Manager, Engineering - Telemetry Pipelines

Chronosphere 

Chronosphere is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world. Chronosphere empowers customers to focus on the data and insights that matter by reducing data complexity, optimizing costs, and remediating issues faster. The observability platform reduces data volumes and associated costs by 60% on average while saving developers thousands of hours. Chronosphere’s Fluent Bit-based Telemetry Pipeline optimizes and simplifies observability and security log data. The product transforms logs at the source and routes them to any destination without lock-in.

Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including Snap, Robinhood, DoorDash, and Zillow. Learn more at Chronosphere.io. Follow at LinkedIn and X.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced engineering manager–someone who has a proven track record of developing and nurturing high performing teams, while maintaining hands-on technical abilities and skill in navigating and contributing to the engineering roadmap. 

This team owns, manages and maintains our Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline product. This product enables our customers to emit, augment, filter, route, and transform the flood of observability and SIEM data generated by their ever expanding applications and systems, allowing them to to sanely organize and easily access that data.

You Will

• Partner with product and design to build and vet strategy for the product, and collaborate in shaping the roadmap for the team

• Drive alignment and help the team navigate trade offs with clear prioritization outcomes

• Establish a clear delivery sequence aligned with the roadmap, and drive day-to-day ceremonies ensuring focus on priorities

• Eliminate barriers to execution, drive operational efficiency and high velocity for the team

• Collaborate and partner with sister teams to deliver on shared initiatives for the company

• Balance work across our individual contributors and help them do their best work by creating a healthy team environment

• Support and grow a team of engineers through all stages of their career 

• Own the reliability of our software in production. Be accountable for the uptime of our systems, and ensure that your team has the focus, tools, and processes needed to meet our reliability standards

• Collaborate with other engineering and product leaders on wider organizational initiatives

What you will achieve

In the first 3 months, you will build a deep understanding of Chronosphere’s Telemetry Pipelines product and will have time to learn about the domain, our customer’s needs, the underlying technology and how we deliver changes. You will establish relationships with our key stakeholders. You will manage your direct reports, owning the planning and day-to-day execution for the team with the support of your manager as need be.

After 3 months, you will independently manage all day to day activities of the team in close partnership with key stakeholders and your manager. You will contribute to driving process changes to ensure our organization scales effectively.

You have

• 5+ years of experience as an engineering manager of a highly performing, technical, product engineering team.

• Experience in effectively partnering with product and design to create roadmaps that provide clear direction for the team.

• Demonstrated the ability to drive alignment and focus on the team aligned to strategic direction and goals.

• Demonstrated the ability to establish or change processes to empower the team to achieve their goals.

• A proven track record of predictable and iterative delivery cadence on the team.

• Experience in coaching and developing software engineers of varied backgrounds and levels.

• Empathy and an understanding of how to support engineers to do their best work. 

• A high level of organization and the ability to manage multiple projects and initiatives from start to finish.

• Familiarity with enterprise software and software as a service. We deliver a highly reliable service to demanding business customers, and you should understand how this impacts the way product is built, validated, released, and operated.

• Experience in recruiting, making hiring decisions, closing hires, and building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe strongly that hiring is the responsibility of engineering management, and you should be able to demonstrate attracting, closing, and retaining engineers at multiple levels as need arises.

Location

United States - East Coast ( Remote)

The team

We are a global team spread across Europe, South America and United States
Reporting to Charu Govil, Engineering Manager

Our benefits

• Health Insurance Coverage

• Unlimited Vacation Time

• Competitive Salary

• Stock Options

• And More

Chronosphere is an equal opportunity employer. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't line up exactly with the job description. Your skills, passion, and desire to make a difference will stand out. At Chronosphere, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge the standard. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please email us at [email protected]

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To support our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, we urge applicants to omit personal identifiers, including names, and any details that explicitly indicate gender or ethnicity from their applications to reduce bias. However, applying through our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) will include identifiable contact information. Although this step is optional, Chronosphere is deeply committed to DEI. We recognize that achieving DEI is an ongoing journey for us as a company, and we believe it begins with our approach to hiring.

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Compensation Range: $220K - $250K