Engineering Manager

Summary

Join our HCP Terraform Foundations Engineering group as an Engineering Manager to lead our Agent Engineering team. You will be responsible for providing mission and direction, fostering team growth, and advocating for the team's work. This role requires 2+ years leading engineering teams for large-scale SaaS platforms and 5 years of backend engineering experience. You'll mentor and coach engineers, expand the team, and ensure diversity and inclusion. The ideal candidate will have phenomenal communication skills and experience managing a remote distributed team. We offer a large footprint, a quickly-growing user base, and plenty of opportunities for growth and development.

Requirements

• 2+ years leading engineering teams for large-scale SaaS platforms
• 5 years backend engineering experience
• An interest in building a support structure for engineers to help them succeed at their job
• A dedication to modeling and supporting a positive and healthy work life balance
• Phenomenal communication skills for working across the organization, capable of building strong relationships with peers and leadership
• Experience managing a remote distributed team of reasonable size

Responsibilities

• Work with senior leadership to develop a roadmap which supports the organization’s yearly goals for scale and growth objectives
• Lead the engineers in continuing to deliver forward-thinking projects and major improvements to our reliability and stability
• Mentor and coach the team, promoting their career growth and professional development
• Expand the team when needed, recruiting and interviewing new engineers which complement the team’s skills and experience
• Foster diversity, inclusion, and equity within the team and across our group
• Work with other managers to understand shared dependencies, roadmap items, and potential blockers for the team
• Increase visibility for the team and publicly celebrate the team’s accomplishments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with managing both development and operational (i.e. Site Reliability Engineering) workstreams
• Qualified opinions about driving observability, reliability, and availability for large-scale distributed systems
• Exposure to systems software and services written in Go and Ruby on Rails monoliths
• A successful background partnering with PM

Benefits

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