TL;DR

Senior Manager, Engineering (Data Services): Leading multiple engineering teams to develop and operate cutting-edge managed datastore-as-a-service products built on Postgres, Redis, and Apache Kafka with an accent on system scalability, robustness, availability, and security. Focus on fostering high-performing, collaborative cultures in a globally distributed environment and driving operational excellence for high-scale distributed systems.

Location: Remote options are available in: United Kingdom (Northern Ireland), Netherlands, or Spain (Barcelona, Madrid).

Company

%hirify_global% is the #1 AI CRM, where ambition meets action, tech meets trust, and innovation is a way of life.

What you will do

Provide line management, including hiring, performance, career development, and retention for multiple engineering teams.
Participate in technical discussions, architecture reviews, and design decisions for database technologies and distributed systems.
Serve as an experienced Agile/Scrum practitioner, facilitating sprint planning, refinement, and retrospectives.
Drive innovations to improve system scalability, robustness, availability, and security using telemetry and metrics.
Collaborate with Product Management and cross-functional leaders to deliver on shared roadmaps.
Oversee on-call rotations, operational readiness, deployment automation, and incident response best practices.

Requirements

7+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on technical contributions.
3+ years managing software engineering teams with a track record of building high-performing cultures.
2+ years managing distributed/remote teams.
Proven Agile/Scrum Master experience or project management experience.
Strong engineering background with database technologies (Postgres, Redis, Apache Kafka, or similar).
Proficiency in object-oriented programming languages (Ruby, Go, or Python).
Experience with AWS infrastructure and automated testing frameworks.
Demonstrated experience operating high-scale distributed systems in production.
Excellent communication skills in async-first, globally distributed environments.

Nice to have

Background in site reliability engineering (SRE) or DevOps practices.
Experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) or Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) environments.
Experience designing and managing services for stateful applications at scale.

Culture & Benefits

Foster an environment with autonomy and accountability for engineers to do their best work.
Build and sustain high-performing, collaborative cultures.
Work in an async-first, globally distributed environment.
Focus on career growth for team members.