Sr Manager, Engineering - Platform Engineering - Ingest & Network Data

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. The Sr Manager, Engineering will lead the Ingest and Network Data Team in designing and scaling high-performance data ingestion and enrichment processes for influential companies on the internet.

Responsibilities:

• Mentor and lead a growing organization responsible for both the high-volume ingestion pipelines and the complex network data enrichment services
• Provide thought leadership in designing and scaling distributed systems that ingest trillions of records while performing real-time enrichments on network metadata
• Take broad concepts and define requirements, approach, and success metrics
• Contribute hands-on on both greenfield and maintenance projects, including bootstrapping large and/or new products
• Drive engineering best practices through code reviews, automated testing, and comprehensive documentation to maintain platform reliability
• Collaborate with other engineering, support, and sales teams to drive platform-wide storage standards and alignment with customer demands
• Participate in our recruiting and hiring process

Requirements:

• Prior experience as an engineering manager or technical lead
• Deep, hands-on leadership experience in a SaaS and/or startup environment
• The ability to balance 'the right way' (engineering excellence) with speed to market, ensuring buy-in from both engineers and stakeholders
• Subject matter expertise in highly scalable data ingestion, network data enrichment, the management of massive time-series datasets, cloud, and/or observability
• Strong organizational skills
• A strong desire to learn and master new technologies, architectures, and market requirements as the platform expands