Engineering Manager – Infrastructure – Performance and Security – High Frequency Trading Full Time (Remote)

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Kraken is looking for an experienced engineering manager to grow and lead our Infrastructure Performance and Security Team. In this role you manage multiple engineers from early career to principal engineers. You likely relinquish personal ownership of code (although we expect that you stay embroiled in the details of your team’s projects and still do some technical work yourself). You’re self-directed, working cross-functionally with stakeholders across the business, delivering work that impacts the engineering organization as a whole, and driving your part of your organization’s roadmap.

The goal for a engineering manager is to deeply understand all the technology used by your organization, maintains the bar for production operation and monitoring of all teams within their organizational chain by developing processes to hold them accountable, manage your engineer’s careers, expectations, performance and level of happiness, adjust organization wide processes by listening to feedback and guiding all teams through the changes whilst owning projects and initiatives that have organization wide impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience leading technology teams
• A deep understanding of low latency technologies. You thrive in bare metal type environments and know how to squeeze every bit of performance out of the machine your software is running on.
• A deep understanding of security. You know your way around linux kernels and how to tweak them to build extremely secure environments.
• You’re not afraid of hard conversations and are gifted at coaching your colleagues through difficult situations.
• You are strategic and think at a high level, but are also hands-on, execution-oriented, and capable of getting things done quickly.
• You have an ability to translate a long-term vision into a near-term, executable plan.
• You are a self starter, able to take a project from start to finish
• Deep experience with communicating with stakeholders to gather requirements and understand the business context
• Experience creating team roadmaps, setting OKRs, and making sure they are completed.

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