Aiven’s exceptional growth is a testament to our ambition in becoming the global category leader in managed cloud data infrastructure. Since its inception six years ago, Aiven’s mission has been to enable customers to drive business results from open source that trigger meaningful transformations for their businesses. We love to operate our favorite tools at scale and empower our customers to do great work. Aiven now has clients on every continent and in over 70 countries globally.
Headquartered in Helsinki with hubs in Berlin, Boston, Sydney, and Toronto, Aiven provides managed open-source data technologies, such as PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka®, and M3, on all major clouds. We have raised Series C funding totaling $160M and are backed by world-class investors including Atomico, IVP, and Earlybird Venture Capital, among others. With a recent valuation of $2B, we have become one of the tech world’s most recent unicorns!
We take pride in how we’ve grown and the positive and passionate working environment we’ve created makes us really excited about what we can achieve in the future. We live our values of openness and ownership every day, and ensure you’ll feel empowered to contribute creatively and meaningfully.
At Aiven we value and celebrate the diversity of our people. We recognize the many benefits of a diverse workforce and strive for an inclusive workplace that empowers all our colleagues to thrive. Our search for the best talent fully encompasses and embraces these values and principles.
We are now looking for an Engineering Manager for our distributed Open Source Program Office team! This position is open to candidates in the Helsinki or Berlin area and to remote candidates in Europe. We will also consider candidates in other regions.
In this role, you will be working with your direct reports as well as with other managers in the OSPO, product managers and company leadership to build the future of Aiven.
You will be leading and enabling a growing team of Open Source developers working remotely. The team focuses on contributing to Open Source projects like Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, and MySQL among many others. People reporting to you will be defined according to your background.
To succeed in that role, you ideally:
- have previously contributed to Open Source projects
- know how to support a team of experts to continuously learn and improve
- excel at getting the best out of people and have consistently built great teams through an inspiring and effective leadership style
- enable and empower your team
- have experiences with working in a rapidly growing organization
- have hands on experience with any of the following projects: Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, Apache Cassandra®, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse, M3 or Redis
- People Management Skills
- You have at least 5 years of hands-on technical leadership with at least 2 years of people management experience
- You have experience in recruiting strong engineering talents
- You have a passion for managing and motivating teams to reach their potential, including performance management
- You understand what it takes to build performing teams and develop talents
- You know how to work in a distributed team environment
- You are familiar with establishing a way of working and run continuous improvements
- You understand the peculiarities of the Open Source environment
- Technical Skills
- Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- At least 5+ years experience as a software developer
- Strong standing in technical discussions, a subject matter expert, and getting-things-done mentality
- Have a proven experience in contributing to Open Source projects in the past
- Experience working in a fast-growing tech start-up / scale-up
A fast- growing cloud open source tech company offering:
- large variety of opportunities to develop and progress your career in multiple directions
- diverse and international working environment
- extra remuneration for open-source contributions
- participation in employee stock option plan
- flexible working hours and remote working flexibility
- relocation package
- mobile phone of your choice and subscription
Multiple additional perks and benefits including:
- Aiven Library - books of your choice to widen your knowledge
- German and Finnish language courses
- company sponsored events
You will be part of a highly-skilled, tight-knit team, learn from our experience, and make your contribution essential to what is becoming a great success story. If you’re excited by this opportunity, please send us your application.
Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes.
Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment._