Lead engineering team to consolidate core engineering and maintenance for Kong's hybrid products. Collaborate with key customers and shape technical culture with a focus on delivery.
Responsibilities
You will be the leader of a team that consolidates core engineering and maintenance for the Kong on-premise and hybrid products.
This team is the technical interface with key customers.
You need strong technical leadership and a solid background.
You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
Requirements
5+ years of managing maintenance or support teams and obsessing over customer experience.
Experience doing reviews, hiring, comp.
Experience managing remote teams and distributed workforce.
Demonstrated leadership of Engineering teams.
On-premise, cloud, and hybrid product background.
Proven strong technical skills sets.
Business fluent English language skills both written and verbal.
Benefits
Hire, mentor, and maintain healthy Engineering teams who value collaboration and innovation.
Manage shift scheduling, measuring key performance indicators (KPIs), and training, assure high-quality work and SLA.
Experience managing customer-facing, engineering support roles and has a breadth of experience across infrastructure, internal tooling, platforms, and on-premise products.
Solid technical expertise for Linux systems troubleshooting, and profiling, experience with debugging tools such as gdb, systemtap, tcpdump, crash, or other.
Own the customer escalation system technically, including collaboration with other departments, stakeholders (Sales, Customer Experience, Sales Engineering etc.) and where necessary customers.
Leadership experience displaying ability to organize and prioritize complex problem resolution and bug fixes, debugging distributed services.
Organize and manage your teams to fit constructively into the org as a whole and help the company succeed.
Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.
Give constructive feedback to Engineers, conduct 1:1s, address inter-personal issues, and conduct reviews.
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