Engineering Manager, Cloud

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Provide leadership, mentorship, and development for a team, promoting a culture of ownership, accountability, and excellence in engineering execution.

• Achieve high-performance outcomes through consistent coaching and performance evaluations that encourage long-term career advancement, while cultivating the next tier of technical leadership within the team.

• Manage the hiring process, onboarding, and ramp-up for the Cloud Platform team, enhancing the team depth during a period of senior-level hiring and expansion.

• Oversee roadmap execution, manage the sprint and release schedule, and ensure timely delivery of cloud platform features across both Robot and Customer interfaces.

• Formulate and implement the team roadmap in alignment with the company's and Platform's strategic objectives, balancing immediate goals with the long-term health of the platform.

• Navigate and prioritize high-level trade-offs among competing priorities (performance, schedule, cost, reliability, scalability) to fulfill commitments while maintaining quality standards.

• Manage production reliability, oversee the on-call rotation, and handle incident response, striving for clear service-level objectives and sustainable solutions rather than temporary fixes.

• Take charge of cloud cost management and efficiency, collaborating with engineering and finance to ensure platform expenditures align with business goals.

• Collaborate with the platform's Principal and Staff technical leaders on architecture and technical strategy, making decisive calls as necessary.

• Offer architectural direction for complex, high-availability distributed systems to guarantee reliability, scalability, and security across the platform.

• Work cross-functionally with Platform, Apps, Autonomy, Product, and GTM teams that utilize cloud services, representing Cloud in planning and prioritization efforts.

• Actively participate in development tasks to fulfill commitments as needed and undertake additional duties and projects as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Over 5 years of professional software engineering experience in cloud, platform, or backend systems, including 2-3 years in a formal management role leading engineering teams.

• Demonstrated success in delivering and maintaining production cloud services at scale (focusing on reliability, on-call duties, and cost), preferably in robotics, autonomous systems, IoT, or large-scale distributed platforms.

• Extensive experience with Agile methodologies and the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

🏝️ Benefits

• A discretionary annual bonus target.

• Stock options.

• 401(k) plan with matching contributions (no waiting period and immediate vesting).

• A comprehensive range of insurance benefits for employees (and their families), including various medical plan options (with an HSA that includes employer contributions), dental, vision, life and disability insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), legal/identity support plans, and pet insurance.

• Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical and Dependent Care).

• Generous paid time off, including flexible vacation, Paid Sick Leave, time for community volunteering, 10 paid company holidays, and a winter company shutdown.