MANAGER, PAAS ENGINEERING
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Posted: September 12, 2015
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Quick Summary
We are building a Platform As A Service (PaaS) system that will be used by a large company to manage their infrastructure and applications. The system will be designed to be highly scalable and reliable, with a focus on cutting-edge technology and a world-class team. The ideal candidate will be able to work on a high-visibility project with a fast-paced team.
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MANAGER, PAAS ENGINEERING
Job Description
Primary Job Responsibilities Massive scale? ✓
Cutting edge technology? ✓
A system that “just works”? ✓
Job Requirements
Massive scale? ✓
Cutting edge technology? ✓
A system that “just works”? ✓
World class team? ✓
Ability to change the world? ✓
Want to be in the pole position on an exciting journey solving hard problems that test the limits of highly scalable distributed systems? We are building a Platform As A Service (PaaS) system that “just works” and can keep our massive site running healthy, in a lights-out fashion.
We are looking for a hands-on engineering leader for this rockstar team.
The eBay PaaS system runs tens of thousands of servers, thousands of deployments, a large elastic compute engine while enabling an agile platform for developers to build, test and release code.
Key Job Responsibilities:
Own and drive various components of PaaS system
Manage a team of developers designing and implementing the next-gen, self-healing PaaS, as well as improving existing products
Participate and work with leadership, product management, quality counterparts in strategic planning and management for resources, environments and releases
Own scheduling and on-time delivery of features throughout the software development lifecycle
Work across platform, operations, and development teams to deliver highly scalable and reliable software deployment and management services
Architect and deliver a strong development process that ensures high quality and business agility
Provide timely and appropriate communication to stakeholders, and customers on issue status and resolution
Recruit top talent and passionate about growing them.
Ensure high availability and reliability SLAs of PaaS services
Be a technical thought leader for the team and provide direction whenever required
Mentor team members so that they can perform to their fullest potential.
Job Requirements:
10+ years of experience in the relevant technology industries, in requirements analysis, design, development and testing of online, distributed, enterprise-class applications/platforms with particular attention to scalability and high performance.
3+ years of Management experience and a track record building and developing high performing teams and attracting and developing technology talent
Passionate about learning new technology, take pride in code quality and a self-starter
Strong system-level troubleshooting skills and ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks.
Sound background of cloud technologies and frameworks, preferably OpenStack and AWS
Knowledge on container and clustering technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos etc.
Proven experience architecting and implementing scalable, resilient, reliable distributed systems
A high level knowledge and experience of industry trends and technology advancements relating to providing platforms as a service
Experience in participating in open source standards and contributing to open source is highly desirable
CANDIDATE DETAILS
10+ to 15 years experience
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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