Senior Engineering Manager

Atoms

$185K — $254K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years managing engineering teams, preferably in observability or infrastructure roles
  • Solid understanding of engineering architecture and design to assess technical decisions
  • Ability to operate independently without PM or TPM support
  • Familiarity or quick-learning capability with Go, Azure/Azure Kubernetes, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry stack

Responsibilities

  • Lead a 6-engineer team on end-to-end observability for infrastructure
  • Independently manage the observability and cost initiative roadmap, directly collaborating with engineering managers
  • Reduce detection and mitigation times for production incidents across a complex service architecture
  • Expand observability efforts to new areas like autonomous mining transport
  • Enhance and maintain a cost-efficient observability stack
  • Effectively represent technical state and progress without deferring to others
  • Remain hands-on to assist the team as needed, leveraging AI tools for insights
  • Develop the team's engineers' careers while maintaining strong technical ownership

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance with multiple plans including HSA options
  • Company-paid life and disability insurance
  • Voluntary insurance options for accidents and critical illness
  • 401(k) plan available
  • Discretionary vacation days along with paid holidays and sick leave
  • Additional benefits including pet insurance discounts and health savings accounts
Full Job Description
What you'll do
  • Lead a team of 6 engineers owning end-to-end observability across the company's infrastructure, including logs, metrics, traces, and event-based monitoring
  • Own the roadmap for our observability and cost initiative independently, no PM or TPM support, meeting directly with engineering managers across the company to identify pain points and design end-to-end solutions
  • Drive down time to detect and time to mitigate for production incidents across a system where a single request can traverse 60+ services
  • Extend observability coverage beyond our original food delivery systems into new physical domains, including autonomous mining transport, as the company's mission expands
  • Maintain and grow a highly cost-efficient observability stack (currently running at a fraction of comparable third-party tooling costs)
  • Represent the technical state of your domain in real time, speaking confidently to feasibility, scope, and timelines for any ask without needing to defer to others
  • Stay hands-on (roughly a third of your time), jumping in to unblock the team when needed, using AI tools to analyze issues and surface insights, without sitting on the critical path for delivery
  • Grow the careers of the engineers on your team while maintaining strong technical ownership of your domain


What we're looking for
  • 2+ years of experience managing and growing engineering teams, ideally within observability, platform, or infrastructure functions
  • Strong foundation in engineering architecture and design fundamentals, enough to evaluate your team's technical decisions and push back constructively, even if you're not the one architecting solutions day to day
  • Comfort operating without a PM or TPM, someone who can independently scope a roadmap, prioritize competing asks, and drive execution with high ownership
  • Experience with, or ability to quickly ramp on, our stack: Go, Azure/Azure Kubernetes, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry. Prior Go experience is not required


What else you need to know

This role is based in our Mountain View office. Atoms is a company driven by invention and continuous change - we are constantly reimagining our industries, building new products, and refining how we operate. We do our best work together. That's why all of our office-based teams work onsite, five days a week.

The base salary range for this role is $185,000 - $254,000 per year.

Actual compensation will be determined on an individual basis and may vary depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package. You may also be eligible for equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus.

Benefits Summary (USA Full-Time Exempt Employees):
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).
  • Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).
  • Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.
  • Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children.
  • Pet insurance discount.
  • 401(k).
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
  • Time Off policies:
    • Discretionary vacation days
    • 8 paid holidays per year
    • Paid sick time
    • Paid Bereavement leave
    • Paid Parental Leave

Benefits are subject to change at the company's discretion.
Atoms accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

Ready to join us as we serve those who serve others?

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