Engineering Manager - Solutions Engineering
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About the Role
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team of Python engineers building infrastructure automation solutions for large-scale cloud and bare-metal environments.
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Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of Python engineers, ensuring strong performance, career development, and technical excellence
- Drive the design and delivery of infrastructure automation and software solutions for large scale cloud and bare metal environments
- Contribute directly to codebases while providing technical leadership and setting high engineering standards
- Define, plan, and track execution of team objectives, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals
- Collaborate with product, operations, and engineering stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery priorities
- Foster a high quality engineering culture focused on testing, documentation, performance, and reliability
- Advocate for modern software development practices, agile methodologies, and continuous improvement
- Act as a key liaison between teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment across internal and external stakeholders
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and mentoring software engineering teams, ideally in a distributed or remote first environment
- Strong background in Python software development and hands on engineering experience
- Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts and modern infrastructure technologies (e.g., OpenStack, Kubernetes)
- Experience with Linux systems administration and familiarity with storage, networking, and system operations
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including design, testing, and scalable system architecture
- Ability to balance technical depth with people leadership, coaching, and organizational alignment
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non technical stakeholders
- Experience in agile environments and delivering complex software projects iteratively
- Strong problem solving skills and a proactive mindset focused on ownership and continuous improvement
- Bonus: experience with infrastructure as code, multi cloud environments, or Go programming
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Role Overview
- This role sits at the intersection of software engineering leadership, cloud infrastructure, and customer facing technical delivery.
- You will lead a distributed team of Python engineers focused on building and evolving infrastructure automation solutions that power large scale systems such as private clouds, Kubernetes environments, and bare metal operations.
- The work combines hands on technical leadership with people management, requiring you to guide architecture decisions while also coaching engineers in their day to day growth.
- You will collaborate closely with operations teams and stakeholders to translate real world infrastructure challenges into scalable, model driven solutions.
- This is a highly impactful role where your leadership directly influences product direction, engineering culture, and customer success.
- You will operate in a globally distributed environment with strong autonomy, high expectations, and a focus on engineering excellence.
Accountabilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of Python engineers, ensuring strong performance, career development, and technical excellence.
- Drive the design and delivery of infrastructure automation and software solutions for large scale cloud and bare metal environments.
- Contribute directly to codebases while providing technical leadership and setting high engineering standards.
- Define, plan, and track execution of team objectives, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals.
- Collaborate with product, operations, and engineering stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery priorities.
- Foster a high quality engineering culture focused on testing, documentation, performance, and reliability.
- Advocate for modern software development practices, agile methodologies, and continuous improvement.
- Act as a key liaison between teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment across internal and external stakeholders.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and mentoring software engineering teams, ideally in a distributed or remote first environment.
- Strong background in Python software development and hands on engineering experience.
- Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts and modern infrastructure technologies (e.g., OpenStack, Kubernetes).
- Experience with Linux systems administration and familiarity with storage, networking, and system operations.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including design, testing, and scalable system architecture.
- Ability to balance technical depth with people leadership, coaching, and organizational alignment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non technical stakeholders.
- Experience in agile environments and delivering complex software projects iteratively.
- Strong problem solving skills and a proactive mindset focused on ownership and continuous improvement.
- Bonus: experience with infrastructure as code, multi cloud environments, or Go programming.
Benefits
- Competitive global compensation with performance based bonuses.
- Fully remote, distributed work environment with global collaboration.
- Annual learning and development budget to support continuous growth.
- Regular in person team sprints and international company gatherings.
- Comprehensive health and wellness support programs.
- Generous annual leave and parental leave policies.
- Travel opportunities to collaborate with global teams and attend company events.
- Recognition rewards and annual compensation reviews.
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