Senior Engineering Manager (OEM)
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30+ days ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Were a global team of over 400 people working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers builders and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases search streaming and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.
The Role:
As part of delivering world-class managed services Aiven enables cloud providers - our OEM partners - to create their own DBaaS offerings. We are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Senior Engineering Manager to lead the execution of our OEM-focused product development. You will lead a team of engineers who are responsible for managing MySQL and PostgreSQL services for our partners. We are looking for a person who can effectively manage technical discussions people development and customer interactions. Reporting to the Director of OEM Engineering & Strategy this position acts as the central connection between our engineering teams and our OEM partners.
This role offers a unique opportunity to combine technical leadership with operational excellence and direct customer interaction enabling you to directly impact the growth of our platform within the partnership landscape. You will not only streamline delivery processes and foster a high-performing engineering team but also act as a key point of contact for our OEM partners understanding their requirements addressing their concerns and ensuring successful deliveries.
What Youll Do:
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead the team of engineers responsible for managing services for our partners currently focused on MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Capacity planning & Delivery: Effectively allocate engineering resources across projects and initiatives ensuring optimal utilization and alignment with our partners priorities. Youll be accountable for the teams delivery in all aspects including quality security and reliability.
- Team Facilitation: Lead team meetings such as planning sessions and retrospectives to continuously improve workflows and delivery.
- Culture Building: Foster a psychologically safe high-trust environment where curiosity and healthy debate are encouraged.
- Talent acquisition: Actively seek and recruit high-potential engineering talent to strengthen the teams capabilities and drive innovation.
- Delivery process optimization:Continuously analyze and improve delivery processes identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency.
- Risk management & mitigation: Proactively identify and assess potential risks developing mitigation strategies to minimize disruptions and ensure on-time deliveries.
Customer management & communication
- Requirements gathering & communication: Collaborate with OEM partners to gather detailed requirements ensuring clear communication and alignment between partner expectations and engineering deliverables.
- Partner feedback & advocacy: Proactively solicit and analyze customer feedback acting as an advocate for OEM needs within the engineering organization.
- Regular status updates & reporting: Provide regular status updates to OEMs including project progress milestones and potential risks ensuring transparency and proactive issue resolution.
What Were Looking For:
Leadership skills:
- People Leadership: A proven track record of leading diverse and distributed teams to successfully deliver software products.
- Product Thinking: A strong product sense that enables you to drive the direction of the products towards meeting customer needs (mostly for MySQL)
- Communication: Excellent communication skills in English with the ability to effectively engage directly with customers.
- Adaptability: The ability to bring order and clarity to a dynamic ambiguous environment a trait essential in a fast-growing tech company.
- Team Building: Experience in recruiting engineering talent and a deep understanding of what it takes to build and retain high-performing teams.
- Agile Expertise: Experience with agile software development methodologies.
Technical skills:
- Cloud infrastructure Concepts: Good knowledge of VM-based cloud infrastructure fundamentals.
- Release & Quality: Deep understanding of release management and testing best practices to own the delivery pipeline.
- Problem-Solving: A genuine interest in solving complex technical challenges with customer-focused solutions.
- Nice to have Distributed Systems: Experience in building and designing distributed systems at scale in a cloud environment.
- Nice to have MySQL concepts: Good understanding of how to manage MySQL or similar databases
Amazing! Whats next:
If you think Aiven is the place for you and that our Values align with yours send us your resume and well get in touch!
Global Benefits:
Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow personally and professionally:
- Participate in Aivens equity plan.
- Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
- Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
- Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
- Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
- Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave as well as Personal Time)
- Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast.
How to Recognize and Avoid Employment Scams:
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Equal Opportunities:
Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age gender identity national or ethnic origin religion sexual orientation physical and mental ability marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff transfer leaves of absence compensation training and any other terms and conditions related to employment.
At Aiven we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We make all reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or who otherwise need support to thrive in the workplace. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. There is an option to request a discussion in the application process but if you have any questions before applying please write to us at .
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About Company
Aiven simplifies cloud data infrastructure management by deploying open-source technologies across multiple clouds, enabling fast and confident creation of next-generation applications.
