Engineering Manager, Aiven
Streaming
+ Equity plan
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AI-ready open source data platform
Open for applications
AI-ready open source data platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity plan
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help customers create outcomes and accelerate building applications.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years experience in a leadership position
- 5+ years of experience as a software developer
- Deep understanding of data streaming (Kafka and/or Flink)
- Understanding of what it takes to build high performing teams and to retain talent
- A proven background in successfully-delivered software solutions, best testing practices and deployment techniques
- A genuine interest in open source technologies and technical challenges
- Experience working in agile and fast-growing tech start-up / scale-up
- Ability to coach and to support the career development of your team members
What the job involves
- In our Product team at Aiven, we believe engineers can drive significant impact through coding and problem solving
- Here, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to challenging projects that transcend the cloud provider limitations, work alongside exceptional engineers, and continuously expand your technical expertise
- We strive to create an environment that encourages problem solving and results over following directions, so we make better decisions for our customers, our products and our employees
- We are hiring an engineering manager in our Data Streaming domain. The domain works on Apache Kafka and our own fork, Inkless, containing an implementation of KIP-1150
- The main tasks of the teams include:
- Improving Apache Kafka
- Innovating Apache Kafka with KIP-1150 (among others)
- Operating our Apache Kafka fleet
- Creating and maintaining ecosystem tools like Connectors and Schema Registry
- In the team you will be working with the engineers reporting to you, with a product owner and the leadership team, to build the future of Aiven
- What You'll Do:
- Be accountable for the delivery of the team (quality, risk management, operational impact, architecture, security, reliability)
- Maintain a healthy prioritization balance within the team backlog (like features vs tech debt)
- Drive the continuous improvement of the team’s way of working and their delivery flow
- Attract exceptional and diverse talent, influence the people planning and recruiting approach
- Support each team member to get to their full potential: from onboarding to personal development plans
- Manage expectations, individual and team performance by providing clear goals and feedback
- Ensure appropriate communication and collaboration within and outside the team
Application process
- Once applying you should hear from our Talent Experience team within 5 days regarding the status of your application. If you are selected to move forward you can generally expect 4 stages with us
- 60-minute call with one of our Talent Experience Partners
- 60-minute Depth of Expertise Interview with the hiring manager
- 60-minute Skills Interview / Presentation with the wider team
- 60-minute Crabby Principles Interview
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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