Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MetalBear is a remote-first, early-stage, product-led company building mirrord, a Kubernetes development platform for running code against live clusters. The Software Engineering Team Lead will lead the Cloud Integrations Team, designing and maintaining cloud integration features while contributing hands-on to the codebase, setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and driving roadmap execution.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of mirrord’s cloud integration features like queue splitting, DB branching, and more
- Stay hands-on and actively contribute to the codebase
- Work with **Kubernetes,** cloud services, DB systems, message brokers, and other tools and platforms
- Set the technical direction for the team and maintain high engineering standards
- Drive smart, effective use of AI across the team
- Help prioritize work, unblock engineers, and drive roadmap execution
- Hire and mentor engineers as the team grows
- Partner with Product, Solution Engineering and directly with users to drive adoption and expansion
Skills
- At least 1 year of experience leading engineering teams
- At least 4 years of professional experience writing production-grade code in **Rust** (most preferably), C++, or C
- Excellent communication skills
- Understanding of **Kubernetes** and cloud-native environments
- Strong systems-level thinking and an ability to debug complex, distributed environments
- Comfortable working async in a remote-first, startup environment
- Experience building **developer tools**
- Experience building **Kubernetes operators** or other components that interact with **the Kubernetes API**
- Familiarity with backend infrastructure tooling like **data stores, message brokers**, GitOps tools, etc
Benefits
- Remote-first, async-friendly, and low on meetings.
- Stock options.
- Work on an open-source product used and loved by developers.
- A culture that respects your time.
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