Overview

Qualifications

What You’ll Do

We look for someone who can lead a team of diverse, smart and driven engineers distributed across multiple locations. We need leaders who take an active role in shaping the future of Twitter engineering while embodying our core values. A successful engineering manager will

  • Build cohesive, high-functioning teams that thrive in a culture of trust, respect, and inclusion.
  • Balance autonomy with guidance by giving your team the tools, context, confidence, and motivation to make decisions effectively and independently.
  • Work collaboratively across a large engineering organization, both in terms of scale and complexity of the mission.
  • Take responsibility for the team’s short-term and long-term strategy. Define the team’s roadmap, success metrics, and priorities in close collaboration with other engineering teams and multi-functional partners.

Who You Are

  • You have experience leading engineers at all levels and you’re skilled at coaching and guiding your directs through their career development.
  • You have a customer and impact focused mindset in building software.
  • You have a collaborative working style with a strong focus on disciplined execution and results.
  • You like to ground decisions in data and reasoning and solve root causes of problems rather than surface issues.
  • You ensure the team fully understands the goals and objectives of the company and how their work fits into the bigger picture.
  • You seek diverse perspectives to drive bottom-up innovation and create buy-in from all technical stakeholders inside and outside the team.
  • You are a strong believer in servant leadership, and are there first and foremost to bring the best out of other people.
  • You have a track record of leading and managing engineering teams that are highly cohesive, have low attrition, and rate themselves as very healthy.

Requirements

  • BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Have 2 or more years of experience tech-leading or managing a team of 3 or more engineers building complex production grade software systems
  • Expected for Senior Leveling
  • Previously managed multiple teams of 8 or more engineers
  • Minimum of 5+ years in software engineering management (could be less – 3-4 years) if you have several years of experience moving up as an IC into leadership roles or had significant leadership responsibilities.)
  • Experience driving impact through cross-functional leadership.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience with backend platform systems
  • Bonus for experience with cloud technologies, metadata systems
  • Experience in Agile/Lean software development methodologies such as Scrum.
  • You are passionate about technology and can keep up with the latest trends.
  • Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time-zones.

Additional Information

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

San Francisco applicants Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records