Cockroach Labs
tech
Manager,Engineering(ProductionOrchestration)
“Manager, Engineering (Production Orchestration) at Cockroach Labs. Skills: Production Orchestration, SRE principles, AI-driven approaches, Team leadership. Lead the Production Orchestration team. Own operational excellence”
Industry & Context.
Tackle problems head-on; Focus on solutions; Relentlessly reduce operational toil; Identify applied AI opportunities
On-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience leading global operations, Experience with incident management, Experience with response, Experience working on complex technical products, Experience with distributed systems, Experience with cloud infrastructure, Experience with container orchestration, Experience with large-scale fleet management, SRE background, Production Engineering background, Comfort with programming languages like Go, Comfort with programming languages like Python, Solid systems architecture knowledge, Experience with performance management, Partnered across departments
Nice to Have
Managed teams that coordinate across multiple time zones, Experience supporting workloads across multiple cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure), Built observability tooling, Leveraged observability tooling, Experience applying AI/ML to operational workflows, Familiarity with CockroachDB, Familiarity with distributed SQL databases
What You'll Do.
Lead the Production Orchestration team
Own operational excellence
Ensure team meeting SLAs
Run effective incident response
Improve operational posture
Drive automation and tooling
Reduce operational toil
Build systems for observability
Scale fleet without scaling headcount
Leverage AI to improve operations
Adopt AI-assisted development practices
Identify applied AI opportunities
Contribute to foundational architecture
Lead execution on architectural work
Coach and develop engineers
Provide direct feedback
Guide personal development
Ensure engineers achieve goals
Shape roadmap for operational capabilities
Shape roadmap for future products
Build and establish tools
Build and establish processes
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner across the global Production Engineering organization; Align on shared goals; Ensure smooth coordination across time zones; Drive cohesive execution; Collaborate across teams; Partner with engineering leadership; Partner with product leadership; Coordinate with internal teams; Coordinate with external partner teams
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