Manager, Engineering - Auvik

About Auvik

Auvik delivers cloud-based network management software that gives IT teams instant visibility and control over their infrastructure — whether on-site, remote, or dispersed across global networks. Our platform automates network discovery, mapping, monitoring, configuration backups, traffic analysis, and alerting, so IT professionals and MSPs can manage complex, multi-site environments with ease.

About the Role

You will lead and develop an engineering team responsible for building and evolving the core technology that powers Auvik’s Network Management product. This includes systems such as device discovery, identification, and consolidation. These systems are foundational and support many downstream services, making data quality, reliability, and scalability critical. You will be accountable for the health, performance, and ongoing evolution of these systems in production.

You will partner closely with Product Management and collaborate across teams to define priorities and drive execution, while building a high-performing team by developing talent, growing capabilities, and providing clear technical and organizational direction to ensure long-term success.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading a team of engineers, fostering growth, accountability, and a strong team culture.
• Owning team outcomes, ensuring delivery of high-quality solutions that drive meaningful customer and business value.
• Partnering with Product Management to shape priorities, make tradeoffs, and execute on roadmap initiatives.
• Collaborating with stakeholders and communicating progress, risks, and decisions clearly.
• Driving engineering excellence through best practices, tools, and efficient development processes.
• Providing technical guidance and supporting the evolution of Auvik’s technology stack, including microservices and modern frameworks.
• Recruiting, onboarding, and developing top engineering talent while maintaining a high-performance bar.
• Managing and scaling distributed teams across locations.
• Strengthening agile practices and improving delivery through CI/CD and modern workflows.
• Ensuring reliable production systems through strong operational practices such as incident and change management.

What We're Looking For

• A few years of experience leading and developing engineering teams, with a track record of building strong, accountable, and high-performing teams.
• Experience working with distributed teams and scaling engineering organizations.
• Ability to operate with ownership, make sound decisions, and navigate tradeoffs in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong product and business sense, with the ability to connect technical work to customer and business outcomes.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience operating and supporting production systems, with an emphasis on reliability and scalability.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and contribute to architectural and system design discussions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence across teams.
• Proven ability to recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent.

Bonus Points

• Experience in network management or monitoring.
• Experience with device management or identification.
• Experience with network automation.

Our Stack

• Backend: Go, Java, Scala
• Frontend: React (TypeScript), GraphQL
• Infrastructure & Data: Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS
• Datastores: Relational databases, NoSQL and document stores, OLAP systems
• Observability: Logging, metrics, and tracing across distributed systems

Hiring Process

1. Review of application by Talent Acquisition Partners.
2. Initial recruiter conversation.
3. Brief 5-minute Predictive Index (PI) assessment.
4. Virtual interviews via Zoom with the hiring manager and additional members of the hiring team.