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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.