Senior Engineering Manager, Redpanda Data

• We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of distributed systems engineers working on Redpanda
• Passionate about world-class systems software development and the value it provides
• Excited to roll up your sleeves and do what it takes to deliver objective results
• Eager to thrive with the thrill and ethos of a fast growing startup
• Accountable, bring a sense of ownership and are self-driven
• 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
• Experience working on databases or other storage systems internals, such as RPC, caching, allocators, compressors, Raft, Paxos, etc

Desirable

• The engineering Core team’s mission is to create the best data streaming platform
• The team consists of known experts in foundational technologies such as Raft/consensus, transactions and distributed storage, who have come together to build a differentiated highly performant product with compelling traction in the market
• The engineering Core team works closely across multiple functions at Redpanda and our work directly drives key business metrics through various SaaS and self-managed offerings. Redpanda is growing and so are we!
• 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