Senior Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on building a seamless, reliable infrastructure platform across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Responsibilities:

• Build, lead, and coach a team of 8-12 engineers to manage the infrastructure for the dbt platform and report to the Director of Infrastructure
• Empower your team to achieve big goals by giving them product and business context and supporting team ownership of the roadmap, product development lifecycle, and technical excellence
• Dive deep into our product to frame tradeoffs and make decisions about what, how, and when we build
• Partner with Product Marketing, Solutions Architecture, and Customer Support to build delightful migration experiences, helping our customers seamlessly move off legacy deployments
• Coach engineers in product thinking, quality, and software engineering. Build individualized growth plans and match interests and capabilities to team goals
• Work with peer managers to evolve organizational processes like product training, technical decision making, project execution, and planning

Requirements:

• 5+ years in people management with a software or infrastructure engineering team
• Experience managing senior individual contributors (Staff+ level)
• Experience supporting a cloud-based infrastructure with complex resource requirements and global deployment strategy. You bring hard-won expertise on reliability, availability, performance, and security at the intersection of application and infrastructure
• Deep understanding of Terraform and cloud infrastructure state management
• Experience leading teams through all parts of the product development lifecycle. You've lived design, implementation, end-to-end testing, observability, release strategies, and incident management
• Have successfully partnered across teams and departments to coordinate cross-cutting initiatives
• You are interested in our mission and values. You are inspired to drive progress in the data and analytics ecosystem
• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
• Have excellent written communication skills. We are a remote-first company that uses writing to facilitate decision-making
• Startup or scaleup experience. You may be asked to wear many hats, and agility in shifting roles and scopes will contribute to your success