Engineering Manager - Backend
Leads software engineering teams in Bengaluru building scalable, secure, cloud-agnostic infrastructure and products for data and machine-learning workloads. The role requires extensive distributed-systems experience, team-building and people-management expertise, and a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Hire great engineers to build an outstanding team.
- Establish high technical standards through processes such as architecture reviews and testing, and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to build a long-term roadmap.
- Coordinate execution and collaborate across teams to unblock cross-cutting projects.
- Partner with product managers, sales, and customers to develop innovative features and products.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems and associated practices, including testing, monitoring, and SLAs.
- Extensive experience as a software engineering leader building and scaling software engineering teams from the ground up.
- Extensive experience managing teams of strong software engineers.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Architecture Reviews, Software Testing, Monitoring, Service Level Agreements, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Client Libraries
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