Senior Engineering Manager, Aiven
OEM
+ Equity
AI-ready open source data platform
Open for applications
AI-ready open source data platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help customers create outcomes and accelerate building applications.
Role
Who you are
- People Leadership: A proven track record of leading diverse and distributed teams, to successfully deliver software products
- Product Thinking: A strong product sense that enables you to drive the direction of the products towards meeting customer needs (mostly for MySQL)
- Communication: Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to effectively engage directly with customers
- Adaptability: The ability to bring order and clarity to a dynamic, ambiguous environment, a trait essential in a fast-growing tech company
- Team Building: Experience in recruiting engineering talent and a deep understanding of what it takes to build and retain high-performing teams
- Agile Expertise: Experience with agile software development methodologies
- Cloud infrastructure Concepts: Good knowledge of VM-based cloud infrastructure fundamentals
- Release & Quality: Deep understanding of release management and testing best practices to own the delivery pipeline
- Problem-Solving: A genuine interest in solving complex technical challenges with customer-focused solutions
Desirable
- Distributed Systems: Experience in building and designing distributed systems at scale in a cloud environment
- MySQL concepts: Good understanding of how to manage MySQL or similar databases
What the job involves
- As part of delivering world-class managed services, Aiven enables cloud providers - our OEM partners - to create their own DBaaS offerings
- We are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Senior Engineering Manager to lead the execution of our OEM-focused product development
- You will lead a team of engineers who are responsible for managing MySQL and PostgreSQL services for our partners
- We are looking for a person who can effectively manage technical discussions, people development, and customer interactions
- Reporting to the Director of OEM Engineering & Strategy, this position acts as the central connection between our engineering teams and our OEM partners
- This role offers a unique opportunity to combine technical leadership with operational excellence and direct customer interaction, enabling you to directly impact the growth of our platform within the partnership landscape
- You will not only streamline delivery processes and foster a high-performing engineering team, but also act as a key point of contact for our OEM partners, understanding their requirements, addressing their concerns, and ensuring successful deliveries
- Lead the team of engineers responsible for managing services for our partners, currently focused on MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Capacity planning & Delivery: Effectively allocate engineering resources across projects and initiatives, ensuring optimal utilization and alignment with our partner’s priorities. You'll be accountable for the team's delivery in all aspects, including quality, security, and reliability
- Team Facilitation: Lead team meetings, such as planning sessions and retrospectives, to continuously improve workflows and delivery
- Culture Building: Foster a psychologically safe, high-trust environment where curiosity and healthy debate are encouraged
- Talent acquisition: Actively seek and recruit high-potential engineering talent to strengthen the team's capabilities and drive innovation
- Delivery process optimization: Continuously analyze and improve delivery processes, identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency
- Risk management & mitigation: Proactively identify and assess potential risks, developing mitigation strategies to minimize disruptions and ensure on-time deliveries
- Requirements gathering & communication: Collaborate with OEM partners to gather detailed requirements, ensuring clear communication and alignment between partner expectations and engineering deliverables
- Partner feedback & advocacy: Proactively solicit and analyze customer feedback, acting as an advocate for OEM needs within the engineering organization
- Regular status updates & reporting: Provide regular status updates to OEMs, including project progress, milestones, and potential risks, ensuring transparency and proactive issue resolution
Application process
- If you think Aiven is the place for you and that our Values align with yours, send us your resume and we’ll get in touch!
Our take
The cloud infrastructure is booming as more businesses rely on open-source technologies to run their operations at scale. In this fast-growing space, Finnish company Aiven has carved out a strong reputation since founding in 2016. The company provides fully managed cloud services, helping organizations use open-source tools without the hassle of managing the technical details themselves.
The company works with a wide range of clients around the world, offering services that cover everything from databases to messaging systems and analytics tools. So, Aiven is helping businesses streamline their cloud operations and focus on growth instead of infrastructure headaches. Making complex technology accessible, reliable, and scalable for teams of all sizes.
Recently, Aiven his a major milestone of surpassing $100M in annual recurring revenue, a signal of its growing impact in the cloud space. To support this next phase of growth, it's opening a new hub in Cork, Ireland, creating a bunch of new jobs over three years.This expansions puts AIven in a prime position to scale internationally and bring its managed open-source solutions to more companies.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2022
$210m
SERIES D
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $420m
Company benefits
- Stocks: Stock options for permanent employees
- Learning & growth: Get ahead with an individual learning budget, access to a web learning platform, coaching, and the ever-growing Aiven library.
- Work/life balance: Flexible, regular working hours, and hybrid work friendly.
- Health care: Private health and dental care.
- Work equipment: The tools you need to do your job.
- Cool, collaborative work spaces: with free drinks, treats and fruit.
Company HQ
Kamppi, Helsinki
Leadership
Oskari Saarenmaa
(Co-Founder CEO)Senior Software Engineer and Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2002 to 2011.CEO and Software Architect of Ohmu Ltd. from 2010 to 2016.
Heikki Nousiainen
(Co-Founder & Field-CTO)Experience as Information Security Specialist for TietoEnator. Lead Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2008 to 2015.
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