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Hands-on Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · EMEA
Experience
Senior · 7+ years
Job description
Engineering Manager at Miaplaza leading a team of four engineers building and operating the platform infrastructure, splitting time roughly 50/50 between people management and hands-on development. The role reports to the head of engineering and focuses on modernizing the stack toward GCP and Kubernetes.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA
- Pay
- EUR 82,000 – 140,000 / year
What you'll do
- Work with your team to design, build, and operate the infrastructure the rest of engineering depends on: clusters, pipelines, databases, edge, and observability
- Work with the other Engineering Managers and product development leadership to scope and prioritize platform work, treating other engineering teams as customers
- Set the quality bar for your team and lead by example
- Manage, lead, and mentor your team while working side by side with them in code quality, clean infrastructure-as-code, soft skills, best practices
- Lead team trainings, set SMART goals, hold performance reviews, and provide individual feedback recurrently to each developer
- Onboard within the team as a senior engineer for 2 months, start onboarding as a manager during month two, and take over the team roughly at 10 weeks
- Spend approximately 50% of time hands-on development even after onboarding
- Grow your engineers and those around you using pedagogical principles
- Have full oversight into direct reports' work
- Give meaningful, specific reinforcement and constructive feedback whenever you notice something
What we're looking for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 2+ years of experience being a mentor/leader, of which 1+ years leading a team, formally or as a tech lead
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, of which 3+ years running production workloads on Kubernetes (GKE preferred)
- 3+ years of experience with a major cloud provider and Infrastructure as Code; senior-level knowledge of GCP IAM, networking, KMS, GKE, CloudSQL and Secret Manager
- 3+ years of experience operating at a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer level
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and operations
- Experience with GitOps (FluxCD or ArgoCD)
- Experience working directly with engineering teams and other managers as your customers on scoping and prioritization
- Experience leading incident response, including running postmortems
Nice to have
- Experience leading a team through a significant architectural migration
- Experience with consumer platforms at scale
- Experience building in regulated environments
- Experience operating self-hosted observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, OpenTelemetry)
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling
- Experience supporting .NET/C# application deployments
- Experience with database operations (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with Istio or other service meshes
Your team
Infrastructure team
Team of four engineers building and operating the infrastructure the rest of engineering depends on
How to get hired
- 1Application and CV Review
- 2Initial Technical Screen (20 minutes) - administrative questions and 7 short technical questions related to the role
- 3Behavioral Interview (1 hour) - with a member of the HR team
- 41st Technical Interview (1 hour) - with a member of the Infrastructure team
- 5Scenario-based Technical Interview (1 hour) - with a member of the Infrastructure team and the team's engineering manager
- 6Leadership Interview (1 hour) - with the head of engineering and executive leadership
- 7Reference check - 3 references, at least one being a former or current manager and any former or current direct reports
- 8Offer & background check
Apply
About Miaplaza
A growing, self-funded EdTech company that develops personalized learning experiences for students, helping them grow in a supportive and interactive environment.
Mission
Dedicated to making education engaging and accessible through innovative online learning platforms.
Key facts
- EdTech
- US-based education company
- 100% remote company
- Self-funded
- Equal opportunity employer
What they value
- Pedagogical principles
- Feedback is the norm
- Access to quality education
- Continuous optimization of ourselves, our teams, our processes, and our company