đź’Ľ Scaleway - Engineering Manager - Managed Databases
About Scaleway 🌍
- Founded in 1999, Scaleway is the cloud subsidiary of Iliad Group, a leading European telecom operator.
- Mission: Foster a more responsible digital industry by helping developers and businesses build, deploy, and scale applications on any infrastructure.
- HQ in Paris and Lille, France.
- 25,000+ customers choose Scaleway for multi-AZ redundancy, seamless UX, carbon-neutral datacenters, and native multi-cloud management tools.
- Products include fully managed solutions for bare metal, containerization, and serverless architectures, offering a responsible choice in cloud computing.
- Dynamic team of 600+ diverse professionals in a stimulating international environment that values technical excellence, creativity, and collaboration.
About the Job 🛠️
- Managed Databases team: responsible for Relational DB (PostgreSQL, MySQL) & Redis offerings, pillars of Scaleway's cloud ecosystem, enabling customers to securely store and access data without infrastructure worries.
- Engineering Manager role: equally balanced between managerial and technical responsibilities.
- Agile methodologies, often Scrum, are used by all teams, with collaborative projects monitored via these platforms.
Managerial Responsibilities 👨‍💼
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Team Care:
- Administrative tasks: planning, vacation requests, etc.
- Focus on improving team members' skills and knowledge by understanding their strengths, limitations, and goals.
- Find the most efficient way of working as a team.
- Monitor and optimize team velocity and delivery capacity with the Product Manager.
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Technical Leadership:
- Collaborate with other teams and managers to carry out technical tasks, ensuring your team has what it needs for its products.
- Deep understanding of database servers' internals.
- Team's main programming languages: Python & Golang.
- Code, handle customer escalations from support, and manage product infrastructure (software upgrades & reliability).
- Avoid over-engineering and find pragmatic solutions to technical problems.
- Facilitate the team by providing everything they need to focus on their tasks, in sync with other company managers.
Preferred Qualifications đź“š
- Experience in Python and/or Golang development, REST and gRPC APIs.
- Database clustering and management, troubleshooting, system and database tuning, high availability mechanisms.
- Understanding of Linux System Administration and container technology.
- Knowledge of cloud ecosystems.
- DevOps mindset.
- Open-minded and adaptable.
- Strong empathy.
- Result-oriented attitude.
- Clear communication.
- Good command of English.
Responsibilities ⚙️
- Embody engineering activities within the company and your team.
- Hire, manage, support, and develop a team (career path, salary and compensation, personal knowledge and skills improvement).
- Build innovative features for products using the latest technologies with your team.
- Coordinate the team, monitor project progress, and organize work using Agile methodologies.
- Balance team workload between technical debt management, rollouts, and new projects.
- Collaborate with Product Managers & Marketing teams to ensure the team does the "right" things (the "why," then the "what," and finally the "how").
- Communicate up and down the chain to align the team with company objectives and ensure their voice is heard.
- Monitor and optimize team velocity and its capacity to deliver quality products and services on time.
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineering teams.
- Stay grounded by coding as a "doer" with your team.
- Work on transversal initiatives within Scaleway's Engineering Manager Guild.
Our Technical Stack đź’»
- Relational Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB
- Redis
- Python / GoLang
- DCS Systems: consul, etcd
- Linux, Container Technologies
- Ansible
- Gitlab, CI-CD
- Micro-Services Architectures
Localization đź“Ť
- Based in Paris or Lille, France.
Apply Now! 🚀
- Don't hesitate to apply even if you don't meet all the requirements.
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