Senior Manager, Engineering

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Apache Kafka, AWS, Azure, Environmental, Leadership Skill, Product Management, SPARK Programming, Teamwork, Terraform

Job Description

Amperity is more than just the leading customer data platform — THE PEOPLE bring energy, smarts, and experience from all different backgrounds, reflecting our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. THE TECHNOLOGY is multi-patented, AI-powered customer data management software that we invented to help solve problems that have been frustrating consumer brands for years. THE OPPORTUNITY is to hitch your career to a rocket ship. We're addressing a critical market need: helping hundreds of leading brands make sense of massive amounts of transactional and engagement data so that they can understand their customers and provide experiences that delight while boosting revenue and moving the business metrics that matter. Come help us make it happen!

Interesting Problems

• Ingest and clean large amounts of data daily and blend it with real-time events.
• Automatically stitch data together across different systems by training machine-learning models to build a probabilistic customer knowledge graph.
• Realize research algorithms for high-scale production usage.
• Allow users to perform complex, real-time queries across an aggregated view of their data.
• Publishing insight-enriched data assets and query results to a diverse set of systems for client usage.
• Craft a powerful and elegant user experience that enables data-driven insights, actions and measurements by our users.
• And building the teams that accomplish this flexibly, durably, and while supporting each other in a distributed working environment

About You

• Two or more years of software management experience in a fast-paced technology environment.
• Passion for building empowered, autonomous, psychologically safe teams that continuously improve their own working model.
• Five or more years of software development experience, with experience in big data systems, or large-scale distributed systems including hands-on engineering work in the past five years.
• Demonstrated passion for balancing robust SaaS craftsmanship with continually shipping value to customers.
• Leadership experience as the primary owner of complex projects involving coordination in-team and across teams, as well as between customers, product management, and engineering.
• Proven ability to adapt and transfer knowledge and learnings from prior contexts into new environments.
• Strong desire to learn and investigate new technologies in a hands-on, practical manner.

Technologies We Use

• Open Source tools such as Spark, K8s, Kafka, and Clojure.
• A microservice architecture, with most services written in Clojure.
• A web stack based on ClojureScript and the React family of tools
• Cloud-first automation including Terraform and SaltStack managing infrastructure from AWS, Azure and additional ecosystem partners.

Remote Available

Amperity has headquarters in Seattle and NYC. We are also currently hiring in CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, MA, MN, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, TX (Subject to change).

Compensation

Base Salary: $180,000 - $240,000. Within our pay range, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications such as skills, experience, and education/training.

Other Cash Incentives: For many of our positions, other cash incentives are also available.

Stock Options: The opportunity for ownership is an exciting part of Amperity's total compensation package. Every employee at Amperity receives a new-hire equity grant, commensurate with the scope of their position.

Benefits

We offer all the benefits you'd expect from a great place to work: 100% employee healthcare coverage, transportation subsidies, a comfortable work environment with plenty of snacks, and other employee experience perks like events and activities, both in-person and remote. We also offer self-managed PTO and the flexibility to do your best work in the way that works for you. We provide an inclusive environment where you'll be challenged to find and unlock your full potential, surrounded by a team of world-class people driving for excellence. For more details on our benefits, please see our US Benefits & Perks Guide.

Amperity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and reproductive health choices), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as someone with a disability, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.