Engineering Manager, Object Storage
Remote — US | Full-Time | $204K–$289K Base + Equity
Fast-growing developer cloud platform used by millions of developers to build, deploy, and scale modern applications. The company has raised $250M+ and is continuing to expand its core infrastructure platform.
They’re hiring an Engineering Manager to build and lead a team focused on object storage and stateful services. This is a highly technical management role for someone who can develop engineers, set architectural direction, and help take a new infrastructure product from early design through production launch.
What You’ll Do
- Build, hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team
- Own performance management, feedback, coaching, and career development
- Set technical direction and participate deeply in architecture and system-design decisions
- Lead development of a greenfield object-storage platform and future stateful-service abstractions
- Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Design, and customers on roadmap and product decisions
- Balance engineering velocity with reliability, scalability, security, and operational quality
- Help define the developer experience around storage and other persistent infrastructure
- Lead complex distributed-systems projects from concept through production
What They’re Looking For
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years managing and developing engineers, including hiring and performance management
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, DevTools, or highly scalable backend systems
- Experience designing or operating stateful services at scale
- Strong architecture and systems-design judgment
- Comfortable managing highly senior engineers while remaining technically engaged
- Experience taking ambiguous or greenfield infrastructure projects from design to production
- Strong product instincts and ability to connect infrastructure decisions to developer/customer experience
Especially Relevant
Experience with one or more of the following is particularly valuable:
- Object storage or blob storage
- S3-compatible systems
- Distributed databases or storage engines
- Stateful cloud services
- Replication, durability, consistency, partitioning, or failure recovery
- Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure
- Large-scale developer platforms
Compensation & Location
Base salary: $204,000–$289,000 + equity