Sr. Manager, Software Engineering - Kafka Streams

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering at Realtor.com®

Location: Austin, TX

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and energetic Sr. Software Engineering Manager to lead our Data Ingestion team.  Are you a hands-on tech leader with a passion for big data and driving results?  Then read on!

You’ll lead a dynamic team of software engineers dedicated to enhancing the scalability of our services and infrastructure for real-time data insights.  Initially, you'll tackle scaling ingestion tooling to meet expanding data volumes.  Your ongoing focus will empower your team and stakeholders with self-service capabilities, enabling faster iterations and decision-making processes.  This role involves close collaboration with diverse stakeholders, including data scientists, product analysts, and software engineers from cross-functional teams within the organization.

As we continue to build a modern real-time data platform, you’ll drive decisions and lead an empowered team.  As a key leader in our Data organization, you’ll foster a collaborative and innovative environment, focusing on excellence in both people and products, aligned with our company's values and objectives.  You'll have the opportunity to lead talented engineers, cultivate continuous improvement, and contribute to our engineering initiatives.

What you'll do:

• Lead and Develop:  Lead a team of software engineers, providing clear direction, mentorship, and support to foster their professional growth and development. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with company goals and objectives.
• Drive Technical Excellence:  Champion best practices in software engineering, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions.  Evaluate and implement innovative technologies and methodologies to enhance product performance and resilience.
• Foster Collaboration:  Cultivate a culture of collaboration and innovation within the engineering team and across the organization.  Partner with stakeholders to define work, expected outcomes, priorities, and milestones.
• Strategic Leadership:  Provide strategic insights and technical expertise to drive product roadmap decisions. Collaborate with senior leadership to align engineering initiatives with broader company goals and objectives.
• Promote Accountability:  Establish clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring progress and measuring results.  Celebrate and promote wins, both at the team and individual level, and take ownership of driving results.
• Evangelize Solutions:  Present and evangelize solutions to internal teams and stakeholders, articulating the vision in a way that resonates with everyone and creating milestones to connect vision to work.

How we work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

What you'll bring:

• An experienced engineering servant-leader with a team-first leadership style.
• Experience leading engineering teams that deliver highly available, observable, resilient, scalable, and performant systems.
• Mastery in working with streaming data solutions, large data volumes and related infrastructure.
• Familiar with cloud-based architectures, development, revision control, test, and deployment automation.
• Familiar with multiple data collecting, streaming, and processing technologies.
• Expert knowledge of SQL, data structures, data integrity, and schema design best practices.
• Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript, and one or more of the following languages: Python, Kotlin, Go, Java or comparable Object Oriented language.
• 10+ years experience or related work experience preferred and 3+ years leadership experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field, Master's degree a plus.