Engineering Manager, Remote — Lead Production Systems

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 206,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote first

Equity

Annual company retreat?

Professional development $1500 USD

Home office stipend $500

Job summary

Tailscale seeks a talented and motivated full-time Software Engineering Manager to join our growing team. You will provide guidance, mentorship, and career development for a team of software engineers, while aligning with Product and Design to deliver features across Pods.

As a remote-first company, you’ll recruit, shape engineering culture, and grow technical leadership, while overseeing a critical production service and driving planning from immediate needs to long-term strategy.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership with experience managing engineering teams and performance evaluations.
• Experience building and operating production services with high availability and performance goals.
• Expertise managing on-call rotations and incident response.
• Ability to independently evaluate complex technical tradeoffs in design discussions.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance, mentorship, and career development for a team of software engineers.
• Contribute toward the success of our Product organization across Engineering, Product Management, and Design; operate in pods of 2-4 engineers plus a PM and Designer.
• Provide technical direction in projects and grow the engineering leadership capabilities of reports.
• Assist in growing the organization through interviewing, recruiting, and shaping engineering culture.
• Move the product forward in a fully remote, async environment.
• Lead a team responsible for managing a critical production service, including monitoring and on-call responsibilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to complete complex projects spanning multiple domains.
• Drive planning across immediate needs to long-term strategic direction.

Skills

Leadership

Production services

On-call rotations

Design tradeoffs

Go

Self-motivated

Startup adaptability

Job description

Tailscale seeks a talented and motivated full-time Software Engineering Manager to join our growing team. You will provide guidance, mentorship, and career development for a team of software engineers, while aligning with Product and Design to deliver features across Pods.

As a remote-first company, you’ll recruit, shape engineering culture, and grow technical leadership, while overseeing a critical production service and driving planning from immediate needs to long-term strategy.