Senior Engineering Manager, Storage Execution

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

📋 Description

• Lead, develop, and oversee a team of 8 to 10 engineers based in New York.

• Establish clear expectations, uphold high standards, and promote a healthy, sustainable execution environment.

• Own and manage the team's roadmap focusing on durability, availability, performance, and developer productivity.

• Collaborate with OLTP leadership and Product Management.

• Handle customer escalations related to storage behavior and durability issues.

• Collaborate with Support, Atlas, and server teams to replicate, diagnose, and resolve issues.

• Drive improvements in processes and tooling to enhance engineering velocity and code quality.

• Work alongside Replication, Query, Sharding, Catalog & Routing, Storage Engines, and Atlas teams on cross-functional features.

• Represent Storage Execution in planning, staffing, and calibration efforts.

• Balance immediate deliverables with long-term availability gaps and platform investments.

• Take charge of team ceremonies, short-term planning, and on-call duties.

• Co-lead projects and implement process enhancements.

• Spearhead cross-team initiatives and multi-quarter projects that impact durability, availability, or team throughput.

• Develop a pool of engineers ready for expanded responsibilities and leadership roles.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in building, debugging, and tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent systems software (including databases, storage engines, filesystems, or similar).

• More than 2 years of experience directly managing engineers, which includes hiring, performance management, and coaching across various levels.

• Availability to work East Coast hours.

• Strong proficiency in at least one compiled, statically-typed programming language such as C++, Rust, or Go.

• In-depth knowledge of durability, availability, and performance trade-offs in distributed systems.

• Experience with replication, consensus, storage engines, or transactional systems is highly desirable.

• Proven customer focus and experience working with demanding clients or customer support/cloud teams on complex incidents.

• Demonstrated ability to develop talent, including mentoring and promoting engineers, directly managing underperformance, and creating high-engagement teams.

• Capability to lead multi-quarter initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.

• Proficiency in using written documentation to align teams on design, scope, and trade-offs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Participation in the employee stock purchase program.

• Flexible paid time off.

• 20 weeks of fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave.

• Fertility and adoption assistance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Mental health counseling.

• Transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage.

• Health benefits offerings.

• Employee affinity groups.

• Supportive and enriching culture.

• Necessary accommodations during the application and interview process for individuals with disabilities.