Starburst is hiring a
Senior Manager, Engineering

Summary

The job is for a Senior Manager, Engineering position at Starburst, a remote-first company that offers a data lake analytics platform. The role involves leading an engineering team to develop their SaaS platform, providing support and guidance, driving the vision for serverless SaaS, helping employees grow, owning and maintaining services, collaborating on roadmaps, acting as an ambassador for Starburst, and recruiting top talent.

Requirements

• You have a track record of leading distributed systems engineering and operations teams in software companies
• You 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
• You are passionate about engineering hygiene and operational excellence
• You are familiar with agile processes, continuous integration, and test automation
• You are a strategic thinker as it relates to scale and removing humans from the loop
• You thrive when operating in broad scope, from conception through the continuous operation of 24x7 services to defined SLA’s
• You distill complex and ambiguous situations into actionable plans for your team
• You 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 achieve sustained high velocity and predictability
• Drive and deliver the vision for serverless SaaS and end to end functionality for data lake analytics platform covering ingestion, data management and governance
• 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