Agentic Engineering Manager
Job description
Please Note: This is a Utah-based hybrid position which will require some regular in-office days each week. Additionally, employment with BambooHR is contingent on passing both a background and credit check.
BambooHR is on a mission to set people free to do great work. Our software powers the HR work that small and mid-sized businesses depend on every day. Across engineering, our teams use AI coding agents as the default way to build: specifying intent, delegating execution to agents, verifying and integrating their output, and codifying best practices so each project compounds.
You'll lead the team that makes this possible for everyone else. Your team owns the Agent SDK — the framework other engineering teams build their agents on — along with the core platform underneath it: a RAG pipeline, a sandboxed environment for running agent-generated code, evaluation frameworks, and observability. The specifications, guardrails, and verification standards your team sets don't just govern your own engineers' work, they become the floor every other agentic engineer at BambooHR builds from.
AI tools and capabilities change rapidly. To stay resilient through change, you prioritize curiosity and continual learning, both for yourself and the team you manage, and you actively push new best practices into how your team specifies, delegates, and verifies work. You are accountable for your team's delivery and for the platform's fitness as the foundation other teams depend on: its correctness, its safety, and its reliability at scale.
You will:
SupervisoryResponsibilities
- Manage 1-2 scrum teams of Software Engineers building the Agent SDK, RAG pipeline, code execution sandbox, evaluations, and observability.
- Set the bar for how your engineers write agent specifications, delegate execution to AI coding agents, and verify agent-produced output, calibrated to the risk and blast radius of platform-level code
- Coordinate engineers steering multiple agents in parallel across concurrent platform workstreams, keeping engineering judgment and ownership intact
- Own the scaffolding your team and its downstream consumers delegate through: SDK conventions, agent instructions, evaluation harnesses, and playbooks, and decide which are worth investing in
Duties/Responsibilities
- Partner with the teams building on your platform to understand their needs and shape the SDK's roadmap, APIs, and guardrails
- Demonstrate leadership and patience through regular coaching and mentoring on agentic craft, in individual and team settings
- Consult with Product Management, UX Designers and Tech Leads to explore and deliver software solutions
- Manage and maintain your team's execution roadmap, including a grooming pipeline and delivery expectations
- Show and maintain accountability in team and individual performance (yours and others) in sprint goals and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
- Participate in department hiring efforts
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement of our systems and processes
- Be a great culture addition and advocate for our company values
What You Need to Get the Job Done
- 10+ years of experience in software development
- 2+ years of real-world, demonstrable technical leadership
- Object-Oriented development experience
- Experience building or operating platform-level engineering teams — internal SDKs, developer platforms, or infrastructure that other teams build on
- Experience managing or working alongside engineers who use AI coding agents as the default way to build production software
- Proficiency in context engineering practices: structuring repo and task context, and setting standards for agent specifications, so agents execute reliably across teams
- Familiarity with core AI agent infrastructure concepts such as RAG, sandboxed code execution, evaluation frameworks, and observability
- Experience in developing Software as a Service
- Version control software, preferably Git
- Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
What Will Make Us REALLY Love You
- Hands-on experience with LLM tooling: RAG pipelines, vector databases, sandboxed/isolated code execution environments, or agent evaluation and observability tooling (e.g., tracing, prompt/response logging, eval harnesses)
- Experience setting verification and security standards for agent-produced code: injection, data-handling, and unsafe generated output
- Knowledge of best practices related to data storage and access at high volume
- MySQL/MSSQL - both query language and database structure/design
What You'll Love About Us
- List Benefits found on Boilerplate SOP
About Us
At BambooHR, we're building something different: we're building a people intelligence platform that transforms HR and sets people free to do great work! We're a proven market leader driving innovation while building lasting success through thoughtful, sustainable growth. Here, you'll find a place that champions growth: both professional and personal, both individual and collective.
We invest in potential, giving you the space to stretch your capabilities and turn good ideas into reality while providing the safety net of a supportive, values-driven culture. Our approach combines meaningful work with meaningful lives, offering competitive benefits, professional development, and the flexibility to thrive both in and outside the office.
What sets us apart isn't just what we do, but how we do it: with openness, integrity, and a shared commitment to doing the right thing. Join us in creating HR software that makes work better for everyone, while we make work better for you.
BambooHR is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process. If you would like to request accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
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Simplify HR with award-winning solutions for everything from hire to retire. We founded BambooHR in 2008 with a mission to set people free to do great work—a mission that continues to guide us today. We empower HR pros, employees, and organizations everywhere to simplify complicated processes and streamline time-consuming tasks, so they can focus on supporting their people, thriving in their roles, and growing their business. People are the key to business success. Employee experience is at the heart of an organization’s success. Business growth and longevity, customer loyalty, employee retention and engagement—all of these depend on creating and delivering an exceptional employee experience. With the help of our cloud-based HR platform, HR pros and leaders can spend more time on people and less time on paperwork. We automate the transactional and help capture the power of people data to boost the impact of strategic HR and help build a thriving work environment. How we succeed matters. Our values inform everything we do at BambooHR—they set the standard for how we communicate and how we act. We’re proud of how our values guide the way we do business and the way we interact with our customers and each other every day. Assume the best: We communicate openly, starting from a place of mutual respect and assuming others have good intentions. We seek to hear other perspectives, understand them, and act out of a desire to do what’s best for the company, our customers, and one another. Be open: Openness and candor lead to efficiency and growth. Being upfront and authentic solves problems faster and enriches relationships, so we strive to give and receive feedback openly. Never wait until tomorrow to say what will make us stronger today. Do the right thing: BambooHR is exceptional, and we must be exceptional to work here. Every day, each of us makes decisions that affect the company, our teammates, and our customers. Our potential to impact each group is enormous. That’s why we must be thoughtful, deliberate, and principled in our decisions—no matter how inconvenient or difficult they are. Enjoy quality of life: We care about doing quality work and showing up for our team and customers, and we make time for our families, friends, and communities. Home life, work life—it’s all life! And we strive to live it well. Grow from good to great: From the very beginning, BambooHR has been determined to create a better business and product, in a better way. We believe in intentional and exceptional growth—for ourselves, our product, and our company—and we’re never satisfied with the status quo. Lead from where you are: As we strive to master how we communicate and how we work, we’re qualified to lead. When we see opportunities to make BambooHR better, we're proactive and use our influence in positive ways—regardless of our position. People follow leaders, not titles. Make it count: We believe making our time here count is how we grow from good to great and enjoy a high quality of life. Hard work and sustained focus got us here, and it’s the only way forward. We go all in, master our craft, and make an impact because we know great work requires great effort.
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