[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Map Ssg

Role Description

The company is hiring an Engineering Manager to build and lead a team focused on object storage and stateful services. This is a highly technical management role for someone who can develop engineers, set architectural direction, and help take a new infrastructure product from early design through production launch.

• Build, hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team
• Own performance management, feedback, coaching, and career development
• Set technical direction and participate deeply in architecture and system-design decisions
• Lead development of a greenfield object-storage platform and future stateful-service abstractions
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Design, and customers on roadmap and product decisions
• Balance engineering velocity with reliability, scalability, security, and operational quality
• Help define the developer experience around storage and other persistent infrastructure
• Lead complex distributed-systems projects from concept through production

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years managing and developing engineers, including hiring and performance management
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, DevTools, or highly scalable backend systems
• Experience designing or operating stateful services at scale
• Strong architecture and systems-design judgment
• Comfortable managing highly senior engineers while remaining technically engaged
• Experience taking ambiguous or greenfield infrastructure projects from design to production
• Strong product instincts and ability to connect infrastructure decisions to developer/customer experience

Requirements

• Experience with one or more of the following is particularly valuable:
• Object storage or blob storage
• S3-compatible systems
• Distributed databases or storage engines
• Stateful cloud services
• Replication, durability, consistency, partitioning, or failure recovery
• Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure
• Large-scale developer platforms

Compensation & Location

• Base salary: $204,000–$289,000 + equity