Head of Logging and Monitoring Products

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Requirements

Agile mindset and extensive experience with modern development practices
Experience managing, coaching and mentoring software engineers
Domain specific knowledge of logging, alerting and metrics solutions
Solid hands-on experience with operations of these technologies including complex HA setups
Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems

Nice to have

Shipping products and coordinating releases with relevant players
Developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support and product teams
End-to-end quality best practices and their implementation
Staffing, interviewing, building and retaining teams
Conveying complex ideas in written, verbal and presentational formats
Working knowledge of Kubernetes Operators and GoLang

Responsibilities

Managing and maintaining and recruiting an excellent engineering team
Planning and executing complex technical projects related to database service offerings
Collaboration with technical leads

Contribute to the overall architecture, design and development of database projects
Managing software project schedules in collaboration with project management
Maintain and improve team performance and quality of life
Developing processes to improve product performance and quality
Ensure successful product and feature rollouts, as well as reliable operations
Create a healthy team culture and transparent communication
Providing coaching and counseling via mentoring and one-to-one meetings
Planning and executing training for the engineering team

Role

The Logging and Monitoring PaaS team is seeking a highly motivated and experienced technical manager to support the engineers and lead the team that develops and runs the telemetry related products. This person will be responsible for motivating and monitoring engineers, provide coaching and aid in personal growth and development. This newly founded team will focus on developing and maintaining diagnostic services for enterprise customers, whether its Logging as a Service, Monitoring aaS, Alerting or Metrics Gathering. Like in any IT environment, the customers require insight into their applications health and well-being, as well as trend data and audit information.

The team goal is to solve these challenges by providing services so that the customers dont have to develop their own solutions. The team also provides third level support.

The stack is based on cloud native technologies, such as GoLang, Kubernetes, K8s operators and will offer the relevant tools for telemetry such as Cortex, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Loki, ELK et al.

We are looking for someone strongly familiar with teams and processes, who will be accountable for the engineering teams performance and quality. As such, you will also manage recruiting with the help of HR as we grow the team. This role reports into the Head of Engineering, Platform as a Service.