Principal Software Engineer - Product/Frontend

Summary

Join Glide as a Tech Lead Manager to lead the Platform engineering team, focusing on evolving data sources, improving infrastructure efficiency, and achieving operational excellence. The ideal candidate has experience building and scaling services, evolving legacy systems, and leading data and infrastructure teams. Glide is building a platform for non-technical users to create custom software, requiring a robust and scalable engineering stack. As an engineering manager, you will not write code but will engage in technical discussions and lead a team. You will facilitate standardization, drive integrations, design APIs, provide infrastructure, and ensure system protection and cost optimization. You will also cultivate a positive team environment, provide mentorship, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years engineering management experience
• Experiencing building and maintaining highly available and scalable distributed systems
• Have previously managed or built an infrastructure, developer experience, data, API, or equivalent platform team
• Deep understanding of Accelerate concepts of Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Mean Time to Recovery, Change Failure Rate and how they affect delivery
• You are a clear and effective communicator, be it when you write code, write emails, or explain complex technical issues to non-technical co-workers
• Passionate and self-motivated, with a demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced and evolving environment

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the standardization of Glide’s data sync and persistence infrastructure
• Drive integrations with data source platforms to be able to provide customers with new data sources at an accelerated pace
• Design, develop, and maintain a REST API into Glide’s data and core services
• Provide build, test, and runtime infrastructure to service teams
• Ensure patterns are established for database throttling and request rate limiting to protect Glide’s uptime
• Monitor infrastructure costs and coordinate improvements when necessary
• Drive SRE tooling and best practices around observability and alerting
• Cultivate an environment where team members are empowered through a collective sense of ownership and belonging
• Meet with team members 1-on-1 on a regular basis
• Ensure that team members learn, grow, and advance in their careers
• Create a shared understanding of decision making, direction, and progress for the team and the company
• Encourage an environment of technical excellence, and facilitate architectural discussions and decision making
• Provide technical project management support to the team, ensuring projects are scoped well for delivery, managed for risk, and delivered well
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and across team boundaries to deliver key parts of our roadmap

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data source platforms like Supabase, Airtable, Firestore, Sequin, Paragon
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform services like Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, AlloyDB, or equivalent
• Scaled an event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka, Cloud Pub/Sub, or other eventing system
• Have given conference talks around the OpenAPI spec, REST, or GraphQL API patterns
• Familiarity with telemetry and monitoring solutions like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Google Cloud Logging
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Supportive and dynamic remote work environment
• Opportunities for career growth