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Tech Lead Manager – Development

northwoodspace· Engineering
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Torrance, CA$174k - $240kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Tech Lead Manager responsible for owning and improving build, test, and release patterns across Northwood’s software for cloud, FPGA, embedded, DSP, and ground teams. A player-coach role leading internal tooling and developer experience engineers, while contributing hands-on code and guiding sprint delivery, planning, and people management.

Responsibilities

  • Own the build, test, and release frameworks used across Northwood's repos, including the build system, GitLab CI templates, artifact management, and versioning conventions.
  • Provide paved paths like reusable pipelines and build components, with fast checks that fail early before expensive builds and tests.
  • Define the guardrails repo owners work within (minimum pipeline stages, signing, promotion gates) and make the compliant path the easiest path.
  • Partner with domain leads to understand build and release friction, prioritize it on the tooling roadmap, and measure adoption.
  • Own internal software development: intake, prioritization, delivery, and lifecycle of applications Northwood builds for its own use across engineering and business functions.
  • Collaborate across teams, contributing shared frameworks, components, and engineering capacity to support product development and operator workflows.
  • Lead the Development team as a player-coach with sprint planning, design and code reviews, and hands-on contributions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of software or platform engineering experience, including 2+ years leading a team or workstream as a tech lead.
  • Demonstrated ownership of a CI/CD or build framework adopted by multiple teams with different toolchains, including how you drove adoption and what tradeoffs you made.
  • Experience building developer platforms or paved paths for engineering disciplines you weren't part of (e.g., software tooling consumed by firmware, hardware, or data teams).
  • Strong proficiency in at least one systems language (Rust, Go, or C++) and Python.
  • Hands-on experience with GitLab CI or equivalent, container builds, and artifact management.
  • Ability to write clear technical standards and get engineers outside your team to adopt them.
  • Experience delivering internal applications or tools to non-engineering users, including scoping requirements with stakeholders who don't write software.

Skills

Required:CI/CD and build framework ownershipDeveloper toolingSystems programmingPythonGitLab CICommunication of technical standardsInternal applications deliveryTeam leadership
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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