Engineering Manager

We are a fast-growing Series A startup building cutting-edge technology to revolutionize cloud development processes and support highly efficient dev&test feedback loops. We've closed our last $25mil round in Q4 2024, led by Notable Capital, CRV and Heavybit.

At its core, LocalStack provides a high-fidelity emulator and local cloud development platform. Imagine developing cloud applications and data pipelines entirely on your local machine within a lightweight cloud sandbox, running in Docker!

Our mission is to empower developers to rapidly build and test their cloud applications, allowing for a more enjoyable dev experience, and saving valuable time and resources.

LocalStack has a large and active open-source community (57k+ stars on GitHub) with over 100k active users worldwide and 200M+ downloads to date. Our customer base ranges from SMBs to Global Fortune 500 companies.

We are sustainably growing our globally distributed team across sectors.

LocalStack is headquartered in Zurich/Switzerland, with a main engineering office in Vienna/Austria and remote team members from the US, FR, UK, CA, ES, and many more countries.

This is the right opportunity for a person with 2-4 years in an Engineering Manager role, developer background, experience in chaotic fast-paced environments, and experience managing a team of 8-10 engineers as well as a strong ability to lead architectural and system design decisions.

Requirements

What you will be working on/responsible for:

• Facilitate the roadmap for your team, prioritise what team works on, ensure on-time delivery and great quality of code.
• Champion good engineering practices in your team.
• Grow and coach members of your team, ensuring they progress well and shine in their roles.
• As we scale, together with other EMs and Engineering leaders, suggest improvements to overall technical structure and processes.
• Ensure strong alignment between team members, making sure there is sufficient time to work on priorities.
• Ensure a collaborative and understanding culture within the team as we work in a remote-first context.

Experience we expect you to bring to the role:

• Not afraid to be hands-on in technical architecture and design decisions and jump into solving issues with the team.
• Developer background.
• (Preferred) Python, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Experience in a dynamic, developing, and chaotic environment (comfortable with ambiguity and agile environment).
• Experience managing a team of around 8-10 engineers for at least 2+ years.
• Servant leadership style.

Our engineering culture:

• Taking ownership.
• Being proactive and collaborative.
• Delivering high-quality technical contributions.
• Working on the right things.
• Communicating openly and clearly.
• Participate actively.
• Showing empathy and compassion.
• No-ego feedback culture.

Values we hold in LocalStack:

• Care: we create with compassion. We prioritize empathy and understanding in every interaction.
• Ownership: we own the outcome. We take responsibility for our work and are passionate about its impact.
• Openness: we build trust together through open communication and honest feedback.
• Courage: we dare to innovate. We embrace bold challenges and take calculated risks.
• Excellence: we chase the extraordinary by pushing boundaries and delivering results that go beyond the ordinary.

Benefits

• Fully remote.
• Competitive salary.
• Performance bonus.
• Competitive share options.
• Annual company retreat.
• The best equipment for your role.
• Learning budget.