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Manager of Engineering

144k – 272kLehi, UTEngineering ManagementHybrid2+ YOE
Summary

Lead and mentor engineering teams building scalable distributed systems on public cloud (GCP/AWS/K8s). Requires a master’s degree plus 2 years of relevant experience and deep expertise in Go and backend infrastructure.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing career coaching and support to help them develop their technical, business, and professional skills.
  • Foster a customer-centric mindset within the team, ensuring a focus on customer and business outcomes.
  • Collaborate with other teams to define technical roadmaps and manage cross-functional initiatives.
  • Communicate effectively with stakeholders, distilling complex and ambiguous situations into actionable plans for your team.
  • Drive the development process and best practices, with a focus on delivering incremental customer value.
  • Provide clear, actionable project and development advice to your organization.
  • Ensure the development of scalable and redundant services, leveraging distributed systems and web-scale infrastructure on public cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes).

Requirements

  • Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or in a closely related field.
  • 2 years of work experience in the job offered or closely related occupation.
  • Knowledge of distributed systems and experience in building scalable and redundant services.
  • Experience with data and analytical systems such as PostgreSQL, data warehousing, data lakes, embedded analytics, or similar technologies.
  • Experience with web-scale infrastructure on public cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes).
  • Knowledge of a backend language (Go, Python, Java, C#, etc.); expertise in the Go Programming Language.
  • Experience with messaging systems, distributed data stores, and NoSQL technologies (e.g., Kafka, Google PubSub, Bigtable, Spanner, Vitess, Cassandra, Postgres, S3, Iceberg, etc.).

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: $143,874–$272,040 per year
  • May work from home
Skills
GoPythonJavaC#KubernetesGCPAWSPostgreSQLKafkaGoogle PubSubBigtableSpannerVitessCassandraS3
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