Senior Engineering Manager - Storage Systems (Remote)

About the Role

It’s an exciting time to join us as a Senior Engineering Manager - Storage Systems remote! We’re entering new markets, developing new technologies, and moving step by step towards our goal of exciting the world. As our business grows, the number of exciting people initiatives grows with it, and we’re looking for a new colleague to partner with our team to bring these to life. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced engineering leader to drive the evolution of our messaging platform built on Kafka.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of engineers in a Senior Engineering Manager - Storage Systems remote role.
• Cultivate career growth, manage performance, and create a collaborative environment where engineers can thrive and create impact.
• Drive the evolution of our messaging platform, ensuring our Kafka-based infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and optimized to handle hundreds of millions of daily messages.
• Collaborate with platform framework teams to build common SDKs and abstractions to streamline usage, provide healthy guardrails, and enhance monitoring capabilities.
• Make key technical and architectural decisions guiding the team in architectural and technical decisioning related to distributed messaging systems.
• Foster operational excellence by implementing and maintaining best practices for monitoring, alerting, and incident response to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Align team objectives with business goals to ensure your team’s work delivers meaningful impact on product reliability and business growth.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of engineering management experience, preferably in a data engineering or storage team capacity.
• Strong technical depth in Kafka or similar distributed messaging systems to effectively guide the team in architectural and technical decisioning.
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud resource provisioning, and implementing operational excellence practices.
• Understanding of asynchronous message-driven architectures and their application in large-scale systems.
• Familiarity with data engineering and analytics workflows that rely on messaging infrastructure.
• Strong people management skills including expectation management, business value alignment, performance management, and career growth cultivation.
• Excellent communication abilities to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organization.
• Strategic thinking to balance immediate delivery needs with long-term technical vision and platform evolution.

Nice to Have

• Experience in the gaming or entertainment industry.
• Knowledge of additional messaging systems beyond Kafka.
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory standards in the gaming industry.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary in the range of $140,000 - $180,000 per year.
• Fully remote work flexibility.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Health and wellness benefits.
• Participation in exciting projects with a global impact.
• Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools.
• Work with a diverse team across multiple countries.