Engineering Manager

Were a global team of over 400 people working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers builders and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases search streaming and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.

We are looking for a skilled Engineering Manager to lead our App Layer Platform team. This is a critical role focused on providing a reliable scalable and secure platform for Aivens app layer.

You will report to the Head of Developer Experience working closely with your engineering team and product manager to drive revenue through three core responsibilities:

• Operational Excellence: Ensure the delivery of our App platform GA offering and its reliability scaling and security.
• Customer Satisfaction: Support our existing external customer base by resolving escalated support issues and collaborating with them to understand and solve their needs.
• Platform Optimization and Differentiation: Ideate and develop innovative new features that enable the App platform to support current and future use cases in rapid resource-optimised and cost effective ways.

• Strategic Planning: Partner with the Product Manager and Domain Head to create the teams roadmap balancing business growth with essential engineering initiatives. Ability to identify technical debt and balance innovation with stability is vital.
• Project Management: Oversee the teams backlog and projects providing clear timely and actionable updates to stakeholders on progress and potential blockers.
• Leadership & Delivery: Champion a culture of urgency and ownership to deliver impactful results. Youll be accountable for the teams delivery in all aspects including quality security and reliability.
• Team Enablement: Empower your team to act as product custodians by consistently addressing foundational and production issues.
• Performance & Development: Provide clear goals and feedback to manage expectations and drive both individual and team performance.
• Team Facilitation: Lead team meetings such as planning sessions and retrospectives to continuously improve workflows and delivery.
• Culture Building: Foster a psychologically safe high-trust environment where curiosity and healthy debate are encouraged.
• Collaboration: Ensure effective communication and collaboration both within the team and across the wider organization across Europe and American timezones.
• AI Enablement: Lead the team enablement and adoption on AI coding tooling.

Our engineering managers have a hands-on programming background and we expect them to have a meaningful say in technical conversations. While we typically look for at least five years of hands-on experience and two years in a people leadership role your accomplishments matter more than years on a resume. Whether youre a manager with a strong technical core or a staff engineer looking to dive deeper into people leadership we want to hear about the products youve shipped the impact they had and what you learned along the way.

• People Leadership: A proven track record of leading diverse teams from junior to senior engineers to successfully deliver software products.
• Product Thinking: A strong product sense that enables your team to design innovative cloud-native products that stay ahead of the curve.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills in English with the ability to effectively engage directly with customers.
• Adaptability: The ability to bring order and clarity to a dynamic ambiguous environment a trait essential in a fast-growing tech company.
• Team Building: Experience in recruiting engineering talent and a deep understanding of what it takes to build and retain high-performing teams.
• Agile Expertise: Experience with agile software development methodologies.

• App platform: Extensive experience with containerization and workload orchestration at scale. .
• Reliability Engineering: Can develop and enforce SLAs SLOs and SLIs. Able to support capacity planning and system risk analysis. Comfortable with managing the operation of a production system.
• Distributed Systems: Experience in buildingdesigning and operating distributed systems in a multi-cloud multi-region multi-tenant environment.
• Observability: A good grasp of monitoring and observability tools and the judgement on how to use them to support development and operations
• Software Delivery: : Deep understanding of release management and CI/CD best practices to own the delivery pipeline.
• Problem-Solving: A genuine interest in solving complex technical challenges with customer-focused solutions.

If you think Aiven is the place for you and that our Values align with yours send us your resume and well get in touch!

The salary range for this role is $154000 - $192500 per year.

We determine compensation based on job-related skills experience qualifications location and internal pay equity considerations.

This position is eligible for an equity award in accordance with Aivens equity scheme in force from time to time.

Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow personally and professionally:

• Participate in Aivens equity plan.
• Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
• Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
• Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
• Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave as well as Personal Time)
• Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast.

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AI in Our Hiring Process: Aiven does not currently use artificial intelligence to screen assess or select applicants. All applications are reviewed by our recruitment team.

This posting is for an existing open vacancy.