Senior Engineering Manager - Content Platform

Salary Range: 638976 to 798720 (Currency: DKK) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

What we will be doing

• Decision Authority in Copenhagen: You are the decision-maker on the ground. Resolve in Copenhagen hours what would otherwise wait overnight. As engineering's voice in the group's trio, bring the constraints Product and UX have no way to see into scope conversations early enough to change them. Your director sets goals with you and discusses how you and the group are tracking against them.
• Platform Ownership: Own Content Platform's ingestion surface as a running business — availability, throughput, cost, and delivery predictability. Modernization is how you improve those numbers, not a separate program you report on. Our move to EKS is part of it. You decide which debt gets paid down and when and keep that trade-off in front of the trio.
• Architectural Direction: Own the constraints and the cross-team contracts your Technical Leaders design within: scheduling the crawl workload so cost tracks value rather than volume, moving ingestion onto event-driven services, and defining how the rest of Siteimprove consumes what we ingest. You will hold that direction with your senior engineers, because authority here is earned in design review.
• Delivery Under Pressure: Hold the delivery line when priorities move. Work arrives from outside the team continuously, and you will sequence so committed work reaches completion rather than stalling half-built. Align directly with peer engineering leaders and close the gaps at functions you depend on but don't manage.
• Measurable Impact: Define the KPIs these systems are judged by and hold your teams to them. You will prove the impact of what you prioritize in throughput, cost, and reliability rather than asserting it, and you will stop work that moves none of them.
• Growing Your Engineers: Own performance, career development, and compensation decisions for the group. Hand the Tech Vision and System Design for major initiatives to the engineers closest to the systems, and review rather than drive them.
• AI-Native Delivery: Use AI for engineering throughput, not just for product features. You will model the practice yourself: interpreting legacy code paths nobody documented, generating test coverage around behavior before you change it, and shortening the distance between a design decision and a working replacement
• Travel may be required; a valid passport is required
• Perform other duties as assigned 

What we will require of you

Ownership at Distance: A group whose outcomes you owned while the people setting direction sat elsewhere. We want evidence of decisions you made rather than escalated, because waiting would have cost more than being wrong. This role also asks for a standing weekly overlap in your late afternoon, when the Seattle day begins, so that the conversation with your director is a working one.
Systems Depth: 7+ years in backend engineering, with real depth in distributed systems, high-throughput data ingestion, or crawling at scale. Comfort establishing how an undocumented system behaves before changing it, and the instinct to reach for AI to do that quickly.
Leadership Through Leaders: 10+ years managing engineers, including senior technical leaders whose designs you reviewed rather than produced, and whose scope you expanded rather than absorbed.
Architectural Judgment: A track record of moving established services onto cloud-native infrastructure and of designing interfaces other teams build on. What matters is having lived with both long enough to know which decisions held and which leaked.
Work Environment
This is a hybrid role based in our Copenhagen office, with the opportunity to work from both the office and home. Our working language is English.
Travel may be required up to 5% of the time.
You will work across a nine-hour spread with product and engineering leadership in Seattle, and with peer teams in other Siteimprove locations. Your late afternoon overlaps the start of the Seattle day, and the role expects you to keep a weekly window there for goal-setting and progress discussions with leadership.

What we will love about you

These systems quietly carry the entire product. If you're ready to make them faster and cheaper to run without stopping the business that depends on them, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in helping enterprise marketing teams turn their vast content into clear, actionable insights that drive measurable business results.

What you'll love about us

We’re building the next generation of AI-powered content intelligence, helping organizations unify accessibility, SEO/AEO, analytics, and content performance into one platform. If you’re energized by solving complex problems, working cross-functionally, and contributing to a product with real-world impact, we’d love to connect.

In addition, we hope you will appreciate:

At Siteimprove, we're committed to supporting your wellbeing both at work and beyond. Our Denmark benefits are designed to help you thrive personally and professionally.

Rest and relaxation: Generous time off including Danish holiday entitlements, five additional FF Days, child sick leave, and bereavement leave.

Comprehensive benefits: Health insurance, company-paid mobile phone support, and internet allowance to support your day-to-day needs.

Prepare for the future: Danica pension with employer contributions to help support your retirement goals.