Lead, Software Engineering - Core Services

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.

Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 315,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

As the Engineering Manager for the Core Services team, you will lead the team which is responsible for Nextdoor's highest throughput and most critical services. You'll define Nextdoor's strategic approach to building and hosting highly scalable, cloud native data stores, and have an opportunity to work on systems at a scale of millions of QPS. The primary focus of the team is an iterative investment in a distributed, globally replicated graph store with highly available tiered caching. This datastore will provide predictable performance and aims to enable product engineers to move quickly without thinking about RDBMS database performance/migrations and will enable a fundamental architectural shift at Nextdoor towards a globally available single distributed application.  

At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees.  

The Impact You’ll Make

The Core Platform team focuses on creating a delightful developer experience that empowers engineers to build their features quickly and safely. We build paved roads so that product engineers can focus their efforts on building features that serve our neighbors and drive our business. We create infrastructure that makes the easy things work out of the box and the hard things possible. We build performance and scalability into the platform itself so that the application is safe and fast by default.  

Your responsibilities will include

• Providing technical guidance and technical contribution to shape one of Nextdoor’s most ambitious technical projects
• Scaling an engineering team with a culture of high technical performance and pragmatic decision making.
• Balancing individual technical contributions with leverage through the engineering team you support
• Participation in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises
• Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to the KIND culture that Nextdoor values  

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• 5+ Years of experience in a high performance distributed systems engineering environment, preferably working closely scaling databases and caches to support fast social product growth, and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
• 1+ years of people management, leading technical teams preferably on a consumer application with frequent release cycles. and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
• Strong technical background with the ability to set longer term architectural priorities while maintaining the ability to break those priorities into deliverable milestones
• Ability to drive a strong sense of ownership across the team, build and maintain strong execution cadences, and motivate the team celebrating wins and learning from experiments
• Experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
• Collaborative, thoughtful, and strategic leadership; comfortable with open communication and giving/receiving constructive feedback respectfully
• Empathy and customer obsession for collaborating with other infra and product teams across the company

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create one overall rewards package.

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $220,000 to $285,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. Compensation may also vary by geography.

We also expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date.

Overall, total compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of great health plans. We cover 100% of your personal monthly premium for health, dental, and vision – and provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.

At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.

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