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Manager I, Engineering - Coordination Systems Storage

Leads the Coordination Systems Storage team, managing five engineers while contributing to distributed-systems development, incident response, and reliability initiatives. Requires platform infrastructure experience, strong coding and performance skills, and a background in operational excellence.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Lead a core team of five engineers, distributed with a majority in New York City.
  • Lead team ceremonies; prioritize, delegate, and coordinate projects.
  • Contribute hands-on code, including isolated features, small remediations, and investigation follow-ups.
  • Participate actively in operations, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
  • Promote operational excellence by organizing gamedays, conducting operational reviews, and proactively improving reliability.

Requirements

  • Strong distributed-systems expertise, including understanding varied failure modes.
  • Experience with end-to-end observability, validation testing, and simulation setup.
  • Experience working on platform teams that provide critical infrastructure to internal stakeholders.
  • Experience handling significant incidents as both a responder and follow-up owner.
  • Strong cross-team collaboration and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Strong coding foundation, including performance optimization and profiling.

Benefits and Compensation

  • New-hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program.
  • Inclusive company culture and access to employee resource groups, Inclusion Talks, global mental-health benefits, and comprehensive employee benefits.
  • Estimated annual salary: $192,000–$240,000 USD.

Skills

Distributed Systems, Observability, Validation Testing, Simulation, Incident Response, Root Cause Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Performance Optimization, Profiling, Configuration Storage, Consensus

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