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Senior Software Engineering Manager

Location
Redmond, WA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Director
Experience
6+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
28 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Linux
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • distributed systems
  • monitoring and observability tools

Also useful

  • Grafana
  • Datadog
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Bicep
  • hybrid cloud

About the role

Team leadership: Lead a team of experienced SREs to ensure uptime, resiliency and fault tolerance of hybrid on-prem and Azure ad serving systems Observability: Design and help maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to provide real-time visibility into platform performance Automation & Tooling: Lead building of automation for deployments, incident response, scaling, and failover in hybrid cloud/on-prem environments.

Incident Management: Lead on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive continuous improvements. Security & Compliance: Ensure data privacy, compliance, and secure operations across serving environments. Collaboration: Partner with ML engineers and platform teams to improve developer experience and accelerate research-to-production workflows.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

4+ years managing Linux and open source systems. 4+ years people management experience. 6+ years experience in monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.). Experience migrating complex systems from on-prem to public cloud Experience using Infrasturcture-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Bicep) to manage complex systems Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines Solid knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and storage.

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