Lead a high-performing engineering team focused on delivering critical components for distributed systems. This role involves translating strategic goals into actionable 1-2 quarter execution plans. You will establish and enforce best practices in coding, testing, and scalability, while providing hands-on technical guidance for performance optimization and load testing. Emphasis is placed on building resilient, fault-tolerant systems with in-service upgrade capabilities, utilizing patterns like redundancy, replication, and failover. Ensuring robust observability through comprehensive testing, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry is key, alongside operational readiness via documented procedures.

The position requires managing the delivery of scoped features, ensuring correctness through various testing methods, and directing the implementation of data replication and synchronization strategies. You will also spearhead incident response, root-cause analysis, and champion no-customer-downtime practices. Driving the adoption of automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for troubleshooting and overseeing security implementations, including encryption and access controls, are vital components of this role.

- Oversee the development of distributed system components, including distributed state management tools and large-scale data processing optimization. - Guide the team in implementing scalability requirements and leveraging data plane platforms for efficient data handling. - Ensure accurate execution of performance and load testing, and coach on building fault-tolerant systems with redundancy, replication, and failover. - Lead the design of components to manage service disruptions and network unreliability using techniques like retries and circuit breakers. - Drive the implementation of testing, alarming, runbooks, and operational procedures for system reliability and recovery. - Manage the implementation of functional requirements, testing scenarios (e.g., fault-injection), and data replication for system correctness and availability. - Lead team efforts in diagnosing and resolving system component issues, ensuring no customer downtime during resolution. - Implement automation scripts and IaC for troubleshooting and manage operational support rotations. - Oversee security measures, encryption, access controls, and remediation plans to ensure cloud infrastructure compliance. - Lead change management for safe patching, updates, and rollbacks. - Create and own team execution plans, monitor timelines, and delegate work effectively. - Foster strong collaborations across teams and guide team members in building relationships with stakeholders. - Lead problem-solving for operational and technical issues, analyzing data from multiple sources. - Encourage continuous learning and knowledge sharing within the team. - Drive continuous improvement in processes and workflows. - Coach team members on performance management, goal setting, and development opportunities. - Contribute to talent acquisition by leading interviews and assessing talent.

We are seeking an experienced engineering manager to lead a team focused on core infrastructure and distributed systems. This role requires a deep understanding of building scalable, fault-tolerant, and reliable systems. You will be responsible for setting technical direction, guiding architectural decisions, and ensuring the operational excellence of critical components.

Key areas of focus include system design for scalability and reliability, implementing robust testing and observability, and managing incident response. Strong leadership and people management skills are essential for coaching and developing team members, fostering a collaborative environment, and driving continuous improvement. Experience with automation, Infrastructure as Code, and security best practices in cloud environments is highly valued.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on the core infrastructure that powers our products and services. The role is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.