Now Hiring: Engineering Manager, Cloud

About us

Gatsby is a remote-first, community-focused team working to build a high-performance, fun to use, accessible, and astonishingly flexible presentation layer for any data source. Our core values include transparency (our work is public most of the time); creating a safe, high-trust team; building incredible developer experiences; maintaining a healthy working environment; and helping deliver web experiences that feel amazing to use on every device and connection type.

Details of the role

• Type of Work: Full-time employee
• Location: Remote (preference for UTC-8 to UTC+4)

Why we need you

Gatsby is the future of the web, and the web is an incredibly diverse ecosystem. This means we need leaders who can intuitively appreciate the value that the commercial services we build offer customers. The cloud team is expanding rapidly and we need someone with a deep understanding of the very cool technology, but an equally profound sense of empathy required to grow both individual contributors and future leaders in this critical part of our company.

Why this is interesting

Gatsby is used by cutting-edge developers to create beautiful sites. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the commercial side of the business, making the already wildly-popular open source framework shine through our hosted cloud product. We need to establish ourselves as the obvious best-of-breed platform for building, deploying, and maintaining Gatsby sites at any scale.

Your responsibilities

You will be responsible for people, projects, and processes. You will partner with your team and peers to:

• Foster an inclusive environment through empathy, not just inside engineering, but across all the teams in Gatsby.

• Partner with Product Management and Design to find the best blend of quality, agility, and work/life sanity.

• Wrangle many timezones, as you will lead a geographically diverse team.

• Make sure your team is fully equipped for their job, including:

  • Context - make sure they know what is happening outside engineering
  • Vision - make sure they know what it coming next, even if we’re not there yet
  • Skills - ensure that each team member grows and feels confident in delivery
  • Tools - pick and curate the dev environment (with the team’s input)
  • Processes - hand-in-hand with tools, make sure that we’re continuously evolving our planning and dev approach to have just enough structure to keep us on track

• Empower your team by offering clear ownership of technical challenges in a world where you and other leaders are still wearing many hats and finding the ones with the best fit.

• Help evolve the management practices at Gatsby. We’re all learning more every day!

This might be you if you….

• Have a consistent track record of delivering high-quality software in regular, iterative releases through coordinating a remote team.
• Have strong communication skills, verbal and written.
• Have successfully managed people, including recruiting and hiring, coaching, mentoring, evaluating, and promoting.
• Have been involved in transformational initiatives with new technologies and targeting new personas.
• Are able to coordinate and work with teams and stakeholders across the organization.
• Have experience with Kubernetes, Google Cloud (or other cloud vendors), and the challenges of building and operating scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Have exposure to JavaScript (ES2015+) and/or TypeScript. The Gatsby Cloud team is a JavaScript team with multiple Node.js backend applications and a -React frontend, so strong familiarity with the language is important.
• Have some familiarity with GraphQL.
• Have strong empathy and a willingness to define the nuances of team roles (including your own!) as you go.

The best parts of this job

• The people and culture of a team genuinely invested in building something great
• You’ll be leading the growth of cutting edge services allowing customers to build and run their Gatsby sites at scale.
• You’ll be leading a group of supportive, talented, and friendly people towards delivering a great platform experience.
• You’ll have the opportunity (even expectation) to constantly learn and innovate, in both tech approaches and process definition.
• You’ll help implement highly reliable systems, automate eagerly, and make our users and customers thrilled with the resulting experience.
• Your role will be key to making Gatsby the next way to build on the web—and a technology that enables the next billion internet users.
• You will get to look back on this time as the “early, exciting days” of Gatsby. You’ll get to watch members of your team become future leaders and luminaries in a space that isn’t fully defined or formed yet.

The worst parts of this job (maybe)

• We’re all still figuring a lot of stuff out. Things can feel unstructured or messy. Part of your job is to smooth out what we collectively don’t like. And that can be hard.
• The company is growing fast, which means lots of people wearing lots of hats, and sometimes exchanging them for new ones. Doing this while protecting a team (or individual’s) sense of ownership and security is hard. And it’s part of this job. Sorry. :-)
• Product and strategic direction can change. We’re building a whole new area of growth in an absolutely huge potential market. Absorbing (and/or pushing back as you see fit) that change so your team doesn’t feel unnecessary churn is also hard. And also part of this job. Still sorry. :-)

Benefits

• Amazing health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family (US only)
• Unlimited vacation policy, with a minimum of 15 days paid vacation time
• 3 months of paid parental leave covering both adoption and foster placement
• Skip the commute with remote work
• Fly to cool locations 3x/year for company-wide meetups
• Stock options in a fast-growing startup
• Gatsby Sabbatical: 4 weeks of paid vacation after 4 years tenure

Our Hiring Process

Gatsby is an equal opportunity employer. We eagerly seek applicants of diverse backgrounds and hire without regard to race, color, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical abilities (or disability), age, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cultivating inclusivity and diversity is a top priority.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Gatsby does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Gatsby.