Engineering Manager, Real-Time Messaging (Remote - Worldwide)

Candidates can work from anywhere; the team operates asynchronously across many time zones. A fast-growing developer data platform company is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead its real-time messaging team. The service covers low-latency client messaging, shared user state tracking, and live database change feeds, running on a globally distributed cluster. The team balances latency, fair usage limits across customers, and infrastructure cost, with reliability treated as a core priority. This is a people, delivery and technical leadership role, not an individual contributor role.

What you'll do

• Lead, grow and retain a team of experienced engineers through 1:1s, performance management, career development and onboarding in a remote-first setting.
• Own hiring for the team as the hiring manager, conduct first-round interviews, and work with talent acquisition to close strong candidates.
• Own the team's roadmap, milestones and delivery tracking, and keep stakeholders informed through concise written updates.
• Triage cross-team requests and support workload, decide what is prioritized or declined, and keep the team's service level objectives on track.
• Train as an incident commander, lead coordination during production incidents, and run blameless post-incident reviews.
• Join design discussions and help set standards for engineering quality, testing and operations.

What you need

• 5+ years of engineering experience, with enough depth to be credible with engineers building complex distributed systems.
• 3+ years managing remote engineering teams across time zones, working mainly asynchronously.
• Experience managing a team that built or ran a low-latency, high-connection service such as WebSockets, pub/sub, messaging, presence or streaming.
• Working knowledge of distributed systems topics such as clustering, rate limiting, backpressure and capacity planning.
• Track record of handling difficult performance conversations and giving regular, direct feedback.
• Strong written communication skills and comfort building structure in ambiguous situations.
• Experience with Elixir, Erlang or the BEAM ecosystem.
• Experience with Postgres logical replication or Row Level Security.

Open to applicants anywhere in the world.

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