Engineering Manager, Database Platform

Summary

Join Ditto, a fast-growing startup, as an Engineering Manager in our Cloud group! Help us expand the capabilities of our cutting-edge, peer-to-peer database platform. You will lead and mentor a team of 6-8 engineers, deliver high-quality solutions, contribute to system architecture, and enhance database performance and scalability. Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to shape the team's roadmap and support software operations. This role requires strong technical expertise, management experience, and collaborative leadership skills. We offer competitive salaries, stock options, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Management Experience: 3+ years managing software engineering teams, including responsibilities like hiring, performance management, and career development
• Technical Expertise: 5+ years of technical leadership experience with a strong background in platform and database technologies, distributed systems, and similar domains
• Deep Database Systems Knowledge: Experience designing, maintaining, and optimizing high-performance storage engines (such as RocksDB or similar), indexing strategies, and replication mechanisms
• Platform and Database Product Expertise: Demonstrated experience delivering platform or infrastructure products and benchmarking, debugging, and optimizing distributed systems effectively
• Collaborative Leadership: Proven ability to manage remote, globally distributed teams with strong asynchronous communication skills. Exceptional written and verbal communication to effectively convey complex ideas and align team efforts
• Proactive Leadership: A high level of self-direction, autonomy, and responsibility in leading teams and driving projects forward

Responsibilities

• Lead, Mentor, and Grow: Guide and grow a team of 6–8 skilled and globally distributed engineers, supporting their technical success, career development, and personal growth. Provide mentorship and coaching to help team members achieve their full potential
• Deliver Excellence: Plan and deliver high-quality solutions that meet business and technical goals
• Contribute to Architecture: Be an active participant in the design and implementation of system architectures, focusing on scalability and reliability
• Enhance Database Performance & Scalability: Drive optimizations for high-throughput, low-latency distributed databases, ensuring robust data consistency and fault tolerance
• Shape the Roadmap: Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to build the team’s roadmap, incorporating input from customers, engineers, and researchers
• Support Software Operations: Ensure the reliability, performance, and availability of systems by supporting software in production environments in partnership with our SRE team
• Foster Culture: Set an example by cultivating a culture of trust, collaboration, and continual improvement aligned with Ditto’s core values

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, and experience managing cloud database applications
• Understanding of CRDTs and their practical applications
• Previous experience leading teams working with Rust as the primary programming language

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Stock options
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
• Flexible spending account (FSA)
• Flexible vacation policy
• 401(k) plan
• Office located in Atlanta, GA. Available for team member use