Lead complex tunneling projects as a Senior Tunnel Manager, driving technical excellence, client engagement, and team development within a globally recognized infrastructure consulting firm.
Engineering Manager, Online Storage - SF
📜 Description
- Lead and grow the Online Storage team, focusing on coaching and performance.
- Drive the multi-cell scalability program in partnership with Core Infra.
- Own reliability and disaster recovery for core storage systems.
- Set technical direction for the unified search platform and permissions-system consolidation.
- Operate as an internal platform partner to balance product-team needs with platform stability.
- Ensure operational excellence through on-call health and incident response.
🛠️ Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience.
- 2+ years of experience managing teams of 6 or more engineers.
- Hands-on experience building or operating production data infrastructure at scale: relational databases, caching, distributed storage, or search.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Experience in SaaS or FinTech industry.
- Experience bootstrapping and landing large scale 0->1 projects.
- Experience working at a small company with diverse responsibilities.
- Track record of scaling a team through hiring.
✨ Benefits
- 📈 Start-up equity
- 🦷 100% health, vision & dental coverage options
- 🍽️ Catered breakfast, lunch, & dinner
- 🌴 Flexible PTO
- 🚍 Monthly commuter benefit
- 💻 Home office stipend
- 🛜 Phone/internet reimbursement
- 🏠 Hybrid model + 5 flexible remote days per quarter
- 🍼 Paid parental leave
- 🐣 Fertility benefits
Full job description
About Zip
Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement — built for humans and agents working together. By orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers with the help of AI agents, companies can secure the resources they need to innovate faster than ever before.
The world’s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more. Together they’ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend. Zip’s team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA.
Backed by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Zip has raised $371 million, most recently at a $2.2 billion valuation and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Best in Business, and LinkedIn Top Startups.
Your Role
We're seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineering Manager to lead our Online Storage team. The Online Storage team is a foundational infrastructure team within Zip's Engineering organization. We own and operate the core storage, search, and permissions infrastructure that powers everything Zip's product teams build — spanning relational databases (Aurora RDS), caching layers (Elasticache, MemoryDB), DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch, and the permissions framework that ensures every user sees exactly the data they're authorized to see.
You Will
Lead and grow the Online Storage team (doubling in 6 months): coaching, performance, hiring.
Drive the multi-cell scalability program (data isolation, regional redistribution, cell provisioning) partnering closely with Core Infra.
Own reliability and disaster recovery for all core storage systems (Aurora, Elasticache/MemoryDB, DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch) to defined RPO/RTO targets.
Set technical direction for the unified search platform and the permissions-system consolidation.
Operate as an internal platform partner: triage product-team needs, set guardrails, balance their velocity against platform stability.
Own operational excellence: on-call health, incident response, observability for the data layer.
Qualifications
6+ years of software engineering experience.
2+ years of experience managing teams of 6 or more engineers.
Hands-on experience building or operating production data infrastructure at scale: relational databases, caching, distributed storage, or search.
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field.
Nice to have
Experience in SaaS or FinTech industry.
Experience bootstrapping and landing large scale 0->1 projects.
Experience working at a small company with diverse responsibilities.
Track record of scaling a team through hiring.
The salary range for this role is $270,000 - $320,000. The salary for this position is determined based on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant experience, education, or particular skills and expertise.
Perks & Benefits
At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.
📈 Start-up equity
🦷 100% health, vision & dental coverage options
🍽️ Catered breakfast, lunch, & dinner
🌴 Flexible PTO
🏋️♀️ ClassPass membership
🚍 Monthly commuter benefit
🚠 Team building events & happy hours
💻 Home office stipend
🛜 Phone/internet reimbursement
🏠 Hybrid model + 5 flexible remote days per quarter
🍼 Paid parental leave
🐣 Fertility benefits
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
🤖 Unlimited AI token usage
We're looking to hire Zipsters and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!
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