Glide (glideapps.com) · 4 months ago
Principal Software Engineer - Product / Frontend
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expGlide is a company focused on simplifying software development for non-technical users, and they are seeking a Tech Lead Manager to lead their Platform engineering team. The ideal candidate will drive the evolution of data sources strategy and ensure operational excellence while managing a team to foster growth and collaboration.
AppsMobileMobile AppsSoftwareWeb Development
Responsibilities
Facilitate the standardization of Glide’s data sync and persistence infrastructure
Drive integrations with data source platforms to be able to provide customers with new data sources at an accelerated pace
Design, develop, and maintain a REST API into Glide’s data and core services
Provide build, test, and runtime infrastructure to service teams
Ensure patterns are established for database throttling and request rate limiting to protect Glide’s uptime
Monitor infrastructure costs and coordinate improvements when necessary
Drive SRE tooling and best practices around observability and alerting
Cultivate an environment where team members are empowered through a collective sense of ownership and belonging
Meet with team members 1-on-1 on a regular basis
Ensure that team members learn, grow, and advance in their careers
Create a shared understanding of decision making, direction, and progress for the team and the company
Encourage an environment of technical excellence, and facilitate architectural discussions and decision making
Provide technical project management support to the team, ensuring projects are scoped well for delivery, managed for risk, and delivered well
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and across team boundaries to deliver key parts of our roadmap
Qualification
Required
5+ years engineering management experience
Experiencing building and maintaining highly available and scalable distributed systems
Have previously managed or built an infrastructure, developer experience, data, API, or equivalent platform team
Deep understanding of Accelerate concepts of Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Mean Time to Recovery, Change Failure Rate and how they affect delivery
You are a clear and effective communicator, be it when you write code, write emails, or explain complex technical issues to non-technical co-workers
Passionate and self-motivated, with a demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced and evolving environment
Preferred
Experience with data source platforms like Supabase, Airtable, Firestore, Sequin, Paragon
Experience with Google Cloud Platform services like Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, AlloyDB, or equivalent
Scaled an event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka, Cloud Pub/Sub, or other eventing system
Have given conference talks around the OpenAPI spec, REST, or GraphQL API patterns
Familiarity with telemetry and monitoring solutions like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Google Cloud Logging
Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
Benefits
Competitive salary and benefits package
Supportive and dynamic remote work environment
Opportunities for career growth
Company
Glide (glideapps.com)
Glide is a no code software development platform for building custom apps that optimize your business.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$23.75MKey Investors
BenchmarkFirst Round CapitalY Combinator
2022-04-21Series A· $20M
2019-11-05Seed· $3.6M
2019-03-22Pre Seed· $0.15M
Leadership Team
David Siegel
Founder, CEO
Mark Probst
Co-Founder
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