Decagon · 1 day ago
Engineering Manager, Agent Orchestration
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$300K/yr - $415K/yr
2+ years expDecagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering brands to deliver concierge customer experiences. The Engineering Manager will lead the Agent Orchestration team, overseeing the technical strategy and delivery for the orchestration engine that powers agent interactions, while developing a high-performing engineering team.
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Responsibilities
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
Partner with Product, Research, and Infrastructure teams to define requirements, navigate tradeoffs, and ship multi-quarter initiatives that move core company metrics
Qualification
Required
2+ years of engineering management experience leading high performing teams in fast-moving environments
Strong technical depth and an IC foundation that enables you to guide architecture, debug complex failures, and make sound trade-offs
Experience building distributed systems, execution engines, real-time platforms, or other high scale systems where correctness and reliability matter
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
Communicate clearly and collaborate well across Product, Research, and Infrastructure teams
Preferred
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
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
Take what you need vacation policy
Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks in the office
Company
Decagon
Decagon is a conversational AI platform that provides a centralized AI engine to resolve issues in any language and across all channels.
201-500 employees
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2025 (10)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$231MKey Investors
Bain Capital VenturesAccelAndreessen Horowitz
2025-06-23Series C· $131M
2024-10-15Series B· $65M
2024-06-18Series A· $30M
Leadership Team
Jesse Zhang
CEO / Co-Founder
Ashwin Sreenivas
Co-Founder
Recent News
2025-11-04
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