Manager, Engineering - Waypoint

About Waypoint…

HCP Waypoint is designed to enable platform teams to define golden patterns and workflows for developers to enable management of applications at scale. Waypoint and HCP Terraform work collaboratively to let developers quickly set up their apps' infrastructure with just a button press. The goal of Waypoint is to help platform teams provide a clear and consistent developer experience for their development teams while providing a central catalog of applications, day-2+ operations, and their associated metadata. HCP Waypoint is a rapidly evolving product with lofty aspirations.

About the Team…

The Waypoint engineering team is responsible for building HCP Waypoint on top of the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) integrating closely with HCP Terraform. We are a mix of backend and frontend engineers working alongside design and product management in a larger product line alongside Terraform, Vagrant, and Packer. We support a UI, CLI, Terraform Provider, and API and our tech stack is a mix of Go and Ember. We are a growing, distributed and remote team that values cross-functional collaboration.

About the role… 

We announced the GA of HCP Waypoint in October 2024 of last year and anticipate the team to grow alongside our ambitious vision and roadmap. We are adding an additional engineering manager to the team to help support the overall growth of our team including: supporting engineers in their career growth, guiding the team through successful delivery of engineering initiatives, and fostering a collaborative culture and growth mindset as our team transitions from a small to medium size team.

In addition to managing individual contributors, engineering managers collaborate closely with product managers, design partners, and engineering leads to contribute to the product roadmap and strategy and drive the team in delivering impactful features and enhancements to enable platform and application developers who use HCP Waypoint and HCP Terraform.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• Support the career growth and morale of a team of skilled software engineers at varying skill levels, through setting goals, mentoring, and providing feedback
• Actively participate in hiring and growing the team and work with engineering leadership to shape the Waypoint team
• Collaborate with product and design leaders to prioritize and scope work, contribute to strategy, vision, and roadmap discussions, and play an active role in quarterly planning and estimation. Ensure alignment between engineering and product, balancing engineering effort with business goals
• Continuously evaluate and improve processes, tools, and workflows to increase efficiency, collaboration, and output
• Lean on the technical background to guide design and architecture conversations between engineers to a clear outcome

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• 2 years of software engineering people management experience
• 5 years engineering experience
• Proven experience leading software engineering teams to deliver high-quality products; bonus point for experience managing a remote distributed team. Comfortable making tough decisions and advocating for your team while balancing organizational priorities
• Strong communication skills for working across a large organization and building relationships with diverse peers and leadership in a remote setting
• A successful track record of facilitating the growth and learning of others
• Enough technical knowledge to take in highly complex, deeply technical concepts and relay them to stakeholders in a comprehensible way
• Experience breaking down large projects into small milestones and overseeing project delivery
• Experience navigating and managing projects spanning multiple codebases and organizations with separate ownership
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to work effectively across teams and stakeholders to drive projects forward
• Passionate about fostering a positive team culture and driving innovation while maintaining a strong focus on operational reliability

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• A Bachelor or higher degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related fields
• Experience with internal developer platform/portals, developer tooling, or CI/CD systems to better understand the needs of our users is highly preferred
• Experience with Waypoint, Terraform, or other HashiCorp products
• Experience working with large codebases for distributed systems
• Experience improving the user experience of a complex system
• Experience working on an enterprise SAAS or cloud platform
• Eastern/Central Time Zone location is preferred, but not required, to support team members across the US and Europe