About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Cloud Integrations Team, balancing hands-on engineering with technical strategy and team development
- Oversee design, development, and maintenance of features such as queue splitting, database branching, and other integrations
- Remain hands-on in the codebase, delivering production-quality software and resolving complex technical challenges
- Define the team's technical approach, establish engineering standards, ensure reliability and maintainability
- Develop solutions involving Kubernetes, cloud services, databases, message brokers, and related infrastructure
- Identify and promote practical ways to use AI across engineering workflows
- Help determine priorities, remove blockers, support engineers, and ensure progress toward objectives
- Hire, mentor, and support engineers, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous learning
- Partner with Product, Solutions Engineering, and customers to shape features
Requirements
- At least 1 year of experience leading engineering teams
- At least 4 years of professional experience writing production-grade code in Rust (preferably), C++ or C
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native environments
- Strong systems-level thinking and troubleshooting of complex distributed systems
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
- Comfort working asynchronously in a remote-first startup environment
- Hands-on mindset and willingness to contribute directly to the codebase
- Nice to have: experience building developer tools, Kubernetes operators, familiarity with data stores, message brokers, and GitOps tools
Conditions
- Remote-first work environment within the US location scope
- Competitive salary (exact range not specified)
- Stock options
- Work at the intersection of local development, cloud infrastructure, and AI-assisted software engineering
- Contribution to an open-source product used by thousands of developers
- Small, high-caliber team
- Asynchronous collaboration with a meeting-light culture
- Professional growth in technical leadership