Murmuration Engineering Team is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Software Engineering to grow and develop the multidisciplinary team (DevOps, App Security, SRE, and FinOps) that builds and maintains the shared systems that all of our teams depend on. Your guidance and influence on this team will raise the bar across the engineering organization.\nMurmuration builds technology that helps our partner organizations strengthen civic engagement and organize more effectively in their communities. Our products weave together engagement, outreach, demographic, and voter data into intuitive applications that help partners better understand and act within the communities they serve. Our team is intentionally multidisciplinary and partner-focused. We succeed together by aligning planning, execution, and learning across engineering, product, design, research, data, and partner success. We build complex, data-driven systems that need to work reliably during critical moments, scale as our partners grow, and remain understandable and maintainable as communities and their needs evolve.\nAs a Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you'll join the Platform Team to support both production and prototype applications and the services they're built upon. You'll coach and grow a small, cross-discipline team that owns the outcomes for the org's build/deploy/run systems, with accountability for other teams' ability to ship fast, safely, and reliably. The team’s disciplines span DevOps, App Security, SRE, and FinOps domains.\nYour leadership actively shapes the team's operating model, evolving it to serve the Engineering organization's current and future needs. Your strategic thinking turns vision into sequenced deliverables and adapts as priorities shift without losing sight of where the team is headed. Your commitment to high-quality documentation improves knowledge sharing, onboarding, and long-term product maintainability across Murmuration.\nYour ability to work across engineering teams, understanding their goals and shaping the org's engineering roadmap around them, is key to making the Platform Team successful.\nThis role suits a deeply experienced Senior Manager, Software Engineering who can evaluate where we are today, absorb shifts in direction, and keep us on track. Your commitment to building inclusive, high-trust, high-performing teams is visible across the technology organization. And you believe, as we do, that how we build is just as important as what we build.\nJob Level: M4\nDrive & Model\nShape technical strategy for the team: Build an engineering roadmap that keeps the team focused on big-picture objectives and that reflects tradeoffs among competing priorities, dependencies, and complexities across DevOps, App Security, SRE, and FinOps. Propose clear recommendations and plans, and present well-reasoned documentation of tradeoffs and alternatives.\nManage technical debt and process health: Maintain a steady cadence of debt paydown, prioritizing which debt to tackle and communicating the reasoning behind those choices. Own the schedule of dependency and application updates so end-of-life deadlines are handled proactively rather than as last-minute fire drills.\nDeliver production-ready platforms: Own the platforms and tooling that give other teams a stable, observable foundation of reliability, performance, and operational excellence so they can focus on building and testing their own applications on top of it.\nStrengthen application security: Introspect codebases to identify vulnerabilities early, and own data privacy and access control as first-class concerns; deliver solutions that support secure coding practices across the org without owning how other teams write their code.\nEnable FinOps visibility: Build and own the single panes of glass that give engineering leadership and the C-suite a clear, trusted view of cloud and infrastructure costs, supporting both short-term budget decisions and long-term cost strategy.\nArchitect for the long term: Design and build systems and architectures that will serve Murmuration for years with scale, reliability, security, and maintainability as first-class concerns.\nElevate the Team\nCoach and empower emerging leaders: Coach leaders to lead at every level: Within their own teams, as good, collaborative, and experienced peers, and through mentoring ICs around them.\nResolve ambiguity: Actively shape and bring structure and clarity (not perfection) to specs.\nListen and elevate: Stay closely attuned to how other teams approach test strategy, code quality, and system design, and use that insight to ensure that what our team builds and delivers elevates their developer journey.\nBe like Ted Lasso: Believe, coach the whole team, build trust, and demonstrate kindness, empathy, optimism, curiosity, and vulnerability.\nLead Beyond Platform\nLead beyond the Platform team: Own objectives that span multiple teams and align with division and organizational goals.\nBe the voice: Lead with ownership and accountability on behalf of DevOps, App Security, SRE, and FinOps; seek opportunities to add clarity, make high-quality recommendations, and be a decision-maker in discussions with product and leadership.\nIdentify risk: Identify, document, and follow-up in a timely manner on vulnerabilities and operational risk across the full platform, including applications built by other teams.\nLead incident response: Involve the right people across DevOps, App Security, SRE and FinOps, lead the response, conduct root cause analysis, and follow through until learnings are shared, incorporated, and remediation is complete.\nBuild with Vision\nBuild one internal engineering system, not four Platform teams: Treat DevOps, App Security, SRE, and FinOps as interdependent subsystems where the outcome depends on how well they integrate, not how well each performs alone.\nPresent a cohesive voice and narrative externally: Lead with expertise and a cohesive single voice about the Platform Team’s mission and deliverables to our peer teams.\nBe curious about people, not just systems: Identify opportunities to foster curiosity and ease communication between people who come from different backgrounds, experiences, and technical lenses.\nUse AI to amplify: Surface risks and gaps that manual review would miss, and measure team progress together towards shared goals.\nRequirements\nTechnical Depth and Judgement\nDeep, hands-on expertise across DevOps and SRE: Your direct prior experience informs your approach to prioritizing competing work, communicating tradeoffs clearly, and explaining how a decision in DevOps, SRE, AppSec, or FinOps supports the organization as a whole.\nSound judgment under imperfect information: Make tradeoff calls to generate clarity in ambiguous situations.\nCommunicates effectively: Explain to non-technical leadership why an architecture decision is sound without needing the original author in the room.\nChampions team decisions: Advocate for the team's technical decisions to peers, product, and 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