--- title: 'Software Engineering Manager (Core Workspaces) at Coder' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineering-manager-core-workspaces-coder-united-states-c6vrk6bt8x94' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Software Engineering Manager (Core Workspaces) at Coder - **Company:** Coder - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $136k–$209k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/coder/0d951b83-8763-4f9e-81f3-9f44af680b65 ## Job description As an Engineering Manager on Coder’s Core Workspaces team, you’ll lead engineers building and evolving the systems behind our agentic development experience. You’ll help make agents more capable, reliable, and useful across real development environments. You’ll guide technical direction while growing the team and keeping execution sharp. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, and Design across the agent harness, integrations, and developer workflows. ## What you’ll do here - Lead and grow a team within our Workspaces organization. - Set technical direction across the agent harness, integrations, and workflows. - Stay close to the code and contribute to architecture and implementation decisions. - Evolve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long-running workflows. - Extend our provider-agnostic architecture as models and capabilities change. - Partner with Product and Design to turn agent capabilities into useful developer experiences. - Improve reliability, performance, and operability across agentic systems. - Coach engineers, raise the technical bar, and create clarity around priorities and tradeoffs. ## What we’re looking for - Experience managing and growing software engineering teams. - Strong hands-on engineering experience with React and TypeScript. - Experience with Go. - Hands-on experience building systems around LLMs and agentic workflows. - Experience with model APIs, tool calling, context management, or agent loops. - Strong distributed systems knowledge. - Working knowledge of AWS. - Strong technical judgment and comfort working through ambiguity. - A track record of helping engineers grow while maintaining a high execution bar. Bonus tacos if you have - Experience building coding agents, developer tools, or cloud development environments. - Experience with MCP, agent tools, or multi-agent systems. - Experience with remote execution, sandboxing, or isolated compute. - Experience building abstractions across multiple model providers. - Deep experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, or Linux. - Open-source contributions or experience working directly with customers. Our tech stack - Backend: Go, Postgres - Frontend: TypeScript, React - Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes - Observability: Prometheus, Grafana - CI/CD: GitHub Actions Coder’s agentic architecture is provider-agnostic. The foundation is built; this team is focused on making it more capable, reliable, and extensible as the space evolves. ## ABOUT CODER Coder is the leading platform for AI development Infrastructure, enabling enterprises to securely run human and AI-driven development workflows in consistent, governed environments. Coder provides self-hosted, agent-ready workspaces that unify developer productivity and platform governance. With Coder, enterprises can confidently evolve from human-only development to AI-assisted and autonomous workflows, without sacrificing security, compliance, or performance. Learn more at coder.com http://coder.com. ## INTERVIEW PROCESS We believe that the interview process should be transparent, consistent, and enjoyable. We value your time and hope to complete the interview process in two to four weeks, if schedules allow. Through your interviews, you will meet a mix of individual contributors, managers, and senior leaders. ## AI USE DURING THE INTERVIEW PROCESS As an AI company, Coder embraces the use of AI tools, and we want to be transparent about our expectations as you navigate our interview process. Not permitted: Using AI assistance during conversational interviews. Permitted: Using AI tooling for take-home assessments. Please flag where and to what extent it was used in your take-home. Your submission will not be penalized for using AI as long as it is done honestly. ## OUR USE OF AI IN HIRING We use AI tools to help manage our recruitment process efficiently and fairly. Specifically: - Ashby helps us review inbound applications by surfacing candidates who best match the role requirements we've defined. This tool does not make hiring decisions; it helps our team prioritize which applications to review first. - Granola takes notes during our interview calls so our team can focus on the conversation with you. All hiring decisions are made by humans. Our team reviews applications, conducts interviews, and makes final selections. AI tools assist us but never replace human judgment, and these practices are conducted in compliance with applicable data protection, AI governance, and labor laws. Your data is not used to train AI models. In accordance with New York City Local Law 144, an independent bias audit has been conducted on "Automated Employment Decision Tools"; results are available for Ashby https://www.ashbyhq.com/downloadables/ashby-bias-audit-08-2024.pdf. If you're applying for a role at Coder and have questions about how we use AI in our process, or if you'd like to request information about the data we collect, please contact careers@coder.com. ## CODER IS A PROUD EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. ## About Coder ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Coder provides a self-hosted platform for cloud development environments and AI coding agents, enabling secure, scalable, and governed software development. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $90M raised April 2026) - **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States - **Founded**: 2017 - **Founders**: Kyle Carberry (Co-founder & CTO) and Ammar Bandukwala (Co-founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI software development infrastructure and governance - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise, financial services, government/defense, and large tech innovators - **Mission or purpose**: “Accelerating the world’s transition to secure, self-hosted cloud development” and “Making agentic AI a safe, trusted, and integral part of every software development lifecycle.” ## Products & Services - **Coder Workspaces**: Self-hosted, cloud-based development environments defined as code with Terraform. Supports any OS, IDE (VS Code, JetBrains, Jupyter), language, and infrastructure (VMs, Kubernetes). [coder.com](https://coder.com/) - **Coder Agents**: Infrastructure for running AI coding agents in parallel with developers inside secure, governed, self-hosted environments. [coder.com](https://coder.com/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $172.8M; latest round – $90M Series C in April 2026 led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coderhq) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: KKR, Georgian, Notable Capital, Uncork Capital, Redpoint - **Growth Signals**: 143 employees (+80.5% YoY); 13,883 LinkedIn followers (+60.9% YoY); 27 active job postings (+170% YoY); annual recurring revenue estimated at $5.9M (from public LinkedIn financial data). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coderhq) ## Competitive Advantages - **Fully self-hosted** – runs on-premises or in any cloud, including air-gapped environments for government/defense. - **Open source & extensible** – platform is built on Terraform and open standards. - **AI agent governance** – provides boundaries, policies, and access control for coding agents without exposing sensitive systems. - **Compliance-ready** – supports GDPR, DORA, and is deployable at all classification levels. - **Developer-first** – supports all major IDEs and tools, low latency for global teams. ## Strategic Focus - Scaling the governance and security layer for AI coding agents. - Expanding enterprise adoption in regulated industries (financial services, government). - Growing platform teams through self-hosted development environment standardization. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-first culture** with offices in Austin, San Francisco, and London. [coder.com/careers](https://coder.com/careers) - **Equity for all employees** – every employee becomes a co-owner. - **Perks**: $150/month learning stipend, 4% 401(k) match (US), 4-week paid sabbatical every 5 years, 16 weeks parental leave (birthing) / 8 weeks (non-birthing), unlimited PTO, MacBook and home office setup allowance. - **Fertility benefits** through Carrot ($15k lifetime stipend). - **Flexible schedules** and regular team events including annual company offsite. - **Talent network** for future opportunities if no current role fits. - Culture rating: 4.4/5.0 (49 reviews) on LinkedIn emphasizing work-life balance (4.6) and compensation (4.4). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coderhq) ## Sources 1. [coder.com](https://coder.com/) 2. [coder.com/about](https://coder.com/about) 3. [coder.com/careers](https://coder.com/careers) 4. 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