Engineering Manager, Agent Orchestration

About the role

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 reasoning, tool use, and evaluation in production—and own the technical strategy and delivery for the orchestration engine behind every customer conversation.

You'll hire and develop a high-performing team while staying close to architecture, debugging, and reliability. You'll partner closely with Research, Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and Agent SWE to translate frontier model improvements into predictable, safe, and scalable agent behavior in real customer environments.

Success criteria

• 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.
• Create frameworks and guardrails that enable fast, safe iteration on agent behavior, evaluation, and rollout.
• Partner with Product, Research, and Infrastructure teams to define requirements, navigate tradeoffs, and ship multi-quarter initiatives that move core company metrics.

Requirements

• 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 sing strategy, observability, and incident learning.
• Communicate clearly and collaborate well across Product, Research, and Infrastructure teams.

Even better if you have

• Experience with agent frameworks, runtimes, orchestration logic, or tool use systems.
• Experience with evaluation, experimentation, or model quality measurement systems.
• Experience building guardrails for safety-critical or highly reliable systems.

Compensation

$280,000 - $430,000 + Offers Equity

Benefits

• Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
• Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
• Retail Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
• Parental Leave
• Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
• Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best