Senior Engineering Manager
About The Position
Atoms is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of 6 engineers responsible for end-to-end observability across the company's infrastructure. This role involves owning the roadmap for observability and cost initiatives, identifying pain points, and designing solutions. The manager will extend observability coverage to new physical domains, maintain a cost-efficient observability stack, and represent the technical state of their domain. The position requires staying hands-on approximately one-third of the time, utilizing AI tools for analysis, and growing the careers of team members while maintaining technical ownership.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience managing and growing engineering teams, ideally within observability, platform, or infrastructure functions
- Strong foundation in engineering architecture and design fundamentals, enough to evaluate your team's technical decisions and push back constructively, even if you're not the one architecting solutions day to day
- Comfort operating without a PM or TPM, someone who can independently scope a roadmap, prioritize competing asks, and drive execution with high ownership
- Experience with, or ability to quickly ramp on, our stack: Go, Azure/Azure Kubernetes, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry. Prior Go experience is not required
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 6 engineers owning end-to-end observability across the company's infrastructure, including logs, metrics, traces, and event-based monitoring
- Own the roadmap for our observability and cost initiative independently, no PM or TPM support, meeting directly with engineering managers across the company to identify pain points and design end-to-end solutions
- Drive down time to detect and time to mitigate for production incidents across a system where a single request can traverse 60+ services
- Extend observability coverage beyond our original food delivery systems into new physical domains, including autonomous mining transport, as the company's mission expands
- Maintain and grow a highly cost-efficient observability stack (currently running at a fraction of comparable third-party tooling costs)
- Represent the technical state of your domain in real time, speaking confidently to feasibility, scope, and timelines for any ask without needing to defer to others
- Stay hands-on (roughly a third of your time), jumping in to unblock the team when needed, using AI tools to analyze issues and surface insights, without sitting on the critical path for delivery
- Grow the careers of the engineers on your team while maintaining strong technical ownership of your domain
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).
- Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).
- Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.
- Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children.
- Pet insurance discount.
- 401(k).
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
- Discretionary vacation days
- 8 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick time
- Paid Bereavement leave
- Paid Parental Leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
