Engineering Manager, Control Plane

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance, mentorship, and career development for a team of software engineers.
• Contribute toward the success of our Product organization which includes Engineering, Product Management, and Design. Operate in Pods of 2-4 engineers plus a Product Manager and Designer; each Engineering Manager handles 2-3 such Pods.
• Pods work across the codebase to implement features, address shortcomings, and answer customer requests.
• Provide technical direction in projects as needed, and grow the technical leadership capabilities of the engineers reporting to you.
• Help grow the organization: interviewing and recruiting, guiding the development of the engineering culture, developing processes as we grow.
• Achieve significant business outcomes through cross-functional collaboration with product managers, data scientists, and designers.
• Help your team improve their performance and the quality of their work; make major design decisions.
• Hire, nurture, and oversee a team of engineers while fostering an atmosphere of psychological well-being, embracing diversity and promoting inclusion.
• Lead a team responsible for managing a critical production service, including operational concerns (monitoring, alerting, on call, etc).
• Manage healthy conflict by moderating design discussions and cultivating a positive culture of feedback with candor and kindness.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams across the organization to complete complex projects spanning multiple technical domains.
• Drive planning across multiple time horizons, from immediate tactical needs to long-term strategic direction.

Requirements

• Experience as a people manager.
• Demonstrated leadership with substantial experience in managing and mentoring Engineering teams, including performance evaluations, career development, and fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Background building and operating production services with high availability and performance targets.
• Expertise managing on call rotations and incident response.
• Highly technical manager, able to independently evaluate complex technical tradeoffs in design conversations while leaning on experts in the team for design and implementation.
• Experience developing in Go, used for much of the system.
• Ability to give and process constructive feedback, as well as work independently.
• Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup.

Nice-to-Haves

• Comfort working asynchronously in a fully remote, early-stage company.