A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team always seeking new possibilities and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts ensuring exceptional client experiences with a focus on delivery excellence and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings now part of IBM which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency security and scalability in their cloud journey.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Graph Engine Team.
This team is building a new resource graph system to model connect and query infrastructure resources applications services and ownership.
The Graph Engine team ensures that all data flowing into the graph is reliably ingested and efficiently queryable. They own the data ingestion pipeline ETL and normalization logic indexing query performance and the underlying graph database implementation.
In this role you will:
· Provide direction and set expectations for a distributed remote-first team of backend engineers.
· Own the delivery and operational health of your team's services.
· Guide the team in making sound technical trade-offs while building distributed systems that are scalable reliable compliant secure and performant.
· Participate in an on call rotation to ensure we support our customers and our on call staff when they need it most.
· Partner with cross-functional leaders in Product Design and Customer Support Engineering to define roadmaps and technical strategies that support business goals.
· Foster diversity inclusion and equity within the team and across our organization.
· Help engineers grow their skills and careers.
Leaders are expected to spend time with their teams and clients and therefore are generally expected to be in the workplace a minimum of three days a week subject to business needs.
· 2+ years of experience in a direct people management role for a backend or data engineering team.
· Experience supporting highly-available business-critical production systems and a commitment to DevOps principles.
· Familiarity applying best practices for remote engineering work.
· Experience using modern delivery practices to manage cross-team initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
· Excellent communication skills: writing and speaking with clarity and brevity tailoring messages for different audiences keeping stakeholders informed delivering actionable feedback initiating crucial conversations even when it may be uncomfortable.
· Demonstrated business acumen and customer focus.
· A readiness for change and adaptability in dynamic situations.
Experience working with any of the following:
· Graph databases (e.g. Neptune Neo4j Dgraph) or graph data modeling
· Observability practices and tooling (Datadog Instana Honeycomb)
· Cloud infrastructure platforms (e.g. AWS GCP Azure)
· Data-intensive applications Pub/Sub systems (Google pub/sub AWS SQS) ETL pipelines data modeling or large-scale data processing
· Hashicorp products (Terraform or Vault in particular)