Sr. Engineering Manager, Replication and Storage

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Work with and guide a distributed engineering team that is solving highly unique and complex problems in distributed consensus, transactions and our Storage engine
• - Together with the rest of engineering leadership and product management, craft and execute the company''s technology vision and strategy
• - Make sure the team is empowered and can demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging
• - Motivate and enable the team to contribute towards organizational success
• - Give frequent and actionable feedback to support your team''s personal development
• - Create an environment where the team is aligned with company goals, and decision-making is done collaboratively
• - Continuously strive to improve how the team works and measure outcomes
• - Lead the recruiting and hiring process of the team
• - Participate in regular performance reviews
• - Mentor team members and collaborate with them on personal and career growth
• - Bring up difficult and/or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of your manager
• - Actively discuss strategic topics with peers and Directors to help shape engineering''s environment
• - Track progress, assess risks, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team
• - Provide career development guidance and structure to members of the team
• - Drive evaluation and management of team members'' performance
• - Manage execution of projects that the team takes on

Required Skills

• - 10+ years of experience in software development and delivery
• - 5+ years of experience in managing software developers
• - Experience leading or managing highly technical engineering teams
• - Experience developing a strategy and roadmap for your teams
• - An entrepreneurial spirit - as we expect each team in Redpanda to organize themselves like a startup
• - Strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated technical leadership
• - Previous experience growing a team to 15-20 people
• - Reasonably current understanding of C++, C, Rust, or other systems language, including profiling and benchmarking
• - Comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self starter
• - Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• - Remote work
• - Competitive salary
• - Opportunity to work with a diverse, global team
• - Culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness