Chronosphere

Engineering Manager – Developer Experience

Chronosphere

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $220,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Distributed Systems

About the role

  • Partner with product manager, UX designer, and engineering leaders to nurture a culture of experimentation and disciplined incremental delivery.
  • Learn the product, observability market, and customer needs to contribute to product, prioritization, and design decisions.
  • Support engineers to own customer and business problems with strategic guidance.
  • Develop feedback loops with stakeholders including sales, account management, and support to align output with desired outcomes.
  • Balance work across individual contributors and create a healthy team environment.
  • Support and develop a team of engineers through feedback, coaching, and performance management.
  • Identify and remove impediments to foster team efficiency.
  • Be accountable for the reliability and performance of the team’s systems in production; ensure team has focus, tools, and processes to meet reliability standards.
  • Collaborate with other engineering and product leaders on organizational initiatives and partner with sister teams to deliver shared goals.
  • In first three months: learn platform, team roadmap, customers, tech stack, engineering practices; build relationships; manage direct reports, planning and execution.

Requirements

  • Experience partnering with product and design to make key decisions based on a strong knowledge of your customers.
  • Skills in setting up engineers for success on product development teams.
  • Experience coaching and developing software engineers of varied backgrounds and levels.
  • Ability to clarify ambiguous requirements and evolve them into actionable plans, driving team alignment and accountability.
  • Empathy and an understanding of how to support engineers to do their best work.
  • Ability to establish and change processes to empower the team to achieve their goals.
  • A high level of organization and the ability to manage multiple ambitious, concurrent projects from initial concept through delivery and production support.
  • Familiarity with enterprise software and software as a service.
  • Strong background in partnering with recruiting, making hiring decisions and closing hires, and building a diverse and inclusive team.