Engineering Manager - Platform and Infrastructure

About the Role

As the Manager of Platform and Infrastructure in APAC, you will lead key parts of the Platform and Infrastructure roadmap. Our mission in Platform & Infrastructure (PI) is to enable the rest of engineering by providing an easy-to-use and self-service cloud platform upon which all Abnormal applications are built. You will report to our Director of Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Engineering and collaborate with our world-class team.

Consider applying to this role if you’re a passionate, first-principles, engineering leader with experience leading production engineering teams that build scalable distributed systems or cloud platforms - all in the name of making the world a safer place. 

You should DEFINITELY apply if: 

• You want what you (and your team) do to have a massive & positive impact on the people who use what you create.
• You want to hire, build and lead a team of highly-capable & world-class individuals who are dedicated to achieving our mission.
• You think a culture of listening to customers empowers the next generation of successes

Enterprises of all sizes trust Abnormal Security’s cloud products to stop cybercrime. To effectively realize our mission, Abnormal must launch a suite of cyber-security products built on top of a common platform that all run in datacenters around the world. 

What you will do 

• Leadership & Execution: As an early member of the PI APAC organization, you’ll hire and lead two teams in the Observability and Data Platform space.
• Own  and deliver the roadmap: Own the execution success of the quarterly roadmap for multiple across key parts of the Observability and Data Platform roadmap; engage continuously with the Tech Leads to define roadmap items according to the team’s charter and company priorities.  Adjust and re-evaluate team priorities as required. Dive deeper into technical areas and provide direction as required.
• Uplevel Execution: Drive processes to enable the team to deliver on projects that are set by TLs as part of the technical roadmap.
• Manage the quarterly roadmap updates, project time estimates, weekly sprint planning, day-to-day standups
• Identify risks on project delivery (technical, operational, dependency risks) and escalate to appropriate technical leads
• Able to assess progress in a metrics-oriented manner
• Build a world class team: Hire, mentor and grow engineers on the team to deliver a world class platform. 
• You will build on the existing capabilities of the team through hiring and uplevel your team through consistent coaching at regular intervals. 

Must Haves 

• 7+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer building backend systems and/or platforms. 3+ years of managing backend or platform teams.
• Experience delivering quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly and deal with ambiguity.
• Customer obsessed: Working with our internal engineers to determine the Observability and Data Platform roadmap.
• Recruiting magnet - you are able to set up a hiring plan, attract senior engineers, outline the vision of the team and build out a large team.High standards - you set high standards and expectations for project execution for yourself and the whole team.(Nice-to-have)
• Experience building platform or infrastructure teams to enable engineers to operate their applications at scale .