Senior Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

Do you want to change the world? At Cabify, that’s what we’re doing. We aim to make cities better places to live by improving mobility for the people living in them, connecting riders to drivers at the touch of a button. Maybe one day cities will be places where nobody needs a private car. But we’ve still got a long way to go...fancy joining us?About the role As an Infra Engineering Manager at Cabify, you will be responsible for leading and guiding the most important part of our engineering organization - our people.They have high interaction with other teams and business areas. This means nurturing our culture of collaboration, communication, and coordination between and within teams.All these tasks deeply impact Cabify's ability to be a profitable business, and they involve processing data in high volumes with precision and speed, offering a unique challenge from a purely engineering point of view.We practice having strong ownership of our services, continuous integration, strive for high observability, engage in constant peer code reviews & pair programming, and work hard to give back to the software community through open-source contributions.Prior to taking on engineering management, you likely were a senior individual contributor with a comprehensive understanding of complex systems that you were a vital part of developing & launching over the years. This has given you the perspective to help other engineers prioritise their tasks, shape their career decisions, and face tricky challengesYou will: Lead a team of diverse and talented SRE engineers with different levels of expertiseDrive technical projects to success and provide leadership in a fast-paced environmentThink critically about the long-term career development of team membersConduct regular check-ins and 1-1s with team membersCommunicate across cross-functional teams such as Product, Analytics, fraud and Security.Lead prioritization efforts and provide mentorship to othersAnalyse and define Roadmaps creating impact for Cabify’s product engineersDeeply care about the happiness of othersDirectly report (and get support from) the Head of Engineering of your group
Our Ideal candidate has:Great alignment with our principles, we take this very seriously.A knack for effective and clear communication in all circumstancesHands-on people management and/or technical leadership experienceA passion for bringing great products into our world through collaboration and ingenuityExtensive professional experience in backend software development, working on robust, complex systems that serve a high volume of usersAn appreciation for engineering best practices and quality over quantity of work
Bonus Points:Ability to handle ambiguous problems and make the tradeoffs without compromising qualityExperience working with remote and partially remote team membersAbility to understand, diagnose, and effectively articulate technical challenges and solutionsExperience with Kubernetes, Grafana and AWS.Experience with distributed system communication, performance analysis, and optimizationExperience with Gitlab maintenance scalabilityExperience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, microservices, and relational/NoSQL/cloud databasesExperience managing different SRE verticals such as Runtime, Networking, Observability and Persistence