Engineering Manager, Agent Orchestration

Job summary

Responsibilities

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Agent Orchestration team. This is a highly technical, player/coach leadership role at the core of Decagon’s product. You’ll lead the team responsible for the runtime and control plane that powers every agent interaction—coordinating model…

• Build, lead, and develop a high performing team of engineers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for Decagon’s orchestration engine, balancing speed of iteration with correctness and safety.
• Drive architecture for systems that coordinate complex reasoning and action flows at scale.
• Set reliability, testing, and observability standards across the orchestration stack, and build an operating cadence that prevents repeated incidents.
• Create frameworks and guardrails that enable fast, safe iteration on agent behavior, evaluation, and rollout.

What they're looking for

• Have 2+ years of engineering management experience leading high performing teams in fast-moving environments.
• Have strong technical depth and an IC foundation that enables you to guide architecture, debug complex failures, and make sound trade-offs.
• Have experience building distributed systems, execution engines, real-time platforms, or other high scale systems where correctness and reliability matter.
• Have a track record of delivering multi-quarter projects through ambiguity, creating clarity for your team and stakeholders.
• Care deeply about engineering craft and operational excellence, including testing strategy, observability, and incident learning.