About the role

Engineering Manager at Atreides driving data ingestion and platform engineering for geospatial data solutions. Leading a team to optimize systems, ensuring quality and scalability in cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and coach data and platform engineers, providing technical guidance and career development.
Maintain a steady, composed approach under pressure, guiding teams through ambiguity and technical complexity while staying focused on mission-critical outcomes.
Build data processing systems to deliver actionable insights to end-users.
Optimize data flows and streaming analytics to ensure fast, low-latency decision-making capabilities.
Work with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) to deploy and scale big data systems.
Utilize containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-native services to ensure flexible and scalable platform infrastructure.
Partner with Infrastructure and Finance to manage cloud costs across AWS/Azure/GCP, balancing performance, scalability, and spend.
Implement and govern cost monitoring, budget controls, and rightsizing strategies for compute, storage, and networking.
Define, track, and socialize engineering KPIs (e.g., reliability, throughput, defect rates, incident metrics) to drive transparency and continuous improvement.

Proven experience managing remote teams, building career ladders, setting and tracking measurable goals, and creating strong engineering culture across multiple teams.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to drive clarity on complex technical topics and have direct conversations when needed.
Willingness to support occasional travel and after-hours work when critical technical issues arise.
Experience building and running platform capabilities used by multiple teams (e.g., ingestion frameworks, SDKs, workflow/orchestration, data contracts, schemas, observability, self-serve tooling).
Strong foundation in distributed systems and production operations: scalability, backpressure, idempotency, retries, ordering, data consistency, and failure modes.
7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing and developing engineers.

Competitive salary
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans
Flexible hybrid work environment
Additional benefits like flexible hours, work travel opportunities, competitive vacation time and parental leave