Engineering Manager, High-Throughput Search Systems

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Distribusion is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Search team and shape the product's technical direction. You will steer a senior engineering group, remain hands-on when needed, and drive the architecture for a scalable, low-latency API platform used by major retailers worldwide.

You will own domain health, optimize costs, and ensure performance goals as the platform grows. This role combines leadership with deep technical execution in a dynamic, remote-friendly environment.

Qualifications

• Experienced people leader who has managed senior engineering teams.
• Hands-on engineer who can dive into architecture and code when needed.
• Strong track record building and scaling high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach an experienced engineering team, ensuring performance and growth.
• Own domain health and ensure systems are robust, scalable, and cost-efficient.
• Drive architecture decisions to support 10x growth while controlling infrastructure costs.
• Stay hands-on with design, code, and system architecture in a complex space.

Skills

People leadership

Hands-on engineering

Backend system design

Performance optimization

Tools

Rust

Go

Job description

Distribusion is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Search team and shape the product's technical direction. You will steer a senior engineering group, remain hands-on when needed, and drive the architecture for a scalable, low-latency API platform used by major retailers worldwide.

You will own domain health, optimize costs, and ensure performance goals as the platform grows. This role combines leadership with deep technical execution in a dynamic, remote-friendly environment.