Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
About The Position
As the senior engineering manager of the Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for leading a team that is responsible for Quandri’s cloud infrastructure, devops/devex, security, and compliance. You will be relied on to be the technical expert for customers assessing Quandri as a vendor in the procurement process. As a key member of our engineering leadership team, you will also contribute to building and driving a high-performing engineering organization that scales as headcount grows. Your expertise will be crucial in mentoring other developers, guiding them to grow their technical skills. You will also be responsible for hiring new talent and training them to ensure they meet our high standards. We expect effective communication and ownership, ensuring clarity and comprehensiveness. The ideal candidate is adaptable, curious, and driven, with a passion for diving deep into technical problems and a desire to make a significant impact. You will drive impact through team health, operational excellence, and delivering against aligned objectives.
Requirements
- Over 4 years of engineering team management experience.
- More than 8 years of professional engineering experience.
- At least 5 years of experience delivering mission critical software
- In-depth knowledge of AWS, CI/CD with Github Actions, kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, database management, service meshes, security operations, SOC 2 compliance, IAM, test environments, and SRE.
- Proven experience with B2B enterprise software.
- Proficient in software development best practices, with a history of deploying and operating software at scale.
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience.
- Experience in working with startups
- A candidate who exhibits exceptional proficiency in Python. The ideal applicant should have a strong track record of developing complex solutions using Python and demonstrate a deep understanding of its capabilities and best practices. An ability to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code in Python is highly desirable.
- Experience in communicating with senior leadership to manage infrastructure costs, enable shared capabilities and manage security risks.
- Experience implementing AI-driven dev environments
Responsibilities
- Build and drive day-to-day processes that lead to a highly efficient team of high performing engineers
- Build and deliver incrementally with a multi-quarter roadmap that drives operational excellence, scalability and reliability.
- Hire, coach, and mentor individuals, fostering a strong cross-functional organization. Your leadership will be key in developing the team's skills and capabilities.
- Provide technical expertise and leadership across cloud infrastructure, developer operations and experience, security, and compliance (including SOC 2). Influence best practices for software engineers on your team and ensure the operational excellence of high-stake services. This includes regular reviews and updates to meet evolving requirements and security standards.
- Collaborate with internal engineering teams, customers and company leaders to enable sustainable, reliable growth.
- Contribute to the engineering leadership of the entire organization to continually align the org with Quandri’s guiding principles.
- Provide clarity in an ambiguous environment, both for your team and for your peers and leaders.
Benefits
- Employee stock options, granted based off experience level upon hire and subject to a standard vesting schedule
- Comprehensive health benefits, including $500 Lifestyle Spending Account
- Four weeks of paid vacation per year
- Work anywhere in the world for 60 calendar days of the year
- Parental leave top-ups: 6 months for birthing parents, 8 weeks for non-birthing parents (up to $100,000 annual salary)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
