Glide (glideapps.com)Remote
Principal Software Engineer - Product / Frontend
United States of America
Full Time
3 weeks ago
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Key skills
Engineering managementDistributed systemsInfrastructure team managementDeveloper experienceData platformAPI platformAccelerate metricsSupabaseAirtableFirestoreSequinParagonGoogle Cloud PlatformCloud SQLCloud RunAlloyDBEvent-driven architectureApache KafkaCloud Pub/SubOpenAPIREST APIGraphQL APITelemetryDatadogPrometheusGrafanaSplunkGoogle Cloud LoggingSQLKafkaGraphQLGoogle CloudPub/SubProject ManagementDecision Making
About this role
Glide is looking for a Tech Lead Manager to lead their Platform engineering team. The role focuses on evolving data sources strategy, improving infrastructure efficiency, and ensuring operational excellence while managing a highly technical team.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate the standardization of Glide’s data sync and persistence infrastructure
- Drive integrations with data source platforms to be able to provide customers with new data sources at an accelerated pace
- Design, develop, and maintain a REST API into Glide’s data and core services
- Provide build, test, and runtime infrastructure to service teams
- Ensure patterns are established for database throttling and request rate limiting to protect Glide’s uptime
- Monitor infrastructure costs and coordinate improvements when necessary
- Drive SRE tooling and best practices around observability and alerting
- Cultivate an environment where team members are empowered through a collective sense of ownership and belonging
- Meet with team members 1-on-1 on a regular basis
- Ensure that team members learn, grow, and advance in their careers
- Create a shared understanding of decision making, direction, and progress for the team and the company
- Encourage an environment of technical excellence, and facilitate architectural discussions and decision making
- Provide technical project management support to the team, ensuring projects are scoped well for delivery, managed for risk, and delivered well
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and across team boundaries to deliver key parts of our roadmap
Requirements:
- 5+ years engineering management experience
- Experiencing building and maintaining highly available and scalable distributed systems
- Have previously managed or built an infrastructure, developer experience, data, API, or equivalent platform team
- Deep understanding of Accelerate concepts of Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Mean Time to Recovery, Change Failure Rate and how they affect delivery
- You are a clear and effective communicator, be it when you write code, write emails, or explain complex technical issues to non-technical co-workers
- Passionate and self-motivated, with a demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- Experience with data source platforms like Supabase, Airtable, Firestore, Sequin, Paragon
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform services like Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, AlloyDB, or equivalent
- Scaled an event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka, Cloud Pub/Sub, or other eventing system
- Have given conference talks around the OpenAPI spec, REST, or GraphQL API patterns
- Familiarity with telemetry and monitoring solutions like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Google Cloud Logging
- Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field