Remote Real-Time Systems Engineering Manager

Jobgether; Suíça; Remoto; CHF 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Fully remote work

Equity ownership (ESOP)

Technology allowance

Health coverage for employees

Annual company off-sites

Flexible asynchronous schedule

Professional development allowance

Resumo da vaga

Jobgether, partnering with a Swiss-based organization, seeks an Engineering Manager - Realtime to lead a globally distributed real-time infrastructure team. You will guide architecture, delivery, and people leadership to deliver low-latency messaging, presence, and data synchronization.

You will shape the team's roadmap, support professional development, and ensure effective collaboration in a remote-first environment, balancing performance, reliability, and cost. Lawyers?

Qualificações

• At least 5 years of engineering experience with depth to engage credibly with engineers working on complex systems.
• At least 3 years of experience managing remote engineering teams.
• Experience leading a team responsible for building and operating a low-latency, high-connection service (WebSockets, pub/sub, messaging, presence, or streaming).
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems including clustering, rate limiting, backpressure, and capacity planning.
• Experience leading teams through production incidents affecting customer-facing services and conducting blameless reviews.
• Experience understanding developer needs for real-time APIs or SDKs and shipping them to external customers.
• Experience managing globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Strong people-management capabilities including performance management and career coaching.
• Ability to build psychological safety and constructive feedback culture.
• Coaching-oriented leadership focused on removing blockers and empowering engineers.
• Ability to create structure in ambiguous environments with autonomous decision-making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with emphasis on asynchronous collaboration.
• Collaborative, adaptable, low-ego leadership style to guide senior engineers.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the Realtime engineering team across people management, technical direction, delivery, and operational responsibilities.
• Own the team's hiring plan and act as Hiring Manager, leading first-round interviews and coordinating with Talent Acquisition.
• Drive the team roadmap and project execution using tools like Linear with clear milestones and accountability.
• Coordinate workflows and stakeholder alignment, triaging requests and maintaining efficient communication.
• Oversee service quality and operational performance, ensuring adherence to SLAs/SLOs.
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and trade-offs, and communicate them to leadership.
• Serve as Incident Commander to coordinate incident response, resolution, and post-incident reviews.
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews and translate lessons into improvements.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and psychological safety.
• Collaborate across functions to maintain scalable, reliable real-time infrastructure.

Conhecimentos

People management

Remote leadership

Distributed systems

Incident management

Low-latency real-time systems

Recruiting

Roadmap planning

Stakeholder communication

Blameless reviews

Leadership coaching

Autonomy in ambiguous environments

Technical writing

Cross-team collaboration

People development

Descrição da vaga

Jobgether, partnering with a Swiss-based organization, seeks an Engineering Manager - Realtime to lead a globally distributed real-time infrastructure team. You will guide architecture, delivery, and people leadership to deliver low-latency messaging, presence, and data synchronization.

You will shape the team's roadmap, support professional development, and ensure effective collaboration in a remote-first environment, balancing performance, reliability, and cost. Lawyers?