Manager II, Production Engineering

full-time

Posted on: 9/25/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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💰 $170,371 - $350,763 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

AnsibleAWSAzureChefCloudDockerElasticSearchGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxPuppetSaltStackSDLCTensorflowTerraformZookeeper

About the role

Lead our engineers to deliver on the biggest impact work across engineering to ensure we’re infusing best practices into our products relating to reliability, scalability, performance and efficiency
Drive technical architecture discussions; including being capable of driving and decision making for technology or applications that you have not had previous experience with
Continuously assess your team’s performance, address and coach under-performance, and recognize and promote high performance
Create an inclusive and welcoming workplace where every team member feels valued and supported
Foster an environment of open and honest communication, allowing team members to be safe to fail, encourage risk taking with a fail-fast mentality, and establish forums where they can share their ideas
Empower engineers to develop their careers, matching their strengths with projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles
Create an inspiring team charter and direction that align with the goals of the broader Production Engineering organization
Develop strong partnerships with Product & Program Management partners across infrastructure by communicating a clear and impactful vision and priorities
Establish team norms around planning, execution, and continuous improvement
In-office requirement: role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

3+ years experience managing teams within an SRE, Production Engineering or other Platform/Infrastructure organizations
Customer obsession: Demonstrated ability to work cohesively and build relationships with partners across engineering disciplines and capable of influencing without authority
Familiarity with the concepts and use cases for SDLC including SCM tools, Build platforms, test frameworks, CI/CD products
Familiar with usage and high level architecture of data platform technologies such as relational databases, storage & caching, key value stores, time series data stores, etc.
Strong domain expertise in reliability concepts and best practices with the ability to innovate and provide thought leadership and direction in this problem space
Hands on familiarity with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Knowledge of Linux systems internals and networking
Thrive in an environment with a lot of ambiguity with the ability to be self sufficient and ruthlessly prioritize the highest impact projects
Infrastructure technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Tensorflow, ElasticSearch, ZooKeeper, and Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Fabric, etc)
Heavy bias toward action; able to drive resolution and making quick decisions balancing being data driven along with leveraging your experience & judgement