Senior Engineering Manager, Synthetics

AECOM; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a growth-minded engineering manager to lead their Synthetics team, enhancing digital observability for leading enterprises. The role involves team leadership, product development using Ruby on Rails, and driving innovative solutions. Ideal candidates should possess extensive experience in engineering and cloud environments, along with strong interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience leading engineering teams.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Deep knowledge of Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers delivering synthetics capabilities.
• Define and deliver roadmap features with product managers and UX designers.
• Drive technical excellence and ensure high code quality standards.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Collaboration

Service-oriented architecture

Ruby on Rails

Technical excellence

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

WebPageTest

Lighthouse

PageSpeed Insights

Job description

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

**Role Summary**

We are looking for a growth-minded engineering manager to lead our Synthetics team. You will be empowered and challenged to own development, deployment and optimization of a highly differentiated product that customers love for the ability to quickly jumpstart their observability journey. This team owns building and scaling synthetic monitoring solutions that simulate user interactions and proactively detect performance issues across applications. You’ll lead a high powered group of engineers in delivering impactful features that help our customers ensure uptime and performance.

**Meet the Products and Technology Team**

Want to build security and observability products people love AND work with people as smart (and humble) as you are? Our products and technology team delivers digital resilience at enterprise scale with a self-service Splunk portfolio that offers unified security analytics, full stack observability and real-time visibility of streaming data. Learn more about the team, meet our leaders, and hear from Splunk technologists and engineers at splunk.com/careers/products-and-technology .

**What you'll get to do**

+ Lead and develop a team of highly talented and motivated engineers to deliver world class synthetics capabilities

+ Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and other engineering teams to define and deliver roadmap features.

+ Own the delivery of scalable, reliable, and secure services that integrate with Splunk’s Observability platform.

+ Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

+ Drive technical excellence, ensuring high standards for code quality, testing, and performance.

+ Participate in architectural decisions and help evolve the technical direction of the Synthetics product.

+ Recruit, onboard, and develop top engineering talent.

**Must-have Qualifications**

+ 4+ years experience building and leading engineering teams.

+ An experienced, hands-on leader who strives to make other people successful

+ Deep experience with **Ruby on Rails** or other similar modern web frameworks

+ Strong understanding of service-oriented architectures, principles and patterns

+ Proven track record of delivering production-grade software in multi-cloud environments at scale (AWS, GCP and Azure).

+ Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

+ Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related field.

**Nice-to-have Qualifications**

We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you.

+ Experience with observability, monitoring or performance testing tools, in particular synthetic or end user monitoring applications

+ Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and DevOps practices.

+ Familiarity with web page optimization techniques and tools such as WebPageTest, Lighthouse or PageSpeed Insights

**Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer**

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.