Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering
On-siteSeattle, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Translate goals into a 1–2 quarter execution plan and set coding, testing, and scalability practices for distributed system components. Provide hands-on oversight of performance tuning, load testing, and fault-injection scenarios while guiding the team in building fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable components using redundancy, replication, and failover patterns. Ensure robust observability through tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry, and maintain operational readiness via reviewed runbooks and standard procedures. Lead incident response and root-cause efforts, enforce no-customer-downtime practices, and drive automation and IaC for troubleshooting. Manage team security implementation, track remediation plans, and coach adherence to change-management plans for safe patching and rollbacks.
Required Qualifications
- Experience translating goals into a 1–2 quarter execution plan
- Experience setting coding, testing, and scalability practices
- Experience providing hands-on oversight of performance tuning and load/perf testing
- Experience guiding teams in building fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable components (redundancy, replication, failover)
- Experience applying resiliency patterns (retries, circuit breakers, timeouts)
- Experience ensuring robust observability (tests, alarms, dashboards, telemetry)
- Experience ensuring operational readiness via reviewed runbooks and standard procedures
- Experience managing delivery of scoped features and correctness testing (including fault-injection/brownouts)
- Experience directing implementation of data replication/synchronization to maintain integrity and availability
- Experience leading team incident response and root-cause efforts
- Experience enforcing no-customer-downtime practices
- Experience driving use of automation/IaC for troubleshooting
- Experience overseeing team security implementation (encryption, access controls)
- Experience tracking remediation plans
- Experience verifying compliance documentation
- Experience coaching adherence to change-management plans for safe patching, updates, and rollbacks
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