Production Engineering at Postmates is a hybrid systems/software group that ensures services run smoothly and has the capacity for future growth. Production Engineers work with all of Postmates’ product and infrastructure teams. As a Production Engineering Manager at Postmates we require a comprehensive understanding of a wide range of technologies as well as growing and developing the skills and talents of the team. It is imperative to have a relentless drive to focus on high-value projects. You will work with and grow a distributed team of engineers working remotely and in our San Francisco headquarters.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Understand technical architectures, capacity plans, tooling needs, automation plans, product launch plans, and other issues
  • Manage engineers working with the engineering teams on our back-end services, front-end services, infrastructure components, and everything in between
  • Partner with product management, program management, site reliability operations, and other related groups
  • Balance the need to keep things running with allocating time to long-term, high-impact projects
  • Work closely with dedicated recruiting staff to expand the team
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline or equivalent experience
  • At least 2 years of direct management experience in a technology company OR extensive experience as a technical lead
  • Previous experience with hiring and performance management
  • Ability to code in at least one language
  • Ability to work in a distributed team
  • Ability to learn new software languages, frameworks and APIs
  • Troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to perform capacity planning for internet service architectures
  • Knowledge of large-scale Internet service architectures even if you haven’t worked on one
  • Excellent communications skills