Senior Engineering Manager, Data Service

Hydrolix; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Hydrolix is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Data Services Team, owning the data path from ingress to aggregation. You will interface between the team and the wider company, guiding technical decisions and ensuring commitments are met.

Your role includes coordinating with product and leadership to keep efforts focused on high-value work, and helping team members find fulfillment in their roles.

Qualifications

• Experience managing teams of software engineers.
• Familiarity with large scale relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Own execution for your team and ensure commitments.
• Facilitate technical decision making within and across teams.
• Coordinate efforts with engineers in high-throughput environments.
• Help your team find fulfillment at work and stay focused on valuable work.
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to deliver customer solutions.

Skills

Team management

Large-scale relational DBs

Job description

LOCATION

Hydrolix | USCAN, Remote

Job Description

At Hydrolix, we are revolutionizing the world of data management and analytics with an innovative cloud data platform purpose-built for petabyte-scale datasets. Hydrolix enables organizations to slash their data costs while simultaneously increasing their data retention.

Hydrolix is looking for a senior engineering manager to lead our Data Services Team. This team owns the data path: ingress, data lifecycle, compaction, and aggregation. The team holds deep working knowledge of nearly every component in the platform and is often relied upon to solve technical mysteries that leave others stumped. You are the interface between that team and the rest of the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Own execution for your team
  • Delegation is your super-power, but at the end of the day you are accountable for your team’s ability to make and keep commitments
• Facilitate technical decision making within and across teams
  • We’ve got a lot of talented engineers. Your role is not to tell them how to do their jobs, but to help them collaborate and communicate so that their technical visions can become reality
• Coordinate the efforts of some of our most valuable engineers
  • This is a high throughput team.
  • Your mission (in partnership with Product Management) is to keep them focused on the most valuable efforts
• Help your team find fulfillment at work
  • We do our best work when we are most fulfilled
  • Understand what your team members want out of work life and help them find it
• Play an active role in broader engineering leadership
  • Building great software is a team effort
  • You’ll work closely with your fellow managers, directors, and architects to deliver the best solutions for our customers and our business

Qualifications and Skills

• Experience managing teams of software engineers
• Familiarity with large scale relational databases

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience as a Principal+ level engineer
• Experience with agentic software development
• Experience with distributed database internals

We look forward to seeing how you can make an impact at Hydrolix.

Hydrolix provides equal employment opportunities without regard to an applicant’s race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Hydrolix. Please inform us if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.