Engineering Manager, Aiven
Developer Experience
+ Equity plan
AI-ready open source data platform
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AI-ready open source data platform
201-500 employees
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+ Equity plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help customers create outcomes and accelerate building applications.
Role
Who you are
- Our engineering managers have a hands-on programming background, and we expect them to have a meaningful say in technical conversations
- While we typically look for at least five years of hands-on experience and two years in a people leadership role, your accomplishments matter more than years on a resume
- Whether you’re a manager with a strong technical core, or a staff engineer looking to dive deeper into people leadership, we want to hear about the products you've shipped, the impact they had, and what you learned along the way
- People Leadership: A proven track record of leading diverse teams, from junior to senior engineers, to successfully deliver software products
- Developer Empathy & Product Thinking: A strong developer-centric product sense that enables your team to design innovative APIs, CLIs, and documentation that stay ahead of the curve
- Communication: Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to effectively engage directly with customers and the wider developer community
- 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
- API & Tooling Design: Experience in building and designing excellent developer tooling, SDKs, and REST APIs for a cloud platform
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, particularly Terraform, for managing and automating cloud infrastructure deployment
- Documentation & Content: Strong knowledge of developer documentation best practices, tutorials, and integrating content into the developer journey
- Observability: A good grasp of monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Platform Fundamentals: The ability to understand and work with platform components to identify and remove developer friction points
- Problem-Solving: A genuine interest in solving complex technical challenges with customer-focused solutions
What the job involves
- We are looking for a skilled Engineering Manager to lead our Developer Experience team. This is a critical role focused on driving developer adoption, productivity, and satisfaction with Aiven's platform
- You will report to the Head of Platform, working closely with your engineering team and product manager to drive revenue through four core responsibilities:
- Developer Enablement: Ensure the platform is easy and intuitive for developers to use by simplifying onboarding, improving documentation, and building self-service tooling
- AI Enablement: Lead the strategy and execution for integrating AI tools and capabilities into the platform to enhance developer productivity and innovation
- Developer Satisfaction: Establish feedback loops with our external and internal developer communities to understand their pain points and prioritize platform improvements that directly enhance their experience
- Product Differentiation: Ideate and develop innovative new developer-facing features, SDKs, and integrations that attract our target customer segment, drive product engagement, and ultimately fuel growth
- Strategic Planning: Partner with the Product Manager and Domain Head to create the team's roadmap, balancing business growth with essential engineering initiatives. Ability to identify technical debt, and balance innovation with stability is vital
- Project Management: Oversee the team's backlog and projects, providing clear, timely, and actionable updates to stakeholders on progress and potential blockers
- Leadership & Delivery: Champion a culture of urgency and ownership to deliver impactful results. You'll be accountable for the team's delivery in all aspects, including quality, security, and reliability. Focus delivery on developer tools, APIs, and documentation assets
- AI/ML Strategy: Define and champion the integration of AI/ML services and tooling that empower developers to build intelligent applications on Aiven's platform
- Team Enablement: Empower your team to act as "product custodians" by consistently addressing foundational and production issues
- Performance & Development: Provide clear goals and feedback to manage expectations and drive both individual and team performance
- 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
- Collaboration: Ensure effective communication and collaboration both within the team and across the wider organization, particularly with Developer Relations and Product Marketing teams
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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