Senior Manager, Engineering (Data Services)

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.