Engineering Manager, App Traffic
Leads and develops the App Traffic engineering team building reliable, scalable service-mesh and networking infrastructure across multiple clouds. Requires 9+ years of software engineering experience, including engineering leadership and distributed-systems or infrastructure expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and develop a high-performing team responsible for application traffic infrastructure.
- Drive the design and evolution of highly available distributed systems across multiple clouds and regions.
- Partner with senior and staff engineers on architecture involving routing, control planes, reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
- Lead large, ambiguous projects with dependencies across multiple engineering teams.
- Establish goals, milestones, ownership boundaries, and operating mechanisms for predictable execution.
- Balance immediate product and operational priorities with longer-term investments in architecture, reliability, and engineering velocity.
- Build partnerships with infrastructure and application teams.
- Recruit exceptional engineers and support the growth and development of engineers at all levels.
- Foster technical excellence, ownership, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years of engineering leadership experience.
- Experience managing engineering teams working on distributed systems, networking infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, or platform infrastructure.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to engage deeply with senior engineers on complex systems architecture.
- Track record leading large, ambiguous, cross-functional engineering initiatives.
- Strong understanding of reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence in production systems.
- Experience developing senior engineers and building high-performing teams.
- Ability to influence and align stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Compensation
- Annual salary range: $190,000–$237,500 USD.
- Total compensation may also include an annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Infrastructure, Service Mesh, Routing, Control Planes, Reliability, Scalability, Performance, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP
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