Engineering Manager, Voice Infrastructure

Weave; Lehi (UT); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Weave is seeking an Engineering Manager for the SIP Engineering team. Lead the Voice Platform, mentor engineers, and scale our cloud-based VoIP services. This dual role blends people leadership with hands-on coding and architecture, including Kamailio, RTPengine, FreeSWITCH, and Homer.

You will set technical vision, manage backlogs, partner with Product, SRE, and Support, and hire top talent to maintain high availability and superior call quality across a distributed platform.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in software/telecom engineering.
• Staff-level expertise in VoIP/SIP with Kamailio, FreeSWITCH, RTPengine, Homer.
• Hands-on Go programming and scripting in Python/Bash/LUA.
• Strong TCP/IP networking and security fundamentals.
• Experience with cloud deployments and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Provide people leadership, mentorship, and career growth for the Voice Platform team.
• Contribute to technical work: design, code review, and Golang microservices.
• Align engineering priorities with the product roadmap and manage backlog.
• Set performance expectations and conduct regular 1-on-1s and reviews.
• Own architecture for scaling distributed VoIP platform in the cloud.
• Collaborate with SRE, Product, and Support to ensure availability and call quality.

Skills

People leadership

VoIP engineering

Golang

Python

Bash

LUA

TCP/IP networking

SIP/RTP infrastructure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Communication

Tools

Kamailio

FreeSWITCH

RTPengine

Homer

Job description

Weave is looking for an Engineering Manager (SIP Engineering) to lead, mentor, and scale our Voice Platform team while remaining hands‑on with complex cloud‑based telecom architecture. At Weave, we embrace a \"working manager\" philosophy, where you will balance people leadership, team success, and individual technical contributions including design, writing, and reviewing code. In this dual role, you will ensure our distributed voice platform is robust, scalable, and observable using core components like Kamailio, RTPengine, FreeSWITCH, and Homer/HEPIC, while driving execution, setting technical vision, and coaching engineers to achieve their career growth.

• This position can be remote, in office, or hybrid

• Reports to: Director of Engineering

What You Will Own

The duties and responsibilities of the role.

• Provide people leadership, mentorship, and career growth management for engineers on the Voice Platform team.

• Actively contribute to individual technical work, including designing, writing, and reviewing code for Golang microservices and SIP/RTP infrastructure.

• Partner closely with Product Leadership to align engineering priorities with the product roadmap and actively manage the team backlog.

• Set clear performance expectations, hold team members accountable, and conduct regular 1-on-1s and quarterly check-ins.

• Provide architectural vision and technical ownership for scaling our distributed cloud‑based VoIP platform.

• Proactively eliminate knowledge silos and identify roadblocks to ensure steady execution and progression for the team.

• Hire and retain top engineering talent through networking, sourcing, and leading structured interview cycles.

• Collaborate with internal Weave customers and cross‑functional teams (SRE, Product, Support) to support high platform availability and call quality.

• Optimize and troubleshoot FreeSWITCH and Kamailio configurations for performance, resiliency, and observability using HEP/Homer.

• Foster a culture of high engineering hygiene, trust, transparency, and alignment with Weave Core Values.
  

What You Will Need to Accomplish the Job

• Proven experience in people leadership or technical team leadership within a software/telecom engineering organization.

• Staff-level technical expertise in VoIP and SIP engineering, including deep familiarity with Kamailio, FreeSWITCH, RTPengine, and Homer.

• Hands‑on programming capability in Go (Golang) alongside scripting tools (Python, Bash, LUA).

• Deep understanding of TCP/IP networking, firewalls, and protocols (SIP, RTP, RTCP, TLS, ICE, STUN, TURN, WebRTC).

• Demonstrated ability to balance individual technical contributions with team leadership and administrative responsibilities.

• Experience operating production services in cloud environments (GCP preferred) and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with DevOps infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

• Strong conflict resolution, communication, and management‑up capabilities.

• Experience collaborating with HR partners to handle performance development and coaching.

• Commitment to driving incident response, postmortems, and durable fixes.

What Will Make Us Love You

• 7+ years of experience designing, building, and leading large‑scale distributed VoIP networks.

• Prior official experience as an Engineering Manager in a dual technical/leadership capacity.

• Certifications in Kamailio or OpenSIPS.

• Proven track record of building trust, maintaining high morale, and promoting continuous career progression for direct reports.

Employment with Weave is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, conducted in accordance with applicable laws.

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Weave is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals are valued and supported. We welcome anyone who is hungry to learn, problem‑solve and progress regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.