Engineering Manager

About us

Areas of Ownership

Staffing

• Short Term: Re-shuffling staffing as teams move onto and off of projects



• Long Term: Hiring planning and budgeting aligned with product priorities

Feedback, Development and Performance

• Clearly setting expectations for devs at various levels of the organization



• Communicating great work and areas of improvement



• Aligning performance with:



• The needs of the individual dev



• The needs of the organization



• Defining and helping team-members to achieve personal development goals



• Supporting and following up with team members’ career progression

Clarifying, Tracking and Communicating Team Plans

• Working with leads to turn plans into general dependencies, order of operations, and rough to specific timelines, given the nature of the work



• Converting plans into digestible and understandable documents for communication throughout the organization



• Tracking progress to plans, escalating issues, and unblocking teams that need help to achieve organizational goals



• Communication with the rest of the org



• Planning of mini-offsites to work on specific, critical deliverables



• Coordination with other leaders across the organization

Requirements

• A senior leader with 5-10 years of experience



• Experience working successfully on complex infrastructure projects (preferably sensitive distributed systems)



• Experience or strong interest with Rust



• Experience in OS projects and community



• Experience building high-risk software applications

Traits We Look For:

• Respect



• Understanding of the skillsets and the challenges that go with building Core



• Not overly agreeable



• Cultural / Experience Background



• Experience shipping stable foundational technology (vs instable saas for example)



• Experience with systems that have high uptime SLA’s



• Open source community experience



• High performing with low ego

Compensation amp; Package