Engineering Manager-Performance and Release Engineering

Summary

Join Ditto's Performance & Release Team as Engineering Manager and lead a team in building and shipping excellent products. Guide and grow a team of 6–10 engineers, focusing on CI/CD, QA, automated testing, and releases. Contribute to system architecture, enhance CI/CD systems, manage budgets, and improve QA processes. Collaborate with stakeholders to shape the team's roadmap and ensure the reliability of internal systems. Foster a culture of trust and collaboration. This is a newly formed team within a fast-growing startup.

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 dev ops, testing, release pipelines, QA, distributed systems, and similar domains
• Deep Testing Experience : Experience testing complex systems, building reliable benchmarks, working with or managing QA engineers, building automation with physical hardware, and using industry standard technologies like Github Actions, Build Kite, and Docker
• 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 6–10 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. Work with engineering teams to define roadmap, and execute on architectural strategy
• Enhance CI / CD Systems : Drive initiatives to increase the reliability, coverage, and consistency of CI and CD for both SDKs and our Cloud services
• Resource Management : Manage budget for CI/CD infrastructure, optimize resource usage and plan capacity for growing engineering organization
• Enhance QA : Drive team process to cover gaps in our automated pipelines, and build new automated coverage to keep QA focused on the highest value they can bring
• Shape the Roadmap : Collaborate with stakeholders to build the team’s roadmap, incorporating input from engineers, product managers, engineers, and customers
• Support Software Operations : Ensure the reliability, performance, and availability of our critical internal systems
• Foster Culture : Set an example by cultivating a culture of trust, collaboration, and continual improvement aligned with Ditto’s core values

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity across a breadth of programming languages such as Rust, C++, JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Dart, .Net. Java, and platforms such WASM, JS Web, Windows, Linux, MacOS, JVM, mobile emulators, and native mobile
• Experience working with testing and delivering technologies built for Mobile
• Knowledge of technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, and experience managing cloud database applications
• Experience with property-based testing or other state-space exploration techniques
• Previous experience with data analytics for effective monitoring

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Stock options
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
• Flexible spending account (FSA)
• Flexible vacation policy
• 401(k) plan