Engineering Manager

Scaleway - Engineering Manager 👨‍💻

About Scaleway

Founded in 1999, Scaleway is the cloud subsidiary of Iliad Group, a leading European telecommunications company. Our mission is to foster a more responsible digital industry by helping developers and businesses build, deploy, and scale applications on any infrastructure.

With offices in Paris and Lille, we continuously improve our cloud ecosystem, which we are the first to use.

Our 25,000+ customers choose us for our multi-AZ redundancy, seamless user experience, carbon-neutral data centers, and native multi-cloud management tools. Our products include fully managed solutions for bare metal, containerization, and serverless architectures, offering a responsible choice in cloud computing.

Join our dynamic team of nearly 600 employees from diverse backgrounds, in a stimulating and international environment that combines technical excellence, creativity, and sharing.

About the Job

Engineering Managers are key to Scaleway. They create the conditions for engineering teams to focus on building a cloud that makes sense. We are constantly searching for engineering management talent. If you are unsure which team would fit your profile, this is where you should apply, and we will get back to you.

As an Engineering Manager, you will manage both your team of engineers and the general engineering for the team. This position is equally balanced between managerial and technical roles and skills. All teams work with Agile methods, often with Scrum. You will monitor collaborative projects via these platforms.

As a manager, you will take care of your team. You will be in charge of administrative tasks like planning, approving vacation requests, and more. An important part of the position is to improve the skills and knowledge of each team member by getting to know them well (strengths, limitations, and goals). Together, you will find the most efficient way of working as a team. You will also be responsible for monitoring and optimizing the velocity and delivery capacity of your team with the help of your Product Manager.

Your goal as an EM will be to speak to the other teams and their managers to carry out your technical tasks, for instance by requesting what your team needs for its products. You need to be aware of the internals of database servers. Your team’s main programming languages are Python & Golang. As an Engineering Manager, you will also code, handle customer escalations from our support team, and manage the infrastructure required by the product (software upgrade & reliability).

One of your key responsibilities will be to avoid over-engineering and always find a pragmatic approach when a technical problem arises. You won’t be a cloud user; you will be a cloud builder.

You will also be the facilitator of the team, providing them with everything they need to focus on their tasks by synchronizing with the other managers of the company.

Minimum Qualifications

• Embody the activities of Engineering within the company and within your team.
• Hire, manage, support, and develop a team of up to ten engineers (career path, salary and compensation, personal knowledge and skills improvement).
• Build innovative features for our products on the latest technologies with the help of your team.
• Coordinate the team, monitor the progression of ongoing projects, organize the team’s work and sprints through rituals.
• Make suggestions to balance the team's workload between technical debt management, rollouts, and new projects.
• Strong collaboration with our Product Managers & Marketing teams to help the team do the “right” things (the “why,” then the “what,” and finally the “how”).
• Be a messenger, both up & downstream, to help the team align with the company objectives and ensure the team’s voice is heard.
• Monitor and optimize team velocity and its capacity to deliver quality products and services on time.
• Ease collaboration with other Engineering teams.
• Work closely with our local Architect to deploy internal stacks within your products and guarantee that global engineering initiatives are used within your product process and stack.
• Stay grounded by coding as a “doer” with your team.
• Work on transversal initiatives within Scaleway’s Engineering Manager Guild.

Preferred Qualifications

• Open-minded and ready to adapt quickly.
• Demonstrate strong empathy.
• Result-oriented attitude.
• Clear communication.
• Assertive.
• Facilitator.
• DevOps mindset.

Technical Skills

• Agile methods.
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL.
• Cloud environment.
• Python / GoLang.
• DCS Systems (consul, etcd).
• Container Technologies.
• Ansible.
• Linux System & Network knowledge.
• Gitlab, CI-CD.
• Micro-Services architectures.
• Scripting.
• Jira, Confluence, Slack.
• Bonus: solid knowledge of cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Alicloud, or GCP).

Location

This position is based in our offices in Paris or Lille (France).

If you don't think you tick all the boxes, don't hesitate to apply anyway. Don't limit yourself to a job description - you never know!

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