About the Team
The HCP Terraform Foundations Engineering group is composed of SREs and Software Engineers working on the HCP Terraform hosted service. Our group ensures that the platform’s underlying infrastructure, data stores, and core foundational services are reliable, performant, and robust. We work closely with the engineering teams that ship features for both HCP Terraform and the Terraform Enterprise on-premise product. As our group expands, we’re seeking a manager to lead our Agent Engineering team.
This team is responsible for the design and implementation of the underlying services architecture for HCP Terraform, as well as ensuring that our TF-Agent related production services are scalable, reliable, and performant.This manager will be instrumental in shaping the identity of the team and their accomplishments, and will directly support the career growth and technical achievements of several talented and experienced engineers. If this sounds like an interesting opportunity, we’d love to meet you! We have a large footprint and a quickly-growing user base, with lots of interesting problems and plenty of opportunities for growth and development.
What you’ll do…
- Provide mission anddirection for the team:
- Work with senior leadership to develop a roadmap which supports the organization’s yearly goals for scale and growth objectives
- Lead the engineers in continuing to deliver forward-thinking projects and major improvements to our reliability and stability
- Foster the team’s growth:
- Mentor and coach the team, promoting their career growth and professional development
- Expand the team when needed, recruiting and interviewing new engineers which complement the team’s skills and experience
- Foster diversity, inclusion, and equity within the team and across our group
- Advocate for the team and their work:
- Work with other managers to understand shared dependencies, roadmap items, and potential blockers for the team
- Increase visibility for the team and publicly celebrate the team’s accomplishments
What you’ll need…
- 2+ years leading engineering teams for large-scale SaaS platforms
- 5 years backend engineering experience
- An interest in building a support structure for engineers to help them succeed at their job
- A dedication to modeling and supporting a positive and healthy work life balance
- Phenomenal communication skills for working across the organization, capable of building strong relationships with peers and leadership
- Experience managing a remote distributed team of reasonable size
What’s nice to have…
- Experience with managing both development and operational (i.e. Site Reliability Engineering) workstreams
- Qualified opinions about driving observability, reliability, and availability for large-scale distributed systems
- Exposure to systems software and services written in Go and Ruby on Rails monoliths
- A successful background partnering with PM
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Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training.The base pay range for this role in the SF Bay Area / NYC area is:$195,500—$230,000 USDThe base pay range for this role in Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, New York (excluding NYC), Washington D.C., or California (excluding SF Bay Area) is:$179,200—$210,800 USDThe base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro) and Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is:$162,900—$191,650 USD
