Management is a very high leverage activity, hiring good managers externally is really hard (harder than hiring developers), and my experience as a manager (and

Management is a very high leverage activity, hiring good managers externally is really hard (harder than hiring developers), and my experience as a manager (and manager of managers) is most developers don't want to do it (your post is an example of that!). So, if a developer is really enthusiastic about wanting to take on a management role and is being turned down, I think there are three reasonable conclusions: (1) there is no management position available; (2) this person is a very senior developer (staff or higher); or (3) there's not much confidence this person's skill set would transfer into managing a team successfully. (1) doesn't seem to be the case here, and while I can't rule out (2) there's also nothing in the OP's post that suggests he or she is in such a high-level engineering position.