Senior Engineering Manager — Network Connectivity

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks an Engineering Manager for the Egress team, overseeing a distributed group developing connectivity for a broad product portfolio. You will guide architecture, mentor engineers, and align roadmaps with product goals.

You will own production reliability, manage on-call processes, and partner cross-functionally to deliver scalable network software across the company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as an Engineering Manager for software/systems teams.
• Track record in hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers.
• Strong planning and execution to meet commitments.
• Experience with Layer 3/4 networking concepts.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging distributed systems.
• Ability to lead on-call rotations and customer incident support.

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and coach a distributed software team.
• Collaborate with product managers and leaders to align roadmaps.
• Assess tradeoffs across the networked system and influence scope.
• Drive design decisions and empower engineers to own delivery.
• Oversee on-call rotations and incident response for production services.
• Improve platform reliability and automation across the stack.

Skills

Engineering management

Hiring & onboarding

Distributed systems

Networking

On-call rotations

AI tools integration

Communication

Job description

About Us

At the company, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. the company protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by the company all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. the company was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At the company, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations:About the role

The Egress team was formed to own a very important aspect of the company's Connectivity Cloud: egress connectivity for our vast portfolio of products. The team build and operate cutting edge network software infrastructure used by a growing number of the company products to connect to any destination from the company's network. Among the products powered by this technology is Dedicated Egress IP Connectivity, WARP, the company One/Zero Trust, and the company's egress proxy for the iCloud Private Relay product.

Responsibilities

As an Engineering Manager on the Egress team you will hire, mentor, and coach a distributed team of Software Engineers. You will play a key role in developing the team and shaping its culture and technical vision. This includes:

• Working closely with Product Managers and other Engineering leaders to communicate the vision, prioritize the team's roadmap, and achieve cross-functional objectives.

• Understanding the technical implications of work across a distributed software network infrastructure to influence scope, work across teams, and help unblock projects: from data planes responsible for delivery of critical customer traffic to distributed control-plane services.

• Applying technical experience to evaluate tradeoffs, contribute to design decisions, and help drive resolution to customer-facing issues, while creating space for engineers to lead design, implementation, and delivery.

• Taking responsibility for the team's production services by organizing on-call rotations, handling customer escalations, and overseeing incident response and follow-up.

• Driving reliability and automation improvements across the platform

• Using tools and processes to convey project status and resolve blockages.

You are a growth-oriented individual who enjoys being outside of your comfort zone. You are comfortable in a fast-paced but sensible work environment. You value curiosity and empathy and lead with these values.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• 5+ years experience as an Engineering Manager for a team of Software and Systems Engineers.

• Demonstrate a track record of managing a team including hiring, onboarding, and professional development. You inspire your team to reach higher. You're as good at explaining "why" as you are "how".

• Excel at planning and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.

• Experience/interest in Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking

• Experience/interest in network performance monitoring and tuning.

• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging distributed systems.

• Experience participating in and/or managing an on-call rotation for production services with direct customer impact.

• Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into your workflow.

• Clarity in written and verbal communication.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary of €89,000-122,000.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in the company’s equity plan.

What Makes the company Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo

Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by the company’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project

Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1

We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service the company has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the the company Offices or the company Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Pleas