Cognite

Engineering Manager, Industrial Experiences

Cognite

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Oslo • 🇳🇴 Norway

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Own the end-to-end mission and capacity of your team (6-10 engineers), executing on applications and services that operate at global industrial scale. Continuously refine the team's structure, tooling, and processes to optimize throughput and technical agility.
  • Drive operational excellence and serve as the technical authority for your domain. Ensure all engineering artifacts meet the highest internal bar for quality and maintainability, ensuring system architecture and operational decisions maximize throughput while driving cost efficiency and managing cloud expenditure.
  • Lead team-level architecture and strategic direction. Drive architectural trade-offs (short-term impact vs. long-term quality/debt) that directly impact the platform's scalability and reliability.
  • Guarantee predictable delivery while proactively mitigating technical risk and debt. Act as the primary point of contact for cross-functional stakeholders, using a candid, solution-oriented approach to resolve high-stakes dependencies.
  • Coach engineers on their development. Actively model and enforce a culture of radical candor and high-performance accountability. Dedicate time to identifying and mentoring successor talent within the team.
  • Ensure the team's engineering outcomes are directly traceable to customer value and company revenue drivers by owning the feedback loop from production data to product execution.

Requirements

  • People Leadership: 5+ years of direct people management experience is strongly preferred. You have a proven history of coaching engineers and/or scaling complex engineering teams through periods of change and ambiguity.
  • Strategic Background: You possess experience from a high-bar engineering culture (e.g., top-tier B2B SaaS, hyper-scaler, or leading platform company) with a track record of driving change in a complex, multi-product environment.
  • Technical Depth: Deep expertise in building and operating fault-tolerant, low-latency, high-volume data processing systems at exabyte scale (P99 reliability). You understand the cost-to-serve implications of architectural decisions.
  • Architectural Versatility & Innovation: Demonstrated experience designing, launching, and managing strategic architectural pivots (e.g., shift from monolithic to composable systems). You are a builder of platforms, not just applications.
  • Stakeholder management: You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, adept at aligning executives and external partners with organizational objectives, including interactions with senior leadership.
Benefits
  • Join an organization of 60 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝
  • A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
  • Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers
  • Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries, with cutting edge technology
  • Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
  • Get access to private health services with Cognite Care.
  • A subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by the chefs at Fornebuporten (Aker Tech House)
  • Our own Cognite exclusive coffee bar ☕ with the friendliest baristas is here to brew coffee for coffee lovers, tea for tea lovers, smoothie for smoothie lovers, and the baristas creative concoctions when the mood strikes.
  • We take your mental- and physical health seriously by having a broad health offering and a free membership to our fully-staffed gym on-site.
  • A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot at the Robot Garden!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
data processing systemsfault-tolerant systemslow-latency systemshigh-volume systemsarchitectural designsystem architecturecloud expenditure managementtechnical risk mitigationscalabilityreliability
Soft skills
people leadershipcoachingcommunicationstakeholder managementstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingmentoringhigh-performance accountabilityradical candorsolution-oriented approach