Foster your team’s culture and build a high-trust team by promoting transparency, accountability, ownership, and psychological safety
Hire, develop, and retain talent
Demonstrate strong leadership and mentorship skills to foster a high-performing, innovative team environment that supports growth and retention
Provide technical guidance to your team of software engineers and SREs to help build robust, well-engineered, and scalable software solutions
Drive functional and technical delivery of key team and org-wide programs/initiatives
Work collaboratively with cross-functional and senior management to influence and align on department-level goals and objectives
Develop, implement, and iterate on processes, frameworks, and practices to achieve goals with well-defined success criteria
Create widely circulated plans that drive consistency, clarity, and best practices, and build alignment across teams
Reduce ambiguity by establishing a clear guiding strategy and goals that align with business priorities

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Physics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
13+ years of professional experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
6+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
Experience with Kubernetes and containerization; strong understanding of container orchestration, microservices architecture, and cloud-native principles
Experience with data engineering and data architecture
Strong expertise in virtual machines, Linux/UNIX systems, kernels, and networking
Demonstrable experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices such as SLOs, observability practices, Learning From Incidents/root cause analysis culture, and automation to eliminate toil
Knowledge of team management best practices and demonstrated experience building and scaling effective teams that drive a high-performance, high-trust culture in a distributed work environment
Sound project management, strong analytical skills, and the ability to establish meaningful metrics that help drive a high return on investment
Customer focused mindset and the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with internal and external partners.

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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