Engineering Manager (Webshare product)
We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.
What’s in store for you:
You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:
- 6PB+ Ceph storage
- 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems
- 300k+ service requests/sec processed
- 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed
In this role, you’ll:
- Lead people management (hiring, growth, performance, salary reviews).
- Manage 8-10 senior engineers team delivery according to business priorities, ensuring right team ambition according to capacity.
- Champion team health: Catch problems early, don’t wait for retros.
- Ensure team skill composition matches product direction.
- Own delivery outcomes: PM defines what/why; EM owns how/when/who.
- Accept work from PM, push back when specs aren’t ready.
- Report delivery expectations, status and flags to business.
- Balance features, experiments, tech debt, bug fixes.
- Remove impediments: cross-team deps, infra blockers, unclear requirements.
- Drive technical excellence: code review culture, testing, observability.
- Maintain infrastructure reliability (650B+ req/month, 300K+ req/sec - uptime is existential).
- Own day-to-day architecture decisions; escalate strategic ones to Head of PD.
- Navigate tech debt decisions: when to pay down, when to live with it.