Software Engineering Manager: Product Backend

Observeinc

San Mateo, CA, United States permanent

Posted: March 27, 2025

Job Description

We are looking for an outstanding software engineering manager to lead and grow a world class team in the product backend area. Product backend teams are responsible for building core observability features such as log analytics, metrics, APM, tracing, on top of our novel data platform. You and your team will own the backend portion of one or multiple features in this area, make sure they can solve our customer's pain points, and can also be implemented efficiently and cost effectively with our platform.

As someone leading a team in this area, you will

• Work with our product team and frontend/UI leaders to define novel and differentiating observability features leveraging the unique capabilities of our data platform.

• Help your team members understand the product requirements. Break down the tasks and drive execution.

• Work with engineering leaders in the data platform area to drive improvements to our core data platform.

• Be responsible for the product feature full-cycle, from design, implementation, all the way to deployment and monitoring.

• Mentor and coach engineers and make sure they can grow and achieve their fullest potential.

An ideal candidate should be

• Passionate about building product features that solve real customer issues. Enjoy connecting customer requirements with technical capability.

• Proven record leading a >5 people team shipping product features end-to-end in a fast-paced environment.

• Deeply technical and not afraid of getting hands dirty and writing code when needed.

• Experienced working with a large scale data processing platform such as Snowflake, Trino, ClickHouse, etc. Knowledge of the internals of such system is a strong plus.

• Experienced building an enterprise-grade SaaS product.

• Familiarity with the observability space is a strong plus

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