Engineering Manager - Distributed Systems at Yelp (London, UK)

Desired Skills and Experience

Help the team stay happy and productive by removing obstacles and optimizing team processes.
Enjoy providing frequent constructive feedback while coaching and mentoring engineers.
Work with the team to develop and own a product vision that you’ll communicate to the company.
Participate in the hiring process, from scouting potential candidates to interviewing and helping close new hires.
Monitor availability and performance of distributed systems like NoSQL Datastores.
Scale infrastructure to meet demand while keeping an eye on cost-efficiency.
Be willing to roll up your sleeves and debug/tune/code/fix alongside your team.
Drive (and teach) technical incident response.
Previous experience as a technical lead or manager, with the empathy and communication skills to match.
Experience with building, configuration, scaling, and monitoring distributed systems like datastores (e.g., Cassandra), messaging systems (e.g., Kafka), or resource management systems (e.g., Mesos).
You understand how to achieve high availability, fault tolerance, performance, and disaster recovery.
Experience using cloud computing services (AWS, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
Mastery of Linux or Unix.
Command of your favourite modern programming language: Python, Ruby, Java, C++, etc.
Experience with configuration management: Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt.