Engineering Manager, Voice Infrastructure

Weave is looking for an Engineering Manager (SIP Engineering) to lead mentor and scale our Voice Platform team while remaining hands-on with complex cloud-based telecom architecture. At Weave we embrace a working manager philosophy where you will balance people leadership team success and individual technical contributions including design writing and reviewing this dual role you will ensure our distributed voice platform is robust scalable and observable using core components like Kamailio RTPengine FreeSWITCH and Homer/HEPIC while driving execution setting technical vision and coaching engineers to achieve their career growth.

• This position can be remote in office or hybrid

• Reports to: Director of Engineering

The duties and responsibilities of the role.

• Provide people leadership mentorship and career growth management for engineers on the Voice Platform team.

• Actively contribute to individual technical work including designing writing and reviewing code for Golang microservices and SIP/RTP infrastructure.

• Partner closely with Product Leadership to align engineering priorities with the product roadmap and actively manage the team backlog.

• Set clear performance expectations hold team members accountable and conduct regular 1-on-1s and quarterly check-ins.

• Provide architectural vision and technical ownership for scaling our distributed cloud-based VoIP platform.

• Proactively eliminate knowledge silos and identify roadblocks to ensure steady execution and progression for the team.

• Hire and retain top engineering talent through networking sourcing and leading structured interview cycles.

• Collaborate with internal Weave customers and cross-functional teams (SRE Product Support) to support high platform availability and call quality.

• Optimize and troubleshoot FreeSWITCH and Kamailio configurations for performance resiliency and observability using HEP/Homer.

• Foster a culture of high engineering hygiene trust transparency and alignment with Weave Core Values.
  

• Proven experience in people leadership or technical team leadership within a software/telecom engineering organization.

• Staff-level technical expertise in VoIP and SIP engineering including deep familiarity with Kamailio FreeSWITCH RTPengine and Homer.

• Hands-on programming capability in Go (Golang) alongside scripting tools (Python Bash LUA).

• Deep understanding of TCP/IP networking firewalls and protocols (SIP RTP RTCP TLS ICE STUN TURN WebRTC).

• Demonstrated ability to balance individual technical contributions with team leadership and administrative responsibilities.

• Experience operating production services in cloud environments (GCP preferred) and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with DevOps infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

• Strong conflict resolution communication and management-up capabilities.

• Experience collaborating with HR partners to handle performance development and coaching.

• Commitment to driving incident response postmortems and durable fixes.

• 7 years of experience designing building and leading large-scale distributed VoIP networks.

• Prior official experience as an Engineering Manager in a dual technical/leadership capacity.

• Certifications in Kamailio or OpenSIPS.

• Proven track record of building trust maintaining high morale and promoting continuous career progression for direct reports.

Employment with Weave is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check conducted in accordance with applicable laws.

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Weave is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals are valued and supported. We welcome anyone who is hungry to learn problem-solve and progress regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity veteran status or other applicable legally protected you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know.

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Required Experience:

Manager