Engineering Manager

Summary

Join the Waypoint engineering team at HashiCorp as an Engineering Manager! This role involves supporting the career growth of a skilled software engineering team, actively participating in hiring, and collaborating with product and design leaders. You will prioritize and scope work, improve processes, and guide design and architecture conversations. The ideal candidate possesses 2 years of software engineering people management experience and 5 years of engineering experience, along with strong communication and leadership skills. The team is growing rapidly, and this position offers the opportunity to contribute to the success of a dynamic and innovative product.

Requirements

• 2 years of software engineering people management experience
• 5 years engineering experience
• Proven experience leading software engineering teams to deliver high-quality products; bonus point for experience managing a remote distributed team. Comfortable making tough decisions and advocating for your team while balancing organizational priorities
• Strong communication skills for working across a large organization and building relationships with diverse peers and leadership in a remote setting
• A successful track record of facilitating the growth and learning of others
• Enough technical knowledge to take in highly complex, deeply technical concepts and relay them to stakeholders in a comprehensible way
• Experience breaking down large projects into small milestones and overseeing project delivery
• Experience navigating and managing projects spanning multiple codebases and organizations with separate ownership
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to work effectively across teams and stakeholders to drive projects forward
• Passionate about fostering a positive team culture and driving innovation while maintaining a strong focus on operational reliability

Responsibilities

• Support the career growth and morale of a team of skilled software engineers at varying skill levels, through setting goals, mentoring, and providing feedback
• Actively participate in hiring and growing the team and work with engineering leadership to shape the Waypoint team
• Collaborate with product and design leaders to prioritize and scope work, contribute to strategy, vision, and roadmap discussions, and play an active role in quarterly planning and estimation. Ensure alignment between engineering and product, balancing engineering effort with business goals
• Continuously evaluate and improve processes, tools, and workflows to increase efficiency, collaboration, and output
• Lean on the technical background to guide design and architecture conversations between engineers to a clear outcome

Preferred Qualifications

• A Bachelor or higher degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related fields
• Experience with internal developer platform/portals, developer tooling, or CI/CD systems to better understand the needs of our users is highly preferred
• Experience with Waypoint, Terraform, or other HashiCorp products
• Experience working with large codebases for distributed systems
• Experience improving the user experience of a complex system
• Experience working on an enterprise SAAS or cloud platform
• Eastern/Central Time Zone location is preferred, but not required, to support team members across the US and Europe