Sr Manager, Engineering - Engineer
About the role
Cadence is a modern open source microservice orchestration platform developed at Uber and adopted by many leading companies. It serves as the backbone for thousands of Cadence domains at Uber, powering billions of executions each month. With a rapidly growing open source community, Cadence offers the opportunity to make an impact not just at the company level but across the industry. We are seeking an Sr Engineering Manage with experience building and leading highly scalable, high throughput, low latency, multi tenant backend systems. Beyond technical expertise, we are looking for someone passionate about building strong engineering teams, driving technical excellence, and fostering an open source community. In this role, you will lead a backend engineering team, mentor and grow engineers, shape technical strategy, and collaborate with engineers, product partners, and the broader Cadence community to deliver cutting edge distributed technology. To get more information about Cadence you check our website ( https://cadenceworkflow.io/ ), LinkedIn page ( https://www.linkedin.com/company/cadenceworkflow ).
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow an engineering organization responsible for building and operating Cadence workflow orchestration engine.
- Drive execution of multiple technical projects and initiatives from strategy and planning through delivery.
- Partner with engineering leaders to define architecture, technical direction, and engineering best practices.
- Develop engineering managers and senior engineers through coaching, mentorship, and career growth support.
- Contribute to an open source project used by many major companies.
- Improve onboarding, observability, reliability, and operability experiences for Cadence.
- Collaborate with the open source community, understand user needs, and help shape the future of Cadence.
- Define and improve engineering processes used internally and across the community.
- Build strong partnerships across engineering, product, and other organizations to drive alignment and execution.
- Establish and communicate a long term technical and organizational strategy for Cadence.
Requirements
- Experience leading and developing software engineering organizations, including experience managing engineering managers.
- Strong background building backend infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Experience with highly scalable, high throughput, low latency, multi tenant systems.
- Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals and system design.
- Experience working with multiple programming languages, e.g. Go, Java, or C++.
- Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to guide architectural decisions, establish technical strategy, and drive consensus across stakeholders.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product partners, and technical leaders.
- Experience managing complex, multi-team projects and delivering high quality software.
- BS degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field. Masters/Ph.D. preferred.
- 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including experience managing engineering teams.
Qualifications
- Experience leading teams/organizations working on distributed systems or large scale infrastructure.
- Experience managing engineering managers and developing engineering leaders.
- Experience contributing to or leading an open source project.
- Experience with workflow orchestration engines.
- Strong technical background with a high bar for quality, scalability, and reliability.
- Deep knowledge of modern observability, storage, provisioning technologies.
- Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure used by other engineering teams.
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program.
- May be offered an equity award & other types of compensation.
- All full-time employees eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan.
- Various benefits (health, wellness, etc.).
Pay
- For San Francisco, CA-based roles: base salary range USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.
- For Seattle, WA-based