Engineering Manager (Database Engineering)

About the Role

As an Engineering manager Database group at Miro, your role will be to define the strategy and build a strong team that will work on a main Miro Database cluster to enable scale from hundreds of database instances to thousands with proper automation, observability, and incident management.

About the Team

Miro is on a hyper-growth trajectory, scaling very fast and attracting world-class talent to support the business growth and stay ahead of the game. The engineering organization here is a unique group of people who are on a mission to create the best innovation platform out there.

The Infrastructure stream is all about product reliability, high-load, and high-available services. As part of the Infrastructure stream Database engineering group is aiming to provide a reliable and scalable solution for the main Miro's database clusters.

What you’ll do

• Building and leading one of the teams within the Infrastructure stream (people management, hiring, process development, and interfacing with other teams)
• Guide and mentor team members for their professional and career growth
• Develop a team plan to achieve quarterly OKRs on time and with excellent outcomes, closely collaborate with other teams to align dependencies and cross-team efforts
• Be a role model, technically strong to help your team develop and help when needed
• Contribute to the product architecture as a Backend/DBA Engineer: Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity, design and implement scalable and high-performing solutions, on-duty responsibility, and incident management
• Collaborate with teams across Miro to improve our product, architecture, and engineering practices

What you’ll need

• Experience building robust, high-scale, distributed systems in production environments
• Strong Backend experience. Java ecosystem is preferable. Data storage services: RDBMS (Postgres/MySQL), AWS DynamoDB/MongoDB, AWS S3
• Understanding of high-load architecture and SaaS infrastructure
• Knowledge and experience with AWS Cloud architecture
• Experience with incident management process and observability
• You are highly motivated to develop high-quality solutions quickly and without mentorship
• You have at least 2year of experience managing an engineering team, including hiring, personal development, performance management, delivery management
• Excellent communication skills
• Fluent in English

What’s in it for you

• Competitive equity package
• Medical Insurance coverage
• Travel allowance for your commute
• Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
• Allowance to facilitate remote working during WFH period
• Weekly team activities (even virtually) to keep the spirits high
• Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
• Inspiring workplace in the heart of Amsterdam