Sr. Manager, System Engeineering

SingleStore
Boston
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Communication","Technical judgment","Collaboration","Troubleshooting","Incident response"]

Lead day-to-day engineering operations for SingleStore’s private data center and infrastructure environment that powers large-scale database testing. Manage and mentor a small systems engineering team while staying hands-on in architecture reviews, troubleshooting, incident response, and infrastructure automation. Own compute, storage, networking, and orchestration domains, drive hardware reliability and lifecycle improvements, and coordinate with internal partners, contractors, and vendors to ensure dependable deployments and operations.

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SingleStore
SingleStore
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Sr. Manager, System Engeineering

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Job Summary

Lead day-to-day engineering operations for SingleStore’s private data center and infrastructure environment that powers large-scale database testing. Manage and mentor a small systems engineering team while staying hands-on in architecture reviews, troubleshooting, incident response, and infrastructure automation. Own compute, storage, networking, and orchestration domains, drive hardware reliability and lifecycle improvements, and coordinate with internal partners, contractors, and vendors to ensure dependable deployments and operations.
Location: Boston
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead day-to-day engineering operations for data center and infrastructure systems with accountability for reliability, maintainability, and execution quality.
  • •Manage and mentor a small systems engineering team while staying technically engaged in architecture reviews, troubleshooting, and high-priority operational work.
  • •Own core infrastructure domains across compute, storage, networking, and orchestration to ensure they operate as a coherent environment.
  • •Drive operational improvements across hardware reliability, installation standards, maintenance planning, and lifecycle management.
  • •Oversee technical incident response, including root cause analysis, repair planning, and systemic reliability improvements.

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years’ experience in systems engineering, infrastructure software, platform engineering, or a closely related domain with meaningful hands-on depth.
  • •2+ years leading engineers or technical teams in a manager or player-coach capacity.
  • •Strong experience operating and improving infrastructure across several areas such as data center systems, storage platforms, network infrastructure, virtualization, and distributed systems.
  • •Experience designing, implementing, or materially improving infrastructure automation, configuration management, or infrastructure orchestration workflows.
  • •Hands-on experience with Terraform (or comparable infrastructure-as-code) and experience with Kubernetes migrations for operational reliability.
Experience:Systems engineeringInfrastructurePlatform engineeringData centerDistributed systems
Skills:CommunicationTechnical judgmentCollaborationTroubleshootingIncident response
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TerraformKubernetesCC++GoPythonBashUnixDistributed systemsVirtualizationConfiguration management

Company Brief

SingleStore
Provides a distributed, high-performance SQL database for real-time analytics and transactions. SingleStore delivers a cloud-native platform that combines transactional and analytical workloads for modern data-intensive applications.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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