Engineering Manager - Core Infrastructure

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.

Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 295,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

The Core Platform team focuses on creating a delightful developer experience that empowers engineers to build their features quickly and safely. We build paved roads so that product engineers can focus their efforts on building features that serve our neighbors and drive our business. We create infrastructure that makes the easy things work out of the box and the hard things possible. We build performance and scalability into the platform itself so that the application is safe and fast by default.  

As the Engineering Manager for the Core Monolith team, you will lead the team which is responsible for one of our most critical products: the tools product backend engineers use to build Nextdoor every day. As the leader of this team, you will exercise both technical judgment and empathetic leadership skills to guide the team as we build the infrastructure to unlock the next level of growth at Nextdoor. You’ll work with product engineers to understand their pain points and identify high leverage opportunities to improve developer experience, and scalability of our systems. Our goal is for the infrastructure to do the heavy lifting so that our product engineers can spend every minute of their time focused on their product areas and metrics.

Some of the areas of focus include:

• Developing a rich, async, type-safe ORM layer to replace Django’s ORM in Python
• Horizontal performance observability and optimization patterns
• Fostering shared ownership, collective responsibility and conventions around Python, including type safety, API patterns and conventions
• End to end ownership of the development workflow for monolith engineering
• Shared foundational code and libraries

• 2+ years of people management, leading teams responsible for mission critical infrastructure and related services
• 5+ year or equivalent experience in backend Software Engineering, ideally with a focus in Python
• Operational experience with distributed systems at scale
• Experience with performance, automation, monitoring, and capacity planning

• Experience scaling Python infrastructure to support widely adopted consumer product

At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.