Senior Engineering Manager, Observability

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings

Equity participation

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Engineering Manager for our Developer Observability Platform. You will lead a high-velocity, customer-obsessed team focused on making telemetry discoverable and actionable across a distributed, global environment.

The role requires deep observability experience, hands-on leadership, and the ability to align technical decisions with product goals. You will interface with major customers and drive essential platform improvements in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of relevant industry experience, including 4+ years leading software engineering teams.
• Proven track record shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems and data-driven apps.
• Deep technical depth to guide architecture and decisions.
• Strong taste for developer tools and observability products.

Responsibilities

• Deliver excellent customer outcomes; be accountable for building, planning, and delivery.
• Set the technical and product vision with PMs and Engineers.
• Build and operate an observability platform for a rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.
• Own platform operations: SLOs, incident response, escalations, and tech debt.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow engineers; raise the team’s performance bar.
• Foster a culture of fast iteration, high ownership, and accountability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with platform and product teams to surface meaningful data.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Observability

Cloud infrastructure

Hiring & coaching

Hands-on leadership

Architectural guidance

Observability tools

Tools

ClickHouse

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Kibana

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

Austin, TX | New York, NY | Lisbon, Portugal | London, UK

About the Role

As the Engineering Manager for our Developer Observability Platform you will manage a high-velocity customer-obsessed team. Your mission will be to empower customers by making their telemetry discoverable and actionable in one place.

The team is international and distributed, they move fast and are deeply attuned to customer feedback. They bring a deep range of observability experience from major companies and fast-moving startups. This is a deeply cross-functional role that will need to understand the nuances of monitoring some of our most complex and high volume primitives such as Workers, Workers for Platforms, Agents, and Durable Objects. This is a high-visibility role that will be directly interfacing with some of our biggest customers.

Responsibilities

Deliver excellent customer outcomes above all else. Whatever is required - building, planning, deciding, designing, communicating - you are accountable and get it done.

• Set the technical and product vision along with your PM and Engineers. Build the right thing at the right time.

Building an observability platform for the current AI driven ecosystem. Agents empower new types of platforms capabilities even as they require new types of observability.

Own the operational aspects of your platform such as SLOs, incident response, customer escalations, and technical debt. Reliability is its own feature.

Recruit, mentor, and grow engineers. We have a high bar and expect you to raise it.

Cultivate a team culture that values fast iteration, high agency, and ownership.

Work cross-functionally with a range of platform and product teams to instrument and surface meaningful data in actionable ways.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge & Experience

A minimum of 8 years of relevant industry experience, including at least 4 years managing software engineering teams.

Proven track record leading teams that have shipped and operated complex, large-scale systems and data-driven applications. Preferably in observability, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, edge/proxy systems, or high-scale APIs.

Significant technical depth, with the ability to guide architectural discussions, make credible technical decisions, review designs, and unblock your team.

Strong developer tools taste. You have used and built enough observability products to know what makes them delightful or painful.

Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, and develop senior engineers, and to build high-performing, inclusive teams that ship. You care about teams and team culture.

A hands-on approach to leadership: you consider yourself a builder, stay close to the code, know the numbers, know the customer, and know what to build next.

Bonus Points

Working on hosted customer-facing observability products

Instrumenting observability in global-scale, production environments

Implementing observability (OTLP, OLAP databases such as Clickhouse, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, etc)

Experience building with the company’s Developer Platform and have opinions on where we could improve, especially with respect to observability.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For NY-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $220,000 - $303,000

• 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.

Benefits

the company offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Vision Insurance

• Flexible Spending Accounts

• Commuter Spending Accounts

• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits

• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program

• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance

• Life & Accident Insurance

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave

• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

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

In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government electio