Sr Manager, Engineering

Kentik

20h • $230,000 - $275,000 • Remote

About The Position

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.
Kentik's Platform Engineering group is responsible for ingesting, storing, enriching, and querying traffic metadata and metrics from the world's largest networks. Our platform actively monitors infrastructure, triggers automated responses to outages and attacks, and plays a critical role in delivering complete network observability to our customers. Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day. The scale that this group services is tremendous.
Platform Engineering consists of 3 teams: (1) Ingest, (2) KDE Storage and Query, & (3) Network Data.
As a leader in platform engineering of both the Ingest and Network Data Team, you will lead the team in designing, and scaling a high-performance, data ingest and critical enrichments that plays a critical role for some of the most influential companies on the internet.
We have built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and technology thought leaders in a remote-friendly culture from day one. While prior experience in a remote environment is not required, we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills, and a high level of independence and autonomy.

Requirements

• Prior experience as an engineering manager or technical lead.
• Deep, hands-on leadership experience in a SaaS and/or startup environment.
• The ability to balance "the right way" (engineering excellence) with speed to market, ensuring buy-in from both engineers and stakeholders.
• Subject matter expertise in highly scalable data ingestion, network data enrichment, the management of massive time-series datasets, cloud, and/or observability.
• Strong organizational skills.
• A strong desire to learn and master new technologies, architectures, and market requirements as the platform expands.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Manager for the Ingest and Network Team: Mentor and lead a growing organization responsible for both the high-volume ingestion pipelines and the complex network data enrichment services.
• Provide thought leadership in designing and scaling distributed systems that ingest trillions of records while performing real-time enrichments on network metadata.
• Take broad concepts and define requirements, approach, and success metrics.
• Contribute hands-on on both greenfield and maintenance projects, including bootstrapping large and/or new products.
• Drive engineering best practices through code reviews, automated testing, and comprehensive documentation to maintain platform reliability.
• Collaborate with other engineering, support, and sales teams to drive platform-wide storage standards and alignment with customer demands.
• Participate in our recruiting and hiring process.

Benefits

• 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
• Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
• Paid family & medical leave
• Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement account
• Home office reimbursement
• Stock options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed