Manager, Software Engineering (Remote)

Manager, Software Engineering

Company Overview

At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.

Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.

Job Summary

We’re looking for a Software Development Manager to join our engineering team and help continue building out our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) product. PMM is a free and open-source client/server platform for monitoring and managing the performance of SQL/NoSQL databases and servers, or cloud instances.

The Software Development Manager will lead the team that will continue building our flagship product and partner with our other engineering teams, which deliver critical open-source database distributions. We’re looking for an experienced manager who can grow our distributed work-from-home team (staff and contractors). We need someone with a background in developing efficient processes, selecting the right tools, and ensuring a high pace of delivery, as well as a demonstrated track record of working across teams to ensure that vital information is not lost, given that complex development requirements span multiple teams. At Percona, people are our most vital asset, so you should be someone who continually invests in helping them improve every day.

Key Responsibilities

• Remotely build and manage a distributed team of 10 developers and testers ranging from experienced to very senior
• Drive software delivery through championing team velocity, predictability, and accountability
• Ensure reliable delivery by managing scope, workload, addressing blockers and resource changes
• Develop people through coaching, mentoring, and management support
• Conduct regular 1:1, goal-setting, and feedback conversations with direct reports to ensure team health and individual growth
• Work with development teams, product managers, product owners, and others to maintain high levels of transparency, efficiency, collaboration and set context with the team so they are empowered and equipped to make great business and engineering-informed decisions
• Continually find ways to improve processes and efficiencies through technology and automation
• Strong ownership of team results, building on the good and taking corrective action on the bad

Requirements / Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading and managing development teams
• Experience managing an agile engineering team that has been responsible for multiple products in an environment where they are either shipped to end users or hosted as a single Web/SaaS application (huge plus if you’d lead a team that delivered both)
• Software Development experience is a must! We use Go and React, but you should have at least Java/Python/Angular/JavaScript or similar experience
• A cross-team facilitator: working with other teams and figuring out how to get things running more smoothly
• Knowledgeable about open source software
• High level of organization with a proven ability to prioritize, manage, budget, and deliver on time
• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience in project management with the ability to decompose complicated projects into simple tasks, estimate and manage risks
• Self-directed with the ability to operate independently without needing everyday input
• Maturity to build relationships and operate across the organization (not locked to only operate in the vertical chain)

Location

Remote, work-from-anywhere role, with a large portion of the broader team based in Eastern Europe.

Employment Type

Full Time

Salary & Benefits

Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.