Engineering Manager, ditto
Database Platform
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Data sync platform
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Data sync platform
101-200 employees
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101-200 employees
Company mission
To expand the internet via software enabling devices to synchronise data in realtime, even where the internet doesn't reach.
Role
Who you are
- Management Experience: 3+ years managing software engineering teams, including responsibilities like hiring, performance management, and career development
- Technical Expertise: 5+ years of technical leadership experience with a strong background in platform and database technologies, distributed systems, and similar domains
- Deep Database Systems Knowledge: Experience designing, maintaining, and optimizing high-performance storage engines (such as RocksDB or similar), indexing strategies, and replication mechanisms
- Platform and Database Product Expertise: Demonstrated experience delivering platform or infrastructure products and benchmarking, debugging, and optimizing distributed systems effectively
- Collaborative Leadership: Proven ability to manage remote, globally distributed teams with strong asynchronous communication skills. Exceptional written and verbal communication to effectively convey complex ideas and align team efforts
- Proactive Leadership: A high level of self-direction, autonomy, and responsibility in leading teams and driving projects forward
Desirable
- Knowledge of technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, and experience managing cloud database applications
- Understanding of CRDTs and their practical applications
- Previous experience leading teams working with Rust as the primary programming language
What the job involves
- Help us ignite the future of highly scalable data synchronization as an Engineering Manager in Ditto's Cloud group! We are seeking a technical leader to drive innovation and expand the capabilities of our database platform
- Your role will involve guiding a talented team to build and enhance key backend systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to shape the future of our technology and the services that underpin it
- Lead, Mentor, and Grow: Guide and grow a team of 6–8 skilled and globally distributed engineers, supporting their technical success, career development, and personal growth. Provide mentorship and coaching to help team members achieve their full potential
- Deliver Excellence: Plan and deliver high-quality solutions that meet business and technical goals
- Contribute to Architecture: Be an active participant in the design and implementation of system architectures, focusing on scalability and reliability
- Enhance Database Performance & Scalability: Drive optimizations for high-throughput, low-latency distributed databases, ensuring robust data consistency and fault tolerance
- Shape the Roadmap: Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to build the team’s roadmap, incorporating input from customers, engineers, and researchers
- Support Software Operations: Ensure the reliability, performance, and availability of systems by supporting software in production environments in partnership with our SRE team
- Foster Culture: Set an example by cultivating a culture of trust, collaboration, and continual improvement aligned with Ditto’s core values
Our take
While it's convenient to assume that all the data an app needs is always located in a single place, the reality is more messy. Multi-cloud platforms, IoT devices with varied or limited connectivity and even smartphones can hold necessary data for many applications. The problem for developers is how to tame, access and use this data. Ditto exists to fix this, providing a distributed database that pulls and synchronises data from edge devices and the cloud.
Able to operate even in locations without internet, using peer-to-peer WiFi, Bluetooth and wired networks to pull data together, it provides a layer of infrastructure which is increasingly required as IoT picks up steam. However, it is not the only entrant in this growing market, and faces competition from the likes of Whalesync, PieSync and Grouparoo.
While most of these companies provide the same kind of functionality, Ditto's large and growing customer base in the tens of thousands (including the likes of the US Air Force, Lufthansa and Japan Airlines) indicates that its product is a strong competitor in this space. It has also attracted the attention of investors, most recently closing a hefty Series A round. It intends to use this funding to almost double its headcount and to focus on commercializing its product.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2025
$82m
SERIES B
Apr 2023
$45m
SERIES A
Total funding: $136m
Company benefits
- Fully Remote
Leadership
Max Alexander
(CPO)An extensive background in development, more recently working as a Mobile Engineer for Hipmunk and Product Engineer for Realm Inc.
Adam Fish
(CEO)Co-founded Roobiq in 2011. Following this they were VP of Product at Realm Inc and a Technical Consultant at HBO.
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