Engineering Manager, Sprout Social

• We’re looking for a collaborative, pragmatic, highly motivating engineering leader to help our teams succeed. If you can capably help a team to solve hard problems, and push them to learn from and teach each other, we'd love to talk with you!
• 5+ years of experience developing and supporting infrastructure in a production environment
• 2+ years of experience managing infrastructure teams
• Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts

Desirable

• Sprout Social is looking to hire an Engineering Manager to support our Core SRE team building out our Kubernetes infrastructure
• Build a high functioning, well-motivated engineering team and steer them to iteratively deliver quality results
• Leverage your experience in building and maintaining secure, reliable Kubernetes clusters to power the next generation of Sprout experiences
• Guide the team through complicated product and technical road maps, and partner with cross-functional and engineering leaders to align on the strategy for your team and support its execution
• Grow your team of SREs with effective feedback, coaching, and career development
• Work directly alongside the team by providing code reviews, upholding development standards, and guiding the team’s architecture and technical vision
• Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
• Complete Sprout Social’s new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members. You’ll gain a broader understanding of our products and how your role fits into the organization
• Make a plan with your manager to set initial priorities, align on expectations for your role, plant goalposts for your career, and learn the team's current Mission, Goals, and Objectives along with future product roadmaps
• Begin to understand the capabilities and limitations of our platform, web, and mobile technologies, and how our infrastructure supports them
• Start to build relationships with the team and stakeholder squads across Engineering
• Learn Sprout's management practices and tools
• Start 1:1s with everyone on the team and continue building relationships
• Provide regular technical guidance and feedback through code reviews
• Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
• Participate in architectural discussions and decisions, asking the right questions to push your team to successful outcomes
• Help the team shape the technical roadmap for long term success
• Assume management of the engineers on your team, Identify career growth opportunities and work with them on goals
• Help the team improve processes and team rituals
• Build relationships with our infrastructure, product, and support teams and identify ways your team can be more proactive and effective
• Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:
• Guide your team through and contribute to the successful launch of a major, cross-organizational feature
• Understand the business goals and help the team balance technical debt, vulnerability remediations, and product features
• Start to grow your leaders and ensure they are focused on the right things
• Own performance review and career band calibration process for your team
• Proactively focus your team on the right problems
• Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
• Have development plans in place for your team and hold them accountable
• Get acclimated to the hiring process and contribute to the recruitment and interviewing processes
• Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change Sprout Engineering in beneficial ways that we haven’t even considered yet