Systems Engineering Manager jobs in Roanoke, VA

Meet the Team:

Developer & Operational Tools enables our Autonomy engineering teams to focus on their core responsibilities and deliverables by providing them with foundational services, systems, and tools that support their workflows and enable our customers to operate a scalable fleet of autonomous trucks. The Data Systems group owns vehicle and simulation data ingestion, data lake, data processing and enrichment frameworks, data discovery tools, business intelligence tools, and machine learning infrastructure. We work in a distributed team with a remote-first mindset. By that we just mean that we work to ensure everyone is on the same playing field in terms of collaboration and information, regardless of where they work. We collaborate frequently in many different forms including daily stand-ups, planning meetings, and many ad-hoc discussions/brainstorming/troubleshooting/pairing sessions over zoom or slack. Our team is operationally responsible for the services we own, so we do have an on-call rotation in place where each member will take a turn serving as the front-line to incidents for our services. Rotations last a week each, during business hours. We value maintaining a healthy work/life balance and prefer sustainable development over heroic efforts.

What you’ll do:

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on implementing and maintaining AWS-based data management and execution solutions at petabyte scale. In this role you will be responsible for people management, work execution, and representing your team throughout the organization. You will also drive the technical roadmap that enables data-driven analytics and machine learning across the enterprise.

• Owns technical direction and represents the team in technical discussions.
• Establishes plans and ensures team delivery toward milestones.
• Effectively collaborates with others in the organization to improve the team’s service offerings.
• Sets and facilitates processes for the delivery of scalable, high-quality software and services.
• Sets operational standards and owns performance against those standards; ensures standards are aligned with other teams in the division.
• Owns performance management, career development, and coaching of the team.
• Recruits high-quality technical candidates to fill open headcount.
• Establishes and maintains a culture of respect, productivity, collaboration, and positivity. 

What you’ll need to Succeed:

• BS/MS Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• 4 plus years of experience building and maintaining workloads in public cloud environments
• Deep knowledge of different database architectures, including but not limited to relational and NoSQL databases, data warehousing and clustered, distributed data stores
• Implementation of workflow patterns using directed acyclic graphs (Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions)
• A strong commitment to test-driven development patterns, continuous integration and delivery, and infrastructure as code
• Practical experience with Python libraries for applied data science (Pandas, Plotly, Matplotlib, Dask, TensorFlow)

Bonus Points!

• Strong organizational, time management, and communication skills working with a team orientation and collaborative style
• Deep knowledge of AWS serverless architectures (Lambda, Batch, ECS Fargate, Glue, Athena)
• Experience with data storage and acquisition patterns for robotics and advanced driver assistance systems