Engineering Manager - Serverless Compute

About Engineering Management at Scaleway

• Engineering Managers ensure product quality, stability, and cohesion
• Responsibilities include managing team effectiveness and satisfaction while focusing on high-impact products
• The role involves both management and technical tasks, requiring a balance between the two
• Scaleway values stability and performance, emphasizing service and engineering quality
• Engineering Managers must balance technical perfection with customer needs, working closely with Product Managers, SRE, and architect teams
• Flexibility in team management allows the use of preferred Agile methods
• Responsibilities include planning and architecting projects, integrating with other teams, and maintaining product stability and performance
• Engineering Managers also focus on team development, skill enhancement, and career progression

Responsibilities

• Act as the interface between product and engineering, making sure that we build the right solutions to the right problems for the right reasons
• Hire, manage, support and develop a team of up to ten engineers (career path, salary and compensation, personal knowledge and skills improvement)
• Design and build innovative features and products in the serverless compute space
• Run the day-to-day coordination of the team, monitoring ongoing projects, organizing the team’s work, and planning in the short- and long-term
• Ensure a good balance between technical debt management, rollouts, new features, and proofs-of-concept
• Work closely with our Product Managers and Marketing teams to synchronize releases and communications
• Build relationships with other teams across Scaleway, particularly those running our other serverless and Kubernetes products
• Collaborate with SRE and architecture teams to ensure your team is building stable, resilient systems, using the latest best practices
• Regularly contribute code to all Serverless Compute products, and stay up to date with the low-level details of all our systems
• Participate in the “doctoring” rota, responding to user issues and performing triage on incoming alerts and incidents
• Work on transversal initiatives within Scaleway’s Engineering Manager Guild

Preferred Management and Product Skills

• Minimum one year of engineering management experience
• Experience running Agile teams using either Scrum or Kanban
• Awareness of the serverless landscape and what products are on the market
• Experience working with non-development teams, including product, design, documentation
• Pragmatic mindset, knowing when to invest in perfection, and when to build a PoC
• Presentation and communication skills, capable of presenting technical ideas in a way that suits the audience
• Mentoring and coaching experience

Preferred Technical Skills

• Past experience in a technical/development role
• Dev-ops, SRE knowledge and experience
• Experience designing, building and running distributed systems
• Cluster management experience (Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm etc.)
• Software development experience (preferably Golang/Python)
• Sysadmin/dev-ops experience (Linux, Ansible, Terraform etc.)
• Experience building and scaling serverless applications