You care about people. You want the engineers around you to grow, you give feedback that's both direct and kind, and you measure your own success through your team's
Technical depth. 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, ideally in systems software: host agents, telemetry collectors, daemons, or other performance-sensitive software (Go, Rust, or C++ environments), and hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes and helm-based deployment. This role stays close to the technical work
Experience managing engineers. 2+ years managing software engineers directly. This team has an active roadmap and a fixed deadline, so we're looking for someone who has run a team through delivery before
Experience coaching senior and staff-level engineers, and comfort partnering with a strong tech lead rather than competing with them
A track record of shipping. You've delivered multi-phase projects against fixed deadlines, and you make honest calls early when a plan is at risk
Strong communication and judgment. You can align people across functions, explain tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners alike, and give your team clarity about what matters and why
Experience building or operating host-level agents at fleet scale: safe rollouts and canarying, version management, self-update, crash recovery, and keeping resource overhead low on customer machines
Experience with hardware platform bring-up or new product introduction, validating software readiness on new GPU or server platforms
Familiarity with agent internals: collection scheduling, buffering and backpressure, local spooling, and graceful behavior when the control plane or network is unavailable
Data plane experience in a cloud provider or similar environment: hypervisors and virtualization, host networking, storage services, or other software in the customer serving path
Observability domain experience: OpenTelemetry, metrics and log pipelines, time series storage
Experience operating software in GPU or accelerated computing environments
Familiarity with kernel-level telemetry (eBPF, perf, tracing)
Experience managing or scaling a team through growth