DigitalOcean's Cloud Storage Team is seeking a highly motivated and experienced technical engineering manager to support our engineers and engineering culture and lead the team developing our software-defined Storage products.
Requirements
- Domain experience with the cloud, storage, and/or physical infrastructure systems
- Experience shipping products at scale and on-time, with a focus on the customer
- Experience managing and delivering projects throughout the entire SDLC
- Experience developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support, and product groups
- Experience with end-to-end quality best practices and their implementation
- Working knowledge of Ceph is a bonus but not required
Responsibilities
- Recruiting, managing, and maintaining a world-class remote engineering team
- Planning and executing complex technical projects in and related to cloud storage
- Collaborating with technical leads and contributing to the overall architecture, design, and development of storage projects
- Managing software project schedules using various life cycle approaches
- Developing processes and tools to improve team performance and quality-of-life
- Developing processes and tools to improve product performance and quality
- Working with the product team to ensure successful product and feature rollouts from requirements analysis through implementation and long-term operations
Other
- This person will be responsible for aiding career development, motivating and monitoring engineers, working with engineering leads to evaluate an engineer's performance, providing coaching, and counseling as needed.
- We are looking for someone with a great understanding of teams and processes, who will be accountable for the engineering team's performance and quality.
- You will also manage the recruitment, selection, and retention of the team as we continue to grow and scale.
- Supporting the goals and developing growth opportunities for team members
- Facilitating transparent, constructive communication between team members
