Senior Software Engineering Manager (m/f/x)

Your role at Dynatrace

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple high-impact engineering teams. This role requires proven seniority in people leadership and a strong technical background to effectively guide strategic growth and execution.

You will be responsible for balancing project demands with a long-term focus on team development, hiring, and individual growth. Success in this role means ensuring technical excellence, driving alignment, and cultivating an autonomous, high-trust team environment.

 

• Provide senior-level mentorship and coaching to team leads and engineers. Foster a high-performance culture with a balanced, empathetic approach to performance management, career growth, and employee satisfaction.

• Effectively manage and harmonize the output of distributed teams, ensuring clear communication, goal alignment, and a unified engineering standard across all projects.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to oversee the technical roadmap, resource allocation, and execution across multiple concurrent engineering projects, ensuring delivery meets quality, scale, and timeline targets.

• Partner with architects and Principal Engineers to champion technical excellence, ensuring engineering solutions align with Dynatrace’s modern, cloud-native technology stack.

• Proactively drive recruiting strategy, hiring, and onboarding of top-tier engineering talent to scale teams effectively and efficiently.

What will help you succeed

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on building scalable, enterprise-grade systems.

• 3+ years of experience managing managers and/or multiple engineering teams, demonstrating seniority in people leadership.

• Proven expertise in leading distributed or geographically separate teams, with success in remote collaboration and communication.

• Solid understanding of modern cloud-native architectures (e.g., Kubernetes, Microservices, CI/CD pipelines).

• Demonstrable experience in performance management, career planning, and implementing team development strategies that foster high engagement and low turnover.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical and organizational concepts to diverse audiences.

Preferred Skills

• Deep understanding of Kubernetes principles and cloud-native orchestration.

• Experience in the Observability or DevOps space (e.g., APM, Logging, Tracing, Monitoring).

• Familiarity with operating high-scale SaaS products and maintaining team ownership.

• Experience with modern programming languages relevant to our platform (e.g., Java, Go, Python, C++).

Compensation and Rewards

• Base salary starts at 25,000 PLN gross per month.

• Attractive compensation packages, stock purchase options, and a wide range of benefits.

• Permanent employment contract (UoP) only

• Hybrid working setup with 3 days/week in the office.

Dynatrace is uniquely positioned to help our customers understand their business like never before. We provide end-to-end visibility across infrastructure, from cloud to on-prem, in a fully unified platform so they can see beyond scale and complexity. Our Al-driven insights cut through the noise, allowing customers to focus on what truly matters by automating manual tasks and resolving issues with pinpoint accuracy. Dynatrace offers simplicity, clarity and reliability at scale to ensure teams can make informed decisions, minimize downtime, and drive their business forward with confidence.

We're an equal opportunity employer and embrace all applicants. Dynatrace wants YOU—your diverse background, talents, values, ideas, and expertise. These qualities are what make our global team stronger and more seasoned. We're fueled by the diversity of our talented employees.