Engineering Manager, Aiven
Infrastructure Platform
Offers equity
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AI-ready open source data platform
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AI-ready open source data platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Offers equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help customers create outcomes and accelerate building applications.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a production-minded engineering manager who has a keen interest in the business and user behavior, is proactive with planning, priorisation and tradeoffs, and wants to understand the “Why?” behind all things
- As a production-minded engineering manager, you communicate well with engineers and non-engineers alike, and are interested in how other functions work
- Our engineering managers have a hands-on programming background, and we expect them to have a meaningful say in technical conversations
- You’ll probably have at least five years’ hands-on programming experience building, maintaining and operating distributed systems, and at least two years’ experience of people management
- But more than the years, we care about what you have been doing
- We want to hear about the products you shipped, how they were built, what was the impact, and what you learned while doing that
- The team interacts with a wide range of products and technologies, but infrastructure and distributed systems is at its core
- Our primary technologies are Python and Go services backed by PostgreSQL
- We don’t expect you to tackle everything on the list from the get-go, but having prior experience is beneficial for sure
- Proven track record of leading teams in successful software product deliveries
- Communicate cross-functionally and have a strong product sense
- Experience in recruiting engineering talent
- Experience in agile software development
- Comfortable leading initiatives and presenting to groups
- Fluent communication skills in English, written and verbal
- Experience building full-stack web applications end-to-end, including modern single-page apps
- Experience, preferably hands-on, in public cloud infrastructure and networking (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure)
- Experience designing public RESTful APIs
- Relational database knowledge (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)
- Streaming service knowledge (Kafka, etc.)
- Experience working with CI/CD tools (BuildKite, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc.)
What the job involves
- Right now, we’re looking for a Engineering Manager (Infrastructure Platform) to join our team who shares our passion for forward-thinking and innovative approaches
- We’re hiring a engineering manager to lead our Infrastructure Platform’s product engineering team
- The Infrastructure Platform enables our users to explore and control their containerized applications and data services through our high-available APIs
- The Infrastructure Platform is often the customer’s first touchpoint with Aiven’s data platform, and plays a big part in our product-led growth strategy
- We want it to be an intuitive and seamless experience, while providing advanced features to support experienced users’ needs
- The team works on all aspects of the Infrastructure Platform across our whole tech stack, but is specifically focused on bringing new product features to life in close collaboration with other teams, while also keeping the technical foundation and delivery of the Infrastructure Platform in tip-top shape
- The distributed team consists of fantastic engineers concentrated around our Production Engineering hub in Toronto
- Plan the engineering roadmap together with product management and the team
- Manage the team’s backlog
- Be accountable for the team’s output and performance
- Coach team members as they advance in their careers
- Grow the team by hiring excellent engineering talent
- Foster a psychologically safe, high-trust environment where curiosity, healthy debate, and exchange of ideas thrive
- Facilitate team meetings like planning and retrospectives
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
- 30-45 minute call with one of our Talent Partners
- 45 minute Depth of Expertise Interview with the hiring manager
- Skills interview and or presentation for 1 hour with the wider team
- Company values interview for 1 hour
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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