Senior Manager, Engineering - Data Fabric

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Core Data team as a Senior Manager, leading a new team developing infrastructure and services for event-driven architecture. You will enhance data visibility, work with senior leadership on roadmaps, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design teams, and improve team processes. This role requires strong management and technical skills, experience with distributed systems, and excellent communication. The ideal candidate will have experience building large-scale enterprise platforms and a passion for continuous improvement. HashiCorp offers a remote work environment and a commitment to a diverse team.

Requirements

• A college or university degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of software engineering management experience
• 5+ years engineering experience working on the following: Creating smart data, Backend applications, Pub/Sub systems, Observability, Services written in Go
• Strong communication skills, including written communication
• A successful background partnering with PM
• The ability to take in highly complex, deeply technical distributed systems concepts and relay them to stakeholders in a comprehensible way
• Experience breaking down large projects into small milestones
• Phenomenal communication skills for working across the organization, capable of building strong relationships with peers and leadership
• The ability to navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind

Responsibilities

• Work with senior leadership to develop a roadmap which supports the organization’s goals
• Support the career growth and morale of a team of skilled software engineers at varying skill levels, through setting goals, mentoring, and providing feedback
• Collaborate with Product and Design counterparts to scope and assess feasibility of initiatives
• Ensure larger efforts are broken down into achievable milestones
• Effectively triage incoming work requests from a variety of internal and external sources, ensuring the work most aligned with the team’s objectives is handled
• Improve processes to boost the team's productivity and reduce regressions
• Provide escalation support for oncall/customer incidents
• Continue to grow the team with kind, collaborative, and skilled engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• A background in leading engineering teams for large-scale enterprise platforms
• Experience building, scaling and debugging distributed, highly available systems
• Interest to take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution for our customers
• A passion for continuous improvement and learning