Software Engineering Team Lead

MetalBear•New York, NY

14h•Remote

About The Position

MetalBear is a remote-first, early-stage, and product-led company building mirrord, a Kubernetes development platform. mirrord allows developers and AI coding agents to run code against a live cluster before deployment, significantly reducing the feedback loop time from minutes to seconds. This is crucial for microservices development and increasingly important as AI agents contribute to code generation. mirrord is used by thousands of developers globally, including at Fortune 500 companies. The company is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to lead the Cloud Integrations Team, which focuses on features that automatically manage users' cloud services to create separate environments with minimal resource duplication, enhancing mirrord's value in enterprise settings.

Requirements

At least 1 year of experience leading engineering teams.
At least 4 years of professional experience writing production-grade code in Rust (most preferably), C++, or C.
Excellent communication skills.
Understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.
Strong systems-level thinking and an ability to debug complex, distributed environments.
Comfortable working async in a remote-first, startup environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience building developer tools.
Experience building Kubernetes operators or other components that interact with the Kubernetes API.
Familiarity with backend infrastructure tooling like data stores, message brokers, GitOps tools, etc.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and maintenance of mirrord’s cloud integration features like queue splitting, DB branching, and more.
Stay hands-on and actively contribute to the codebase.
Work with Kubernetes, cloud services, DB systems, message brokers, and other tools and platforms.
Set the technical direction for the team and maintain high engineering standards.
Drive smart, effective use of AI across the team.
Help prioritize work, unblock engineers, and drive roadmap execution.
Hire and mentor engineers as the team grows.
Partner with Product, Solution Engineering and directly with users to drive adoption and expansion.