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Redpanda Data is a cost-efficient streaming data platform that is compatible with Kafka APIs. The company strives to ensure a user-friendly platform and simplify real-time data whi
Senior Engineering Manager, Replication and Storage
Location
United States
Posted
165 days ago
Salary
$231K - $275K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Senior Engineering Manager, Replication and Storage
Redpanda Data
This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of distributed systems engineers working on Redpanda. - 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. Qualifications - 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. Requirements - Knowledge of Linux filesystem internals. - Experience working on databases or other storage systems internals, such as RPC, caching, allocators, compressors, Raft, Paxos, etc. - Previous experience managing people managers. Benefits - U.S. base salary range for this role is $231,000 - $275,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $221,000 - $265,000 (other US locations). - Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. - As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. - Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Job Requirements
- 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.
- Knowledge of Linux filesystem internals.
- Experience working on databases or other storage systems internals, such as RPC, caching, allocators, compressors, Raft, Paxos, etc.
- Previous experience managing people managers.
Benefits
- U.S. base salary range for this role is $231,000 - $275,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $221,000 - $265,000 (other US locations).
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
- As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary.
- Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
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