Ideal Characteristics / Profile
- Built and led strong engineering teams in the distributed systems space
- Well-defined hiring and retention process and philosophy, set up to create diverse, high performing teams
- Mentor and motivate team members, along with aiding their growth and advancement
- Exposure to, and understanding of open-source projects
- While not limited to specific technologies, some exposure to public / private cloud based development with the big 3 clouds / OpenStack / Kubernetes, and languages like nodejs, python, Go, Ruby is desirable
- Technically proficient enough to drive tradeoff evaluations and execution decisions. Dives deep and understands tradeoffs in technology and strategy decisions.
- Can manage geographically distributed teams, even with small numbers of individual contributors in different locations
- Strong organizational skills - ability to manage schedule, people and cost / budget
- Culture fit: identifies with our core values
- Bar raiser - Amplifies the overall ability and productivity of the team
Nice to have
- Exposure to application development in the cloud-native landscape is a bonus
- Entrepreneurial bent - ability to balance growth with development
- Evangelism - interest and ability to be the spokesperson for Platform9 externally
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, and the associated ecosystem
- Exposure to serverless / FaaS technologies, particularly within the Kubernetes ecosystem