Engineering Manager

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms. The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others. Job Description

Location: Bengaluru, KA

About Company: Condé Nast reaches more than 550 million people every month through iconic brands such as Vogue, Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Architectural Digest. We are in the middle of a major transformation, modernizing our platforms, expanding our digital capabilities, and rethinking how content is created and delivered at a global scale. This role sits at the heart of how our content is created, managed, and distributed worldwide.

About The Team: The Platform Engineering group builds the foundation behind Condé Nast’s digital products. Our systems support content planning, creation, delivery, and experimentation across brands and markets. We care deeply about reliability, performance, and developer experience, and we work closely with product, design, and data partners across the US, Europe, and India.

About The Role: We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team in the content creation domain, specifically focused on building and evolving our in house CMS, Copilot. You will manage a team of approximately 8 to 10 engineers and help them design, build, and operate services that are critical to how Condé Nast creates, manages, and distributes content. This role is well suited for a technically strong manager who enjoys staying close to the work when it matters, can adapt to changing priorities, and is comfortable owning initiatives end to end, from early ideation through delivery and long term operation. While this is not a primarily hands on coding role, there will be times when writing or modifying code is expected, particularly to unblock the team, prototype solutions, address critical issues, or contribute to complex technical efforts. You should be comfortable working directly in the codebase when needed, while spending the majority of your time on technical leadership, team health, and delivery. The ideal candidate has deep backend experience, a strong understanding of distributed systems, and enough front end knowledge to effectively partner with client side engineers and product teams.

What You’ll Do Engineering and Architecture Guide the architecture, design, and development of scalable backend services, APIs, and applications that power Copilot and the content creation ecosystem

Participate in technical design and code reviews, setting and maintaining a high bar for quality, reliability, and maintainability

Partner with product and design to translate business requirements into robust, extensible systems

Help evolve our infrastructure and platform capabilities using AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker

Partner with engineers to identify and execute on cost optimization opportunities across cloud infrastructure, data storage, and service architecture, using metrics and usage patterns to guide decisions

Drive thoughtful and responsible use of AI to address challenges in content creation, and its workflows

Team Leadership Manage and support a team of 8+ engineers

Coach engineers on technical growth, system design, and career development, providing clear and actionable feedback

Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement

Improve team processes to increase efficiency, quality, and time to market

Partner closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to ensure solutions meet real user and business needs

About You 10+ years of experience building and operating production software systems

2+ years of people management experience leading teams of at least 4 engineers

Strong backend engineering background with experience designing and operating distributed systems

Solid understanding of cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized environments, particularly AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes

Proficiency in at least one programming language, with the ability to read and reason about code across services

Experience designing and working with REST and GraphQL APIs

Strong database experience with systems such as MongoDB and Postgres

Comfortable owning projects across the full development lifecycle, from ideation to long term support and operation

Clear and effective communicator who works well in cross functional and distributed teams

Willingness and ability to collaborate across time zones

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent practical experience

Nice to Have Experience with MongoDB and OpenSearch in production environments

Experience with JavaScript and related frameworks such as Node.js, Express, Hapi, or React

Familiarity with front end fundamentals including HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript

Prior experience working on CMS, publishing, or content platforms

Our Tech Stack Languages and Frameworks: JavaScript, Node.js, Python

Data: MongoDB, Postgres, OpenSearch, Redis, ValKey, Kafka

Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions

APIs: REST, GraphQL, Apollo Federation, AWS AppSync

Observability: Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry

Version Control: Git, GitHub

How We Work Strong emphasis on pairing, knowledge sharing, and continuous upskilling

Collaboration across regions and time zones

Infrastructure as Code by default

Teams own and operate the services they build, including on call responsibilities

Why Work With Us Competitive compensation and benefits

A collaborative, curious, and supportive engineering culture

Modern tools and hardware to help you do your best work

A well established product development organization

An opportunity to help shape the future of digital publishing at a global scale

If you don’t meet every requirement listed but are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply.

What happens next? If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.