[Hiring] Sr Manager, Engineering @Kentik

Role Description

As a leader in platform engineering of both the Ingest and Network Data Team, you will lead the team in designing, and scaling a high-performance, data ingest and critical enrichments that plays a critical role for some of the most influential companies on the internet.

• Mentor and lead a growing organization responsible for both the high-volume ingestion pipelines and the complex network data enrichment services.
• Provide thought leadership in designing and scaling distributed systems that ingest trillions of records while performing real-time enrichments on network metadata.
• Take broad concepts and define requirements, approach, and success metrics.
• Contribute hands-on on both greenfield and maintenance projects, including bootstrapping large and/or new products.
• Drive engineering best practices through code reviews, automated testing, and comprehensive documentation to maintain platform reliability.
• Collaborate with other engineering, support, and sales teams to drive platform-wide storage standards and alignment with customer demands.
• Participate in our recruiting and hiring process.

Qualifications

• Prior experience as an engineering manager or technical lead.
• Deep, hands-on leadership experience in a SaaS and/or startup environment.
• The ability to balance "the right way" (engineering excellence) with speed to market, ensuring buy-in from both engineers and stakeholders.
• Subject matter expertise in highly scalable data ingestion, network data enrichment, the management of massive time-series datasets, cloud, and/or observability.
• Strong organizational skills.
• A strong desire to learn and master new technologies, architectures, and market requirements as the platform expands.

Requirements

• Our core data engine and platform are primarily written in Go.
• We use Node.js + Express for application serving, and React as our primary UI framework.
• Tooling: JS and Python for tooling and scripting.
• Infrastructure & Messaging: Kafka for streaming pipelines, Redis for caching, and Postgres/MySQL for metadata.
• APIs & Routing: REST/JSON and gRPC endpoints via HAProxy and Envoy.
• Operations: GitHub for source control, Jenkins for CI/CD, and Jira for project tracking.

Benefits

• 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents.
• Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family.
• Paid family & medical leave.
• Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays.
• 401(k) retirement account.
• Home office reimbursement.
• Stock options.