Engineering Manager - Gateway - EMEA

Kong Inc; Santiago de Compostela; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading technology company is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Kong Gateway team in Europe. The role involves managing engineers, improving processes, and driving innovation in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should possess solid technical expertise and a demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams effectively.

Formación

• 4+ years of Engineering management experience.
• Experience managing remote teams.
• Demonstrated leadership of Engineering teams, preferably working on Rust codebases.

Responsabilidades

• Hire, mentor, and maintain healthy Engineering teams who value collaboration.
• Manage shift scheduling, measuring KPIs, and training.
• Provide constructive feedback and conduct performance reviews.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Communication

Problem Resolution

Collaboration

Technical Expertise

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Herramientas

Linux systems

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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