Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

Team & People

• Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed environment
• Run 1:1s, performance management, career development, and onboarding for direct reports
• Handle people admin (leave, time off, etc.) for the team

Hiring

• Own the hiring plan for the team and act as Hiring Manager
• Serve as first round interviewer for all roles on the team
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close strong candidates
• Contribute to headcount planning, org design, and the evolution of engineering leadership

Delivery & Roadmap

• Own the team's roadmap and project management (Linear), driving accountability and clear milestones
• Manage workflow intake and Slack triage for cross-team requests
• Own the team's weekly updates and keep stakeholders aligned
• Organize effort against support tickets and maintain the team's SLO
• Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs early and clearly to leadership

Incident Commander

• Train as an Incident Commander and drive coordination, resolution, and post-incident follow-up
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering background with enough depth to be credible with engineers building complex systems
• 3+ years managing remote engineering teams
• Experience managing engineering teams at a cloud, SaaS, or developer tools company
• Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams that work asynchronously across disparate time zones
• Technical credibility with strong engineers while being genuinely passionate about people management
• Track record of building psychological safety and a feedback culture
• Experience with performance management and difficult conversations
• Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of building structure
• Clear written communication skills; default async and written
• Collaborative, low-ego, and adaptable

Nice to Have

• Experience with developer tools or databases