# Two Pillars of (Engineering) Management

DevFeed: [Two Pillars of (Engineering) Management](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/two-pillars-of-engineering-management-39045.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.zacsweers.dev/two-pillars-of-engineering-management/>)

Author: Zac Sweers

Published: 2026-03-03T16:02:22Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Zac Sweers](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/zac-sweers.md>)

Topics: [Tech Lead](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tech-lead.md>), [SDK](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdk.md>)

Tags: [engineering-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-management.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [mentorship](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mentorship.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>), [tech-lead](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech-lead.md>)

## AI overview

The article presents engineering management as balancing two pillars: technical familiarity with the team's problem space and the ability to grow people. It uses this framework to compare different engineering manager profiles, including infrastructure, product-team, and tech-lead-oriented managers.

## Source excerpt

A former colleague once described their view of management as a role measured by two* pillars. As an IC, I really like this framing of it and it's helped me a ton of times in knowing how to best work with different types of EMs over the years.