[Hiring] Engineering Manager, KUBE Team @Cast AI

Role Description

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to join our Product team. It is a hybrid role: you will manage a team and spend at least half your time in the product code.

Responsibilities as an Engineering Manager

• You own product development execution.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented software engineers.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Owner and stakeholders to align on requirements and roadmaps.
• Ensure quality, scalability, and resilience in all deliverables.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and technical excellence.
• Be the role model and champion of Cast AI core values.

Responsibilities as a Software Engineer

• You will work in a highly skilled team across the full development lifecycle.
• Take on scaling challenges at fleet level.
• Participate in feature brainstorming, requirement gathering, and solving customer needs.
• Design and architect software for scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Write clean, maintainable, documented code using best practices.
• Ensure reliability through test coverage and local testing.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and the monitoring and alerting stack.
• Respond to incidents to resolve customer issues or service disruptions.
• Support the team’s code (on-call week every few months).

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing and leading a technical team.
• Strong software engineering skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and experience managing multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure, APIs, and cloud-provider-specific implementation differences.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform.
• Proficient in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, ArgoCD) with a GitOps approach.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.

Benefits

• Competitive salary (up to €10,000 gross, depending on the level of experience).
• Enjoy a flexible, remote-first global environment.
• Collaborate with a global team of cloud experts and innovators, passionate about pushing the boundaries of Kubernetes technology.
• Equity options.
• Get quick feedback with a fast-paced workflow. Most feature projects are completed in 1 to 4 weeks.
• Spend 10% of your work time on personal projects or self-improvement.
• Learning budget for professional and personal development – including access to international conferences and courses that elevate your skills.
• Annual hackathon to spark new ideas and strengthen team bonds.
• Team-building budget and company events to connect with your colleagues.
• Equipment budget to ensure you have everything you need.
• Extra days off to help maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Hiring Process

• Screening call with Recruiter.
• Hiring Manager interview.
• Technical interview (system design).
• Live coding.
• Culture Check interview with an executive.

*As part of our standard hiring process, we would like to inform you that a background check may be conducted at the final stage of recruitment through our third-party provider, Checkr.

*Please note that Cast AI does not provide any form of visa sponsorship/work permit.