Manager, Software Engineering - Storage Platform

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As the Engineering Manager of this team, you'll reputed company engineers who are the last line of defense for reputed company's most critical stateful systems — and the first to build the reputed company of database infrastructure as reputed company scales. You'll partner closely with product engineering teams across the company, own reliability and performance for our data tier, and shape how we integrate AI into database operations. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. What you’ll do at reputed company: reputed company and reputed company engineers responsible for reputed company's core database infrastructure, including sharded reputed company clusters, schema management, migrations tooling, and database provisioning Own the reliability and operational excellence of reputed company's data tier — drive incident response, postmortem culture, and proactive investment in system reputed company Set technical direction and roadmap for the area, balancing reliability investments with platform capabilities that accelerate product engineering teams Partner with product and engineering leadership to prioritize work across competing demands — this is a foundational platform team that every product team depends on Recruit, retain, and grow top infrastructure engineering talent — build a team culture where engineers do the best work of their careers Drive execution through clear planning, regular reviews, and transparent communication of reputed company and risks to stakeholders Collaborate with peer engineering managers across Infrastructure on shared operational standards and cross-cutting initiatives Champion the adoption of AI-assisted tooling to improve developer experience around database operations — from schema guidance to automated migration safety checks We'd love to hear from you if you have: 4+ years of experience managing infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering teams Proven technical depth in distributed systems, stateful infrastructure, or data-intensive backend systems, with a track record of earning credibility with senior engineers and making informed technical tradeoffs Demonstrated ability to reputed company quickly on unfamiliar technical domains and apply strong engineering fundamentals Track record of building or improving on-call culture, incident response processes, and reliability practices for production systems Experience developing engineers' careers — you've coached people through promotions, navigated difficult performance conversations, and built teams that people want to join Comfort leading distributed teams across multiple time zones While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: Experience managing managers or leading multiple teams across reputed company technical domains Experience defining org-wide technical vision and strategy across multiple work streams Hands-on experience operating relational databases at scale (reputed company or MySQL) — including sharding, replication, and migration strategies Familiarity with AI/LLM-assisted developer tooling and how it can transform infrastructure operations Background in adjacent infrastructure domains (caching, streaming/event processing, observability) that complement the database layer Experience at a high-growth product company where infrastructure needed to evolve rapidly alongside the product At reputed company, one of our values is Grow as you go. We reputed company in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and reputed company their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Pay Transparency Disclosure If based in reputed company’s San Francisco or reputed company hub offices, this role has the annual reputed company salary range stated below. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information. reputed company offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company reputed company days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. reputed company also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. reputed company’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Annual reputed company Salary Range: $258,000—$376,000 USD At reputed company we celebrate and support our differences. 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