at Sprout Social, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description
Sprout Social is looking to hire an Engineering Manager to support our Infrastructure Security team.
Why join Sprout's Engineering team?
The Sprout Engineering team is a place to sharpen your craft and solve hard problems with the smartest people in the industry. You'll get to work on a "tech-giant" scale, steering our engineering team to make an impact on our company and our customers. As leader of our Infrastructure Security team, you will not only influence the architecture, design, and roadmap of Sprout's cloud-based infrastructure, but also inform how we build secure experiences for the future. Join other empathetic leaders on our Engineering Leadership team who help each other grow and learn while we support and guide our teams to deliver world-class products.
What you'll do
Build a high functioning, well-motivated engineering team and steer them to iteratively deliver quality results.
Leverage your experience in building and maintaining secure, compliant, and modernized cloud infrastructure deployments to secure the next generation of Sprout experiences.
Lead the team through complicated product and technical road maps, and partner with cross-functional and engineering leaders to align on the strategy for your team and support its execution.
Grow your team of SREs with effective feedback, coaching, and career development.
Work directly alongside the team by providing code reviews, upholding development standards, and taking responsibility for design and architecture decisions.
What you'll bring
We're looking for a collaborative, pragmatic, highly motivating engineering leader to help our teams succeed. If you can confidently lead a team to solve hard problems, and push them to learn from and teach each other, we'd love to talk with you!
The minimum qualifications for this role include:
5+ years of experience developing and supporting infrastructure in a production environment
1+ years of experience managing and leading infrastructure teams
Preferred qualifications for this role include:
Experience building and securing infrastructure in a cloud environment such as AWS
Experience in driving security initiatives and frameworks in the cloud
How you'll grow
Within 1 month, you'll plant your roots, including:
Complete Sprout Social's new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members. You'll gain a broader understanding of our products and how your role fits into the organization.
Make a plan with your manager to set initial priorities, align on expectations for your role, plant goalposts for your career, and learn the team's current Mission, Goals, and Objectives along with future product roadmaps.
Begin to understand the capabilities and limitations of our platform, web, and mobile technologies, and how our infrastructure supports them.
Start to build relationships with the team.
Start to learn the capabilities and limitations of the social network APIs we integrate with.
Learn Sprout's management practices and tools.
Start 1:1s with everyone on the team and continue building relationships.
Provide regular technical guidance and feedback through code reviews.
Within 3 months, you'll start hitting your stride by:
Participate in architectural discussions and decisions, asking the right questions to push your team to successful outcomes.
Analyze trends with bugs and help the team identify where to best focus.
Help the team shape the technical roadmap for long term success.
Assume management of the engineers on your team, Identify career growth opportunities and work with them on goals.
Help the team improve processes and team rituals.
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Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Affirmative Action Employer.  We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at accommodations@sproutsocial.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster  (2) Sprout Social's Affirmative Action Statement (3) Pay Transparency Statement.
