Engineering Manager, Infrastructure (Privy)

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As an Engineering Manager at Privy, you will lead, grow, and shape high-performing engineering teams that make a massive impact on our product and industry. Your North Star is to enable and drive towards the success of Privy’s business overall.

What it asks for · 11

• Deep ownership and a high-level perspective on driving overall business impact
• Performance-oriented mindset, with a high bar for quality and excellence
• Technical excellence to be able to independently evaluate quality and technical feedback
• High emotional maturity, insightfulness, and care
• Strong past experience as a manager and leader – excellent management takes reps
• Experience with any of the following a plus:
• Designing and operating systems supporting hundreds of millions of users
• Secure enclave platforms, like AWS Nitro Enclaves
• Observability, incident response, capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure automation (IaC, CI/CD for infra)
• Background in building low-latency, high-throughput systems for trading or payment processing
• Any blend of public cloud/BYOC architectures

What the job covers

• Own long-term team outcomes and success of Privy’s product and business
• Drive the future vision of infrastructure of Privy alongside talented infrastructure engineers, across complex, cutting edge technology like secure enclaves (TEEs) and one-click Bring Your Own Cloud deployments, with performance and high scale as a default.
• Hold the team accountable to excellence in quality, throughput, and performance
• Leading active infrastructure work across the breadth of the company, from service definition, to reliability engineering, to developer tooling, and more
• Ensure the team is working on the right scope of work and projects, align decisions with business impact, and build interfaces with other parts of the org
• Fill gaps as a player-coach; review PRs, write and review design docs, investigate incidents – stay close to the metal and reinforce our builder culture
• Coach engineers towards growth and their career goals
• Build a supportive, fun, motivating, celebratory team culture so that the team wins every week

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• product9×
• engineering6×
• business5×
• impact5×
• infrastructure5×
• build4×
• enclaves4×
• engineers4×
• every4×
• excellence4×
• manager4×
• performance4×
• developers3×
• infra3×
• quality3×

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