Engineering Manager - LIVE Services

Job Description

• Lead a team of diverse, hardworking, and driven software engineers who specialize in running high throughput, reliable services.

• Build and foster a team culture that is positive, encouraging, inclusive, and engaging.

• Coach and mentor the professional development of each direct report through personal and performance management.

• Give engineers the tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to the recognition of your engineers and not just yourself.

• Be responsible for the group’s technical strategy and roadmap – creating success metrics in close collaboration with other Engineering, Product Managers, Design, and Research.

• Bring a strong perspective that inspires change and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems.

• Contribute to product vision by participating in research and design explorations to solve customer problems (not just help team execute effectively on predetermined bodies of work).

• Work with tech leads and senior engineers to gather requirements, gut check new feature proposals and large improvements.

• Work closely with the Twitter recruiting team to hire high-potential candidates from diverse backgrounds.

Qualifications

• You have experience leading engineers at all levels and you’re skilled at coaching and guiding your directs through their career development.

• You are customer focused, with ability to offer input on high level solutions to customer problems that helps drive product roadmap.

• You have experience building and deploying highly scalable systems that deliver product value.

• You have a technical background and are able to contribute to planning and design discussions, and are comfortable diving into the fray to help drive resolution in the case of bad incidents.

• You are a strong advocate of software engineering methodologies and bring a disciplined approach to testing, continuous delivery, and reducing technical debt.

• You are excited to engage multi-functional partners to help achieve a common goal for our customers.

• You have a collaborative working style with a strong focus on execution and results.

• You like to ground decisions in data and reasoning and solve root causes of problems rather than surface issues.

• You are adept at communicating relevant information clearly and concisely.

• You look ahead to find opportunities and foster a culture of innovation.

Qualifications:

• B.S. or Masters in Computer Science with 5+ years of experience

• 2+ years of experience managing software engineering teams

• Previously managed a team of 5+ engineers with responsibility for a reasonably complex system in production

Additional Information

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