Sr Manager, Software Engineering at Cengage Group
Seattle, WA
$138,200–$221,100from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A player/coach engineering management role overseeing remote agile teams building and maintaining the ed2go digital learning platform. The work spans hands-on architecture and feature development — including cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, microservices modernization, and generative AI integration — alongside team leadership, backlog prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration with product and design. Best suited to an experienced engineering leader comfortable operating at both the technical and organizational level.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 2,350–7,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This is a player/coach Engineering Manager role — the JD explicitly splits time between people management (hiring, leading global teams, agile delivery) and hands-on product/architecture work. 11-3021 is the primary classification given the direct-report team ownership, but 15-1252 is a genuine runner-up given the hands-on architecture and coding expectations.
The role is described as remote-first ('lead remote software engineering organizations'), but no specific geographic location or CBSA is stated in the posting.
The 5+ years requirement is stated at the leadership level ('5+ years of leadership experience'), not tied to any specific technology.
AWS sub-services called out explicitly include EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, and CloudFormation — these are captured under the single 'AWS' skill per naming conventions.
Terraform and AWS CDK are listed together as Infrastructure as Code options; emitted as one skill with AWS CDK as an alternative.
Generative AI skills (LLMs, LangChain/OpenAI/Hugging Face, vector databases, MLOps) appear under a clearly secondary 'Generative AI & Emerging Technologies' section framed with 'familiarity', 'knowledge of', and 'motivation to be up to date' — treated as preferred.
The compensation figure ($138,200–$221,100/year) is base pay; the posting also references a 20% annual discretionary incentive bonus target, which is not reflected in the comp range fields.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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