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Engineering Manager, SDKs

United States, New York 210000.00 - 255000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 20, 2026
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You'll lead product development for our SDK generator, a 'compiler' from OpenAPI specs to idiomatic wrapper libraries in various languages for customers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare. You'll be one of 2 engineering leaders overseeing Stainless Engineering and will manage 6-12 engineers. This role reports to the CEO and is onsite at our office in Manhattan.

Job Responsibility

  • Support engineers in shipping new SDK generator features quickly and achieving high level of technical quality
  • Hold our bar of 'what library would an expert in the language create if they had infinite time'
  • Oversee development of new SDK generators for e.g., C#, PHP, Rust, Swift, Elixir, etc.
  • Drive our core 'compiler' design to support many programming languages, library features, and edge cases
  • Scale our SDK build platform to manage hundreds of concurrent customer builds
  • Partner with OpenAI, Anthropic, et al on the design of future APIs and their optimal support in SDKs
  • Act as editor-in-chief of our technical documentation
  • Mentor high-slope engineers toward rapid career growth
  • Source, interview, and close some of the best engineers you've ever worked with

Requirements

  • Managed a high-performing engineering team in an early- or growth-stage startup
  • Hands-on and deeply technical
  • Personally recruited engineers to join a team you manage
  • 2+ years of engineering management experience and have managed more than one team
  • Worked on libraries, for example building a popular open source project or designing internal abstractions used across a company
  • Interested in growing your management skills as the team scales over the next 2 years
  • Started something before: a business, a club, a nonprofit, a student org
  • anything that shows you're a builder at heart

What we offer

  • Competitive salary and generous equity grants
  • Great healthcare coverage options (e.g., fully covered platinum plans)
  • Paid commuter benefits & similar
  • Paid team lunch/meals during workdays
  • Flexible PTO plus 3 weeks of company-wide vacation a year (2 weeks in December, 1 week at the end of the summer)
  • Flexible WFH and 1 month fully remote per year ('remote February')
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