Job Description
We believe passion and personality matter. As such, we need someone who can manage diverse, smart, and driven engineers while balancing personnel challenges with business requirements. A successful engineering manager will:
Mentor the professional development of each direct report through personal and performance management.
Give engineers the tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to the recognition of the engineers.
Initiate cross-functional collaborations with development teams throughout Twitter and gather feedback and requirements.
Seek diverse perspectives to drive bottom-up innovation and create buy-in from all technical stakeholders inside and outside the team.
Strive for technical excellence and longevity of solutions.
Guide and mentor the team members in their professional and personal development
Our ultimate goal is to 'ship it’, so it’s imperative that the engineering manager:
Is responsible for the team’s technical strategy and roadmap – creating success metrics in close collaboration with other Engineering and Product Managers.
Brings a strong perspective that drives change and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems.
Works with tech leads and senior engineers to gather system requirements, gut checks new feature proposals and large system improvements.
Has the technical capability to partner with tech leads and is comfortable diving into the fray to help drive resolution in the case of bad incidents.
Experience managing a distributed team in multiple US cities and times zones is preferred.
Qualifications
BS or higher in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
4+ years of software engineering experience
2+ years of experience of managing software teams
Additional Information
The Service Continuous Deployment team is a software engineering team, we build and operate a core piece of software for Twitter that is analogous to Spinnaker, Tekton, Airflow, et al. We have a passion for product development and our tooling has consistently polled as some of the most popular developer tooling inside Twitter. We value work-life balance and have a strong collaborative culture on the team. We take onboarding and mentoring new and junior engineers seriously. We are currently looking for folks of all experience levels to help us achieve our mission.
We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.
San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.