Engineering Manager - Spark

Role overview Manage an engineering team building infrastructure for a new generation of agent-oriented databases, designed to support very large numbers of database instances. The role centers on people leadership, team health, hiring, and predictable delivery; managers are expected to contribute to technical design discussions and uphold engineering quality, though direct coding is not required.

Responsibilities - Build a healthy, high-trust team across a remote, globally distributed environment; support career growth, onboarding, performance management, and day-to-day people needs. - Own team hiring, including interviews, candidate decisions, and coordination with recruiting; contribute to headcount and organization planning. - Set and manage the roadmap, milestones, and project workflow, keeping stakeholders informed through concise written updates. - Triage incoming cross-team requests, balance support work, and help the team meet its service-level objectives. - Identify risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs early and communicate them clearly to leadership. - Train for incident command, coordinate incident response, and lead blameless reviews and follow-up actions.

Requirements - Five or more years of engineering experience, with enough technical depth to engage credibly with engineers building complex systems. - At least three years managing remote engineering teams, ideally at a cloud, SaaS, or developer-tools organization. - Strong understanding of backend and database systems, including APIs, authentication, and Postgres access controls such as roles, grants, and row-level security. - Experience leading a team that shipped a developer-facing API or platform from an early stage into production. - Demonstrated ability to coach, give and receive timely feedback, handle performance challenges, and create psychological safety. - Clear written communication and sound judgment in ambiguous, asynchronous environments; comfortable with focused scoping and evaluation-driven development.

Nice to have - Experience with developer tools or databases; familiarity with both SQLite and Postgres ecosystems is useful. - Experience with globally distributed teams working across time zones.

Benefits and work setup Fully remote and globally hiring, with a coworking allowance or membership. Benefits include equity ownership, a technology allowance, health insurance coverage for employees and partial dependent coverage, an annual team gathering, flexible asynchronous work, and an annual professional development allowance.