Engineering Manager - Observability

• Manage a growing team of engineers focused on building quality platforms
• Participate in architecting large-scale distributed tracing and metrics platforms for CrowdStrike service teams
• Participate in retrospectives, capacity meetings, and planning meetings with the team
• Participate in "lunch and learn" demos for new proofs of concept and design sessions
• Review, provide feedback on, and approve new design proposals from the team

Requirements

• Experience in observability and tracing, including Otel, Tempo, Sentry, or similar solutions
• Experience in observability and metrics, including Prometheus, Thanos, or similar solutions
• Software development experience, preferably building Kubernetes operators using Python, Bash, or Go
• Experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments
• Experience operating in the cloud; AWS and GCP preferred
• Experience with TDD, CI/CD, Chaos Engineering, or similar infrastructure resilience and reliability practices
• 8+ years of industry experience
• Proven ability to work effectively with local and remote teams
• Contributions to and involvement in open-source projects
• Experience being on-call
• Knowledge of SRE, DevOps, and GitOps practices
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in observability and tracing solutions, with a strong background in software development for cloud environments. Proven leadership in managing engineering teams and driving infrastructure resilience through best practices like TDD and CI/CD.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Observability And Tracing
• Kubernetes Operators Development
• Cloud Experience (AWS, GCP)
• TDD And CI/CD Practices
• SRE And DevOps Knowledge

Hard Skills

• Python
• Bash
• Go
• Otel
• Tempo
• Sentry
• Prometheus
• Thanos
• Linux Environments
• Chaos Engineering

Soft Skills

• Strong Verbal Communication
• Strong Written Communication
• Team Collaboration

Industry Keywords

• Distributed Tracing
• Metrics Platforms
• Infrastructure Resilience
• Open-Source Contributions
• GitOps Practices