As the Engineering Manager of your team, the buck stops with you: you are the owner of your team’s ultimate impact on Privy’s product and business. We believe that excellence in management is why our team loves working at Privy. Incredible managers are the core driver behind Privy’s long-term success: they are force multipliers, performance coaches, culture-carriers. They build the scaffolding that supports the team and each individual’s greatest impact. They shape Privy to be the place where each person gets to do the very best work of their careers.
We wake up every day driven to show up for our team. We shape roles around the unique strengths of every person and we are deeply grateful for the time we spend together building something greater than ourselves.
Infrastructure at Privy is fundamentally a product. With both internal engineers (and increasingly non-engineers) as direct consumers of infra platforms, as well as external product offerings, it is essential that the infra team creates powerful abstractions, educates and grows the Privy team on shipping ever-better software, and operates deeply efficient tooling to be the lever arm for which Privy moves the world.
What you’ll do
Own long-term team outcomes and success of Privy’s product and business
Drive the future vision of infrastructure of Privy alongside talented infrastructure engineers, across complex, cutting edge technology like secure enclaves (TEEs) and one-click Bring Your Own Cloud deployments, with performance and high scale as a default.
Hold the team accountable to excellence in quality, throughput, and performance
Leading active infrastructure work across the breadth of the company, from service definition, to reliability engineering, to developer tooling, and more
Ensure the team is working on the right scope of work and projects, align decisions with business impact, and build interfaces with other parts of the org
Fill gaps as a player-coach; review PRs, write and review design docs, investigate incidents – stay close to the metal and reinforce our builder culture
Coach engineers towards growth and their career goals
Build a supportive, fun, motivating, celebratory team culture so that the team wins every week
Who You Are
Deep ownership and a high-level perspective on driving overall business impact
Performance-oriented mindset, with a high bar for quality and excellence
Technical excellence to be able to independently evaluate quality and technical feedback
High emotional maturity, insightfulness, and care
Strong past experience as a manager and leader – excellent management takes reps
Experience with any of the following a plus
Designing and operating systems supporting hundreds of millions of users
Secure enclave platforms, like AWS Nitro Enclaves
Observability, incident response, capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure automation (IaC, CI/CD for infra)
Background in building low-latency, high-throughput systems for trading or payment processing
Any blend of public cloud/BYOC architectures
