Engineering Manager, Quality

About Onebrief

Onebrief is collaboration and AI-powered workflow software designed specifically for military staffs. By transforming this work, Onebrief makes the staff as a whole superhuman - meaning faster, smarter, and more efficient.

We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team. Onebrief operates as an all-remote company, though many of our employees work alongside our customers at military commands around the world.

Founded in 2019 by a group of experienced planners, today, Onebrief’s team spans veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software companies. We’ve raised $123m+ from top-tier investors, including Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Insight Partners, and Human Capital, and today, Onebrief is valued at $1.1B. With this continued growth, Onebrief is able to make an impact where it matters most.

About The Role

We’re looking for a talented Engineering Manager to lead our Engineering Quality team. This team is responsible for ensuring that releases, metrics, and quality infrastructure of the Onebrief platform. You will oversee release validation, build out quality metrics and dashboards, and establish performance and load testing practices that scale across engineering. Working closely with Product, SRE, and Engineering Enablement, you’ll ensure our releases are safe, measurable, and continually improving. Your team’s work will provide the guardrails and insights that enable all other engineering teams to ship with quality and confidence.

Why Join Onebrief?

At Onebrief, your contributions will directly support safer and more effective military operations globally. Join a dedicated, talented team driven by excellence, innovation, and meaningful mission impact.

About You

You are a people-first leader who thrives at the intersection of quality, performance, and engineering enablement. You have hands-on experience with release processes, quality metrics, and testing infrastructure, and you know how to scale these practices across multiple teams. You’re passionate about building systems and processes that improve reliability without slowing delivery. Your leadership style is collaborative, thoughtful, and focused on clarity, trust, and accountability.

What You’Ll Do

• Prioritization & Execution: Drive clear prioritization of quality initiatives and ensure disciplined execution, balancing long-term improvements with immediate release needs.
• Release Validation: Lead the definition and execution of release validation processes, ensuring confidence in every deployment.
• Quality Metrics: Define and track org-wide quality metrics, Identifying areas of high impact, building dashboards that provide visibility and accountability across teams.
• Performance & Load Testing: Establish frameworks, practices and guidance for performance, load, and stress testing across client and server systems.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with Product, SRE, and CR teams to ensure that releases meet quality standards and customer impact is well understood.
• Team Leadership: Grow, mentor, and lead a team of quality-focused engineers. Foster a healthy, inclusive, and high-performing culture.

Qualifications

Leadership & Management Experience

• 3+ years managing engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career growth
• Proven ability to coach engineers and build healthy team dynamics
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives with Product, SRE, and Engineering

Technical Expertise

• 5+ years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, or performance engineering
• Strong background in release validation and optimization, including CI/CD pipelines and automated test coverage
• Hands-on experience with performance/load testing tools and methodologies
• Familiarity with observability, tooling, and quality dashboards

Platform & Delivery Focus

• Track record of improving reliability and release confidence through metrics and automation
• Experience owning long-lived test frameworks or infrastructure that supports multiple teams
• Familiarity with bug lifecycle management and incident response processes

Communication & Collaboration

• Clear, thoughtful communicator who writes well and aligns teams asynchronously
• Collaborative, low-ego leadership style focused on trust and shared accountability

Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)

• Experience with engineering enablement or platform orgs
• Background in building quality platforms or shared testing infrastructure
• Familiarity with military, govtech, or other high-trust or regulated environments