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Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins. Why join Coupa Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend. Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence. Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other. Learn more on Life at Coupa blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa. The Impact of a Manager, Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineering at Coupa: As Manager of Cloud Platform Engineering at Coupa, you will be a key leader who drives the execution of our cloud platform strategy while building and mentoring a diverse team of engineers across all experience levels, with a strong focus on quality engineering, tool development, and productivity enhancement. Your leadership will directly enable hundreds of engineers to deliver exceptional products through reliable, scalable platform infrastructure, comprehensive automation frameworks, and cutting-edge productivity tools. You'll guide a team of junior to senior lead engineers in building foundational cloud technologies, quality-embedded CI/CD pipelines, custom tooling solutions, and developer productivity platforms that power millions of customer transactions daily. Your management excellence will foster engineering growth, quality-first technical innovation, and operational excellence while ensuring our platform capabilities scale to meet Coupa's ambitious business objectives and maintain exceptional reliability standards What Youll Do Lead and Develop High-Performing Engineering Teams: Build, mentor, and manage 8-12 diverse Cloud Platform Engineers with career development and performance management for individual and team success. Drive Platform Engineering Execution and Delivery: Translate strategic initiatives into actionable roadmaps ensuring timely delivery of infrastructure, automation, and platform capabilities. Foster Technical Excellence and Innovation: Establish engineering best practices, code standards, and design processes that deliver scalable solutions while encouraging innovation. Manage Cross-Functional Platform Initiatives: Lead complex multi-quarter projects coordinating with product, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated solutions. Build Comprehensive Platform Automation: Oversee CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and developer tooling development to dramatically improve organizational productivity. Ensure Platform Reliability and Performance: Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes maintaining uptime standards and sustainable operational practices. Drive Quality-Embedded Engineering Practices: Implement testing strategies, quality gates, and validation frameworks ensuring reliability while enabling rapid delivery. Manage Resource Planning and Technical Roadmaps: Collaborate with leadership to define priorities, manage capacity, and align efforts with business and technical requirements. Champion Developer Experience and Productivity: Lead self-service platform initiatives and tooling development enabling efficient and reliable service deployment. Cultivate Engineering Culture and Growth: Create inclusive, learning-focused environments promoting knowledge sharing and career advancement at all levels. Partner with Stakeholders Across Engineering: Collaborate with product, SRE, and infrastructure teams to align capabilities and ensure seamless platform integration. Drive Continuous Improvement and Productivity Optimization: Establish productivity metrics, conduct retrospectives, and build tools enhancing efficiency, reliability, and engineering velocity. What You Will Bring to Coupa Engineering Management Leadership: 8+ years software engineering with 4+ years managing teams of 8-12+ engineers across multiple skill levels and specializations. Platform Engineering and Cloud Expertise: Deep technical background in cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, containerization, and scalable platform solutions. Team Development and Mentorship: Proven expertise in hiring, developing, and retaining talent with strong performance management and technical mentorship. Advanced Quality Engineering and Tool Development: Extensive experience implementing testing strategies, building automation tools, and creating .
Here's how to pick the right one and stand out in your application.
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.