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Senior Engineering Manager resume example

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EtsyPosting location: New York / Brooklyn · United StatesIndependent fictional example, not company material.

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Megan Campbell

Senior Engineering Manager · New York / Brooklyn · United States

Senior Engineering Manager with experience in team growth, technical direction, delivery systems, and organizational impact. Practical work includes Design reviews, Code review mentoring, Incident follow-up, Delivery planning.

Experience

Etsy

New York / Brooklyn · United States

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2021 - now

  • As workstream lead, translated engineering strategy into team ownership and technical investment decisions, balancing roadmap commitments against reliability work; documented which work was deferred and the risk accepted.
  • With responsibility for the review standard, established technical review expectations and an engineering growth rubric; used project evidence in coaching conversations so promotion recommendations were tied to demonstrated scope rather than visibility.
  • Reviewed design proposals and incident follow-ups with engineers, assigned mentoring through real code reviews, and adjusted delivery scope when staffing and operational load conflicted.
  • Led a retrieval quality review using candidate-generation traces, resolved conflicting performance and reliability targets and approved a staged personalization experiment.
  • Designed code-review and mentoring assignments using observed skill gaps, reduced repeated design-review findings by 29% over the next delivery cycle.

Datadog

New York · United States

Engineering Manager

Mar 2016 - Dec 2020

  • Replaced status meetings with written decisions, risk reviews, and weekly demos; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, replaced status reporting with a shared record of decisions, risks, and next owners.
  • Reviewed a proposed change against the existing interface contract, reproduced a reviewer’s edge case, and added the missing test or example before merging the change.
  • Investigated a failure reported by a downstream team using the exact version and input they supplied. Reduced it to a reproducible test, delivered the fix with compatibility notes, and confirmed the original case passed before closing the report.

Selected project

Engineering Manager — independent case study

Cross-functional project lead

Mar 2023 - Jul 2023

  • Funded a reliability roadmap from the top 8 customer-impacting failure modes; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
  • Built an isolated fixture with normal, malformed and interrupted inputs; recorded the expected response before running the implementation so failures were distinguishable from a changed assumption.
  • Packaged the reproduction steps, configuration and regression tests with the project; checked the instructions from a clean environment and documented the unsupported cases instead of claiming production readiness.
  • Owned the independent regression fixture using isolated inputs, resolved a failing edge case and released a reproducible test package with expected outputs.

Education

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington · United States

B.S. Computer Science

Sep 2008 - Jun 2012

Relevant coursework: Algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks

Skills

Role expertise

Design reviews · Code review mentoring · Incident follow-up · Delivery planning

Publications

  • Published an independent technical note using the project’s before-and-after traces, explaining the failed assumption, regression coverage and cases the implementation does not support.

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Etsy

Engineering Manager

New York / Brooklyn · United StatesLead

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  • In the posting
      • retrieval
      • performance
      • personalization
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Lead and grow a team of engineers and applied scientists responsible for designing, building, and maintaining candidate generation and retrieval systems at scale.”

    “Define and execute the technical strategy for recommendations retrieval, ensuring we balance innovation, reliability, and performance.”

    “Proven experience in large-scale retrieval, recommendation, or search systems, with a strong background in candidate generation, ANN/vector search, or ML-powered personalization.”

    In this resume
    Led a retrieval quality review using candidate-generation traces, resolved conflicting performance and reliability targets and approved a staged personalization experiment.
    Senior Engineering Manager · Etsy
  • In the posting
      • code reviews
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Foster a culture of technical excellence, mentorship, and continuous learning through regular design reviews, code reviews, and structured performance feedback.”

    In this resume
    Reviewed design proposals and incident follow-ups with engineers, assigned mentoring through real code reviews, and adjusted delivery scope when staffing and operational load conflicted.
    Senior Engineering Manager · Etsy
  • In the posting
      • reliability
      • engineering
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Define and execute the technical strategy for recommendations retrieval, ensuring we balance innovation, reliability, and performance.”

    “Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Ranking, Recs Systems, ML Platform, Data Engineering, Analytics, and Product to shape the direction of the recommendations stack.”

    In this resume
    As workstream lead, translated engineering strategy into team ownership and technical investment decisions, balancing roadmap commitments against reliability work; documented which work was deferred and the risk accepted.
    Senior Engineering Manager · Etsy
  • In the posting
      • candidate generation
      • design reviews
      • people leadership
      No relevant experience found

    “Lead and grow a team of engineers and applied scientists responsible for designing, building, and maintaining candidate generation and retrieval systems at scale.”

    “Foster a culture of technical excellence, mentorship, and continuous learning through regular design reviews, code reviews, and structured performance feedback.”

    “Proven people leadership in high-stakes, fast-moving environments, remaining steady and solutions-oriented through shifting priorities and ambiguous direction”

    In this resume

    No supporting experience found. Do not add this keyword unless your own work supports it.

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  • In the posting
      • technical
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Establish clear technical goals, monitor system health, and proactively identify and resolve performance and reliability bottlenecks.”

    In this resume
    With responsibility for the review standard, established technical review expectations and an engineering growth rubric; used project evidence in coaching conversations so promotion recommendations were tied to demonstrated scope rather than visibility.
    Senior Engineering Manager · Etsy
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