Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Weave is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and scale its Voice Platform team. The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical contributions, including designing and reviewing Go microservices, overseeing SIP/RTP infrastructure, setting architectural direction, and supporting a scalable, observable cloud-based VoIP platform.
Responsibilities
- Provide people leadership, mentorship, and career growth management for engineers on the Voice Platform team
- Actively contribute to individual technical work, including designing, writing, and reviewing code for Golang microservices and SIP/RTP infrastructure
- Partner closely with Product Leadership to align engineering priorities with the product roadmap and actively manage the team backlog
- Set clear performance expectations, hold team members accountable, and conduct regular 1-on-1s and quarterly check-ins
- Provide architectural vision and technical ownership for scaling our distributed cloud-based VoIP platform
- Proactively eliminate knowledge silos and identify roadblocks to ensure steady execution and progression for the team
- Hire and retain top engineering talent through networking, sourcing, and leading structured interview cycles
- Collaborate with internal Weave customers and cross-functional teams (SRE, Product, Support) to support high platform availability and call quality
- Optimize and troubleshoot FreeSWITCH and Kamailio configurations for performance, resiliency, and observability using HEP/Homer
- Foster a culture of high engineering hygiene, trust, transparency, and alignment with Weave Core Values
Skills
- Proven experience in people leadership or technical team leadership within a software/telecom engineering organization
- Staff-level technical expertise in VoIP and SIP engineering, including deep familiarity with Kamailio, FreeSWITCH, RTPengine, and Homer
- Hands-on programming capability in Go (Golang) alongside scripting tools (Python, Bash, LUA)
- Deep understanding of TCP/IP networking, firewalls, and protocols (SIP, RTP, RTCP, TLS, ICE, STUN, TURN, WebRTC)
- Demonstrated ability to balance individual technical contributions with team leadership and administrative responsibilities
- Experience operating production services in cloud environments (GCP preferred) and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with DevOps infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- Strong conflict resolution, communication, and management-up capabilities
- Experience collaborating with HR partners to handle performance development and coaching
- Commitment to driving incident response, postmortems, and durable fixes
- Prior official experience as an Engineering Manager in a dual technical/leadership capacity
- Certifications in Kamailio or OpenSIPS
- 7+ years of experience designing, building, and leading large-scale distributed VoIP networks
- Proven track record of building trust, maintaining high morale, and promoting continuous career progression for direct reports
Benefits
- This position can be remote, in office, or hybrid
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