Engineering Manager-Big Peer

Help us ignite the future of data synchronization as an Engineering Manager for the Big Peer team at Ditto! We are seeking an engineering manager to help us lead the Big Peer team and expand the product’s capabilities!

Your role is to lead our Big Peer team of database engineers. Help us to improve its query capabilities, scalability, and reliability. Expand and grow the team, work with product managers to shape the future of the product, and deliver on key enhancements to the core database.

As the Engineering Manager, you will:

• Lead and magnify the impact of a team of 5-7 skilled individual contributors, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work.
• Plan and deliver high-quality engineering solutions that align with the business needs and objectives.
• Be an active part of the design and implementation of the system architecture.
• Work with product and design to build the roadmap for the team. This could also involve talking to engineers, researchers, other teams, customers, and partners.
• Estimate the delivery timeline for projects and communicate with upper management and the broader team regarding project execution.
• Set team culture by example, expanding Ditto’s culture of Trust, Communication, and Continual Improvement.
• Mentor, coach, and advocate for your team members.

What you’ll need:

• 3+ years of experience managing teams of software engineers. This includes people-management responsibilities such as hiring, performance and growth management, and career development.
• 5+ years of technical leadership, including driving best practices, project scoping and design, and providing architectural guidance.
• Technical understanding through software engineering experience, especially caching, distributed systems, and databases.
• An ability to thrive with a high level of self-direction, autonomy, and responsibility.
• Experience managing a remote, globally distributed team.
• A willingness to travel (including internationally) once a quarter for team get togethers.
• Strong communication skills, particularly written communication skills. As a fully distributed team, async communication is the norm and the development process often includes written RFCs. 

Nice to Haves: 

• Experience with distributed systems, analytical databases, database internals, and storage systems.
• Experience delivering infrastructure and/or database products.
• Experience with storage engines like RocksDB.
• Familiarity with Kafka, K8s, and/or managing database applications in the cloud.
• Experience benchmarking, debugging and optimizing distributed database systems.
• Familiarity with CRDTs.
• Prior experience leading a team of Rust and/or database engineers.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent