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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading engineering teams, optimizing system performance, and ensuring reliability through effective incident response and operational standards. Proficient in managing distributed systems and driving automation while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous feedback.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Engineering ManagementDistributed SystemsPerformance OptimizationAWS, GCP, Or AzureKubernetes
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Hard Skills
Technical Debt ManagementPerformance ProfilingCapacity PlanningLatency OptimizationFault Tolerance DesignInfrastructure-as-CodeSLOs And SLIsIncident Response ProcessesOperational StandardsScalable Software Delivery
Soft Skills
MentoringCandid FeedbackTeam Capacity AssessmentCollaborationAccountability
Industry Keywords
Operational ExcellenceHigh AvailabilityOn-Call RotationsContinuous DeliveryCloud Infrastructure
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead and mentor a team of highly skilled engineers
- Own the reliability roadmap, including identifying, prioritizing, and executing technical debt work
- Drive automation and reduce operational friction
- Champion performance profiling, capacity planning, and latency optimization
- Address system bottlenecks proactively
- Build and improve incident response processes, postmortem practices, and on-call rotations
- Use SLOs and SLIs to measure and improve system health
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, and Customer Success on engineering best practices
- Balance delivery speed with sustainability
- Assess team capacity to ensure consistent delivery of platform commitments
- Leverage team members according to seniority and strengths
- Build platform capabilities, tooling, and operational standards for reliable software delivery
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experienced Engineering Manager
- Hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems at scale
- Experience diagnosing cascading failures, optimizing P99 latencies, and designing for fault tolerance and graceful degradation
- Extensive experience managing software engineering teams in highly scalable, reliable, and operationally excellent environments
- Experience driving hiring aligned with execution needs and future roadmap demands
- Deep understanding of AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, container ecosystems, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices
- Strong background in performance-sensitive systems with strict SLAs and high availability requirements
- Proven ability to grow talent through candid, continuous feedback aligned with career frameworks
- Ability to remain technically engaged and accountable for architectural quality, security, and reliability decisions
- Ability to work within a “you build it, you run it” culture
Benefits
Comp & perks- Training, connections, and one-on-one time with your manager during the first 30 days
- Virtual or onsite colleague shadowing depending on work location
- Access to extensive company and team information during onboarding
- Continuous learning opportunities
- Open and collaborative work environment
- Equal opportunity employment