Engineering Manager (Durable Objects)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Durable Objects): Leading a team to shape industry-leading serverless and edge data services, leveraging hirify.global's global network for unparalleled performance and data residency requirements. Focus on architecting and building the next generation of solutions and empowering the team to reach their full potential.

Location: Hybrid in Austin, TX

Company

hirify.global runs one of the world's largest programmable networks, aiming to build a better Internet by providing unique developer tools through its Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) group.

What you will do

• Lead a team shaping the future of industry-leading serverless and edge data services.
• Set ambitious goals for your team and identify a path for reaching those goals.
• Provide opportunities and mentorship for your team to reach their full potential.
• Take ownership of the code the team delivers from inception to release.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure all aspects of your services delight customers.
• Architect and build the next generation of serverless and edge data solutions.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience working with distributed systems.
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading engineering teams.
• Experience building and operating high performance software applications.
• Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale distributed system.
• A solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
• Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language: we primarily use C++, Rust, and TypeScript.

Nice to have

• Experience directly managing a team of systems software engineers.
• Experience working on distributed storage systems or programming language runtimes.
• Experience working on critical software infrastructure.
• Experience working directly with customers.
• Deep Linux / UNIX systems knowledge.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
• Mission to help build a better Internet and protect the free and open Internet.
• Supports Project Galileo, equipping journalism and civil society organizations with defense tools.
• Contributes to the Athenian Project, providing protection and reliability for state and local government election websites.
• Released 1.1.1.1, a faster, more secure, and privacy-centric public DNS resolver that does not store client IP addresses.
• Provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.