Starburst is hiring a
Manager, Engineering

Summary

Join Starburst's team of All-Stars as an experienced Engineering leader to help scale our growing engineering team and build a motivated team responsible for developing SaaS based open data lakehouse platform (Galaxy).

Requirements

• Have a track record of leading distributed systems engineering and operations teams in software companies
• Have demonstrated expertise in building and running a platform in multiple locations at Billions of events/week or greater scale either on-premise or in public cloud
• Have prior experience in building enterprise security features
• Be passionate about engineering hygiene and operational excellence
• Have the know-how to build an engineering organization that delivers it
• Be familiar with agile processes, continuous integration, and test automation
• Be a strategic thinker as it relates to scale and removing humans from the loop
• Thrive when operating in broad scope, from conception through the continuous operation of 24x7 services to defined SLA’s
• Distill complex and ambiguous situations into actionable plans for your team
• Represent your customers’ perspectives. You plan for how they will be impacted by the services you build, and you always work to enable their success

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of passionate engineers
• Provide support and guidance that enables the team to self-organize and to achieve sustained high velocity and predictability
• Drive and deliver the vision for data governance for the data lake analytics platform covering authentication, authorization and compliance aspects of the platform
• Help employees grow through career development, coaching, and mentoring while guiding senior contributors to maximize their potential
• Own, operate, and maintain your team’s services
• Employ Agile methodologies to continuously deliver value to customers
• Enhance and maintain a rotating on-call incident escalation and response process
• Represent your team’s operational maturity to Starburst’s executives and product teams across the company
• Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers, Architects, and Tech Leads to ensure the team has clear direction and priorities
• Act as an ambassador for Starburst, recruiting and motivating top talent

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Attractive stock grants
• Remote-friendly work options
• Flexible paid time off