Engineering Manager - Gateway - EMEA

Kong Inc; Oviedo; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Kong Inc is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Kong Gateway engineering team in Europe. This position involves managing team performance, mentoring engineers, and driving innovation in engineering principles. The ideal candidate will possess significant leadership experience, particularly in remote team management and engineering, with a proven background in infrastructure products.

Formación

• 4+ years of Engineering management experience.
• Experience managing remote teams.
• Demonstrated leadership in Engineering, preferably with Rust.

Responsabilidades

• Manage the Kong Gateway engineering team in Europe.
• Hire, mentor, and maintain healthy Engineering teams.
• Organize and manage expectations with other teams and stakeholders.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Team Management

Linux Systems Troubleshooting

Technical Expertise

Problem Resolution

Herramientas

gdb

systemtap

tcpdump

Descripción del empleo

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

About the role :

You will manage the Kong Gateway engineering team based in Europe. Members of the team are responsible for engineering tasks in different areas of Kong Gateway, the foundational technology for our product offerings, such as router, balancer, plugins development kit (PDK), management API, observability metrics, distributed clustering infrastructure.

What you'll be doing

• Hire, mentor, and maintain healthy Engineering teams who value collaboration and innovation.
• Manage shift scheduling, measuring key performance indicators (KPIs), and training, assure high-quality work and SLA.
• Solid technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling, experience with debugging tools such as gdb, systemtap, tcpdump, crash, or other.
• Leadership experience displaying the ability to organize and prioritize complex problem resolution and bug fixes, debugging distributed services.
• Organize and manage your teams to fit constructively into the org as a whole and help the company succeed.
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.
• Give constructive feedback to Engineers, conduct 1 : 1’s, address interpersonal issues, and conduct reviews.
• Suggest Engineering guidelines, principles, and processes to improve the Engineering org.
• Any additional tasks required by the manager.

What you'll bring

• 4+ years of Engineering management experience.
• Experience managing remote teams.
• Demonstrated leadership of Engineering teams, preferably working on Rust codebases.
• Proven customer relationship skill sets (internal and external customers).On-premise, cloud, and hybrid product background.
• Experience working on an infrastructure product line.

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