Cockroach Labs
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Manager,Engineering
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“Manager, Engineering at Cockroach Labs. Skills: engineering management, platform engineering, infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud platforms, AI innovation, people leadership. Lead and grow one or more platform engineering teams in India. Provide engineers with resources and access to help them accomplish their goals”
What You'll Achieve.
ensure cross-geo collaboration is successful; create a culture of excellence and accountability in the site; align on priorities while maintaining autonomy for local execution; ensure coordination of platform, product, and infrastructure initiatives as we scale; managing performance and making sure that our engineers are achieving their goals is essential to retaining a high-performing team; making sure that each member of your team is working on projects that align with both our needs and their interests; shape their career development
Industry & Context.
tackle problems head-on; focus on solutions that create lasting impact; product and architecture intuition with a systems-thinking mindset - able to see how different teams' work interconnects across a platform
Comfort collaborating with stakeholders across different time zones and geo locations in a remote office environment
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of overall engineering experience, at least 2-4 years in engineering management or technical leadership roles, Experience managing platform, infrastructure, developer tools, or cloud services engineering teams, Comfort collaborating with stakeholders across different time zones and geo locations in a remote office environment, Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), distributed systems, and infrastructure software, Exposure to programming languages such as Go, Python, or comfort with backend and infrastructure codebases, product and architecture intuition with a systems-thinking mindset, A passion for building relationships and a genuine sense of responsibility for the welfare of the engineering team you manage, including their professional development and growth, Experience with performance management, including understanding the importance of building an effective team that can function independently while collaborating and supporting each other, Experience partnering across departments and ensuring coordination with internal teams (e. g. , Product, Documentation, Marketing, Support)
Nice to Have
Kubernetes a plus
What You'll Do.
Lead and grow one or more platform engineering teams in India
Provide engineers with resources and access to help them accomplish their goals
Partner closely with engineering and product leadership to define and drive the engineering roadmap for platform capabilities
Coach and provide direct feedback to your team to guide personal development and growth
Manage performance and ensure engineers are achieving their goals
Foster a high-performance
and growth-oriented culture
Champion effective cross-geo collaboration
Bring technical understanding and platform architecture knowledge
Continually deepen knowledge of distributed systems and platform infrastructure
Engage with the broader tech community through tech talks
Encourage team participation in events
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with managers across teams to tackle people management challenges; Ensure coordination of platform, product, and infrastructure initiatives; Champion effective cross-geo collaboration, ensuring engineering partnerships across time zones and geographies; Partner with the Senior of Platform Engineering, HR, Recruiting and other stakeholders; Tightly collaborate with functional leaders and managers cross-geo to align on priorities; Ensure coordination with internal teams (e. g. , Product, Documentation, Marketing, Support)
Communication Scope
partnering across departments; ensuring coordination with internal teams
Process & Methodology
driving engineering excellence, driving the engineering roadmap, quarterly planning process
Full Job Description
Category-defining tech. Career-defining work. Lots of tech companies disrupt. But, many fail when they try to scale. We're different. CockroachDB makes it easier for companies to build and scale apps. This is how and why we're helping some of the most innovative companies on the planet. We tackle problems head-on and focus on solutions that create lasting impact. Because when our customers win, we all win. The Role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead teams within our Platform Engineering organization in India. Platform Engineering at Cockroach Labs is the backbone of CockroachDB and CockroachDB Cloud - encompassing observability, supportability, monetization and billing, engineering productivity, and test engineering teams. Beyond building the core infrastructure, Platform Engineering is the team at the frontier of AI innovation - developing and embedding AI-powered capabilities that enable every engineering team across Cockroach Labs to build faster, operate smarter, and innovate at scale. This is where infrastructure meets intelligence, and engineers here have a unique opportunity to shape the future of software development with an AI-first mindset. This is a key leadership role responsible for driving engineering excellence across these critical platform infrastructure domains at our India site. As an Engineering Manager in the India site, you will have a direct impact on how the organization is structured and built to ensure cross-geo collaboration is successful. You will partner with the Senior EM of Platform Engineering, HR, Recruiting and other stakeholders to create a culture of excellence and accountability in the site. You will tightly collaborate with functional leaders and managers cross-geo to align on priorities while maintaining autonomy for local execution. You Will Lead and grow one or more platform engineering teams in India, with the scope to expand to additional teams over time. Help engineers successfully navigate their day-to-day b
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