Engineering Manager-Database Platform
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About the Position
Ditto aims to expand the internet beyond traditional reach. Our groundbreaking software empowers devices to synchronize data in real-time, using cutting-edge, peer-to-peer database technology that runs on mobile, web, IoT, and server systems, automatically syncing data changes.
Help us ignite the future of highly scalable data synchronization as an Engineering Manager in Ditto's Cloud group! We are seeking a technical leader to drive innovation and expand the capabilities of our database platform.
Your role will involve guiding a talented team to build and enhance key backend systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to shape the future of our technology and the services that underpin it.
As the Engineering Manager, You Will:
- Lead, Mentor, and Grow: Guide and grow a team of 6–8 skilled and globally distributed engineers, supporting their technical success, career development, and personal growth. Provide mentorship and coaching to help team members achieve their full potential.
- Deliver Excellence: Plan and deliver high-quality solutions that meet business and technical goals.
- Contribute to Architecture: Be an active participant in the design and implementation of system architectures, focusing on scalability and reliability.
- Enhance Database Performance & Scalability: Drive optimizations for high-throughput, low-latency distributed databases, ensuring robust data consistency and fault tolerance.
- Shape the Roadmap: Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to build the team’s roadmap, incorporating input from customers, engineers, and researchers.
- Support Software Operations: Ensure the reliability, performance, and availability of systems by supporting software in production environments in partnership with our SRE team.
Foster Culture: Set an example by cultivating a culture of trust, collaboration, and continual improvement aligned with Ditto’s core values.
What You’ll Need:
- Management Experience: 3+ years managing software engineering teams, including responsibilities like hiring, performance management, and career development.
- Technical Expertise: 5+ years of technical leadership experience with a strong background in platform and database technologies, distributed systems, and similar domains.
- Deep Database Systems Knowledge: Experience designing, maintaining, and optimizing high-performance storage engines (such as RocksDB or similar), indexing strategies, and replication mechanisms.
- Platform and Database Product Expertise: Demonstrated experience delivering platform or infrastructure products and benchmarking, debugging, and optimizing distributed systems effectively.
- Collaborative Leadership: Proven ability to manage remote, globally distributed teams with strong asynchronous communication skills. Exceptional written and verbal communication to effectively convey complex ideas and align team efforts.
- Proactive Leadership: A high level of self-direction, autonomy, and responsibility in leading teams and driving projects forward.
Nice to Haves :
- Knowledge of technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, and experience managing cloud database applications.
- Understanding of CRDTs and their practical applications.
- Previous experience leading teams working with Rust as the primary programming language.
About the job
Engineering Manager-Database Platform
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Management jobs
About the Position
Ditto aims to expand the internet beyond traditional reach. Our groundbreaking software empowers devices to synchronize data in real-time, using cutting-edge, peer-to-peer database technology that runs on mobile, web, IoT, and server systems, automatically syncing data changes.
Help us ignite the future of highly scalable data synchronization as an Engineering Manager in Ditto's Cloud group! We are seeking a technical leader to drive innovation and expand the capabilities of our database platform.
Your role will involve guiding a talented team to build and enhance key backend systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to shape the future of our technology and the services that underpin it.
As the Engineering Manager, You Will:
- Lead, Mentor, and Grow: Guide and grow a team of 6–8 skilled and globally distributed engineers, supporting their technical success, career development, and personal growth. Provide mentorship and coaching to help team members achieve their full potential.
- Deliver Excellence: Plan and deliver high-quality solutions that meet business and technical goals.
- Contribute to Architecture: Be an active participant in the design and implementation of system architectures, focusing on scalability and reliability.
- Enhance Database Performance & Scalability: Drive optimizations for high-throughput, low-latency distributed databases, ensuring robust data consistency and fault tolerance.
- Shape the Roadmap: Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to build the team’s roadmap, incorporating input from customers, engineers, and researchers.
- Support Software Operations: Ensure the reliability, performance, and availability of systems by supporting software in production environments in partnership with our SRE team.
Foster Culture: Set an example by cultivating a culture of trust, collaboration, and continual improvement aligned with Ditto’s core values.
What You’ll Need:
- Management Experience: 3+ years managing software engineering teams, including responsibilities like hiring, performance management, and career development.
- Technical Expertise: 5+ years of technical leadership experience with a strong background in platform and database technologies, distributed systems, and similar domains.
- Deep Database Systems Knowledge: Experience designing, maintaining, and optimizing high-performance storage engines (such as RocksDB or similar), indexing strategies, and replication mechanisms.
- Platform and Database Product Expertise: Demonstrated experience delivering platform or infrastructure products and benchmarking, debugging, and optimizing distributed systems effectively.
- Collaborative Leadership: Proven ability to manage remote, globally distributed teams with strong asynchronous communication skills. Exceptional written and verbal communication to effectively convey complex ideas and align team efforts.
- Proactive Leadership: A high level of self-direction, autonomy, and responsibility in leading teams and driving projects forward.
Nice to Haves :
- Knowledge of technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, and experience managing cloud database applications.
- Understanding of CRDTs and their practical applications.
- Previous experience leading teams working with Rust as the primary programming language.