Manager, Release Engineering (Mountain View, CA)

Manager, Release Engineering (Mountain View, CA)

Department: Behaviors, Execution and Foundation

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Mountain View, CA

Reporting To: Angela Tan

Description

We’re SmartThings, one of the leading IoT ecosystems in the world, creating the most effortless way for anyone to create a smart home. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung, our corporate offices are based in Minneapolis and the Bay Area.

More than 270 million people worldwide use SmartThings to control and manage their connected life. SmartThings delivers simple, powerful experiences across Samsung’s leading portfolio of phones, TVs, and appliances, and we offer the most versatile smart home experience as an open platform with a rich partner ecosystem. As a founding member of Matter, we are a leader in the industry to help make smart homes more secure, reliable and seamless to use.

Like the smartphone revolution, smart home technology is transforming the way we interact with the world around us. With SmartThings products, we’re reducing global emissions, improving service industries, and creating a safer, smarter planet. Come be a part of the transformation with us!

About The Team

SmartThings offers an experienced Engineering Manager a unique opportunity to lead our Release Engineering team. We’re seeking a technical engineering manager excited about forming a DevOps practice and being a thought leader in continuous integration and deployment pipelines. The ideal candidate will be excited to reach out to teams, understand their essential needs, and plan accordingly. The ideal candidate will also help share improvements and solicit action on upgrade patches to ensure that our platform is continuously healthy from the operational aspect of the software.

Key Responsibilities

This position is a hybrid role, based onsite 3 days a week at our office in Mountain View, CA.

• Customer Focus:
  • Active solicitation of requirements
  • Curate team roadmap
  • Foster healthy working relationships in distributed teams
  • Balance business needs, internal requests, and team needs
• Business Execution Management:
  • Track progress and maintain a clear perspective on deadlines and roadmaps
  • Communication with stakeholders on roadmap highlights, status, and risks
  • Vendor management of tools used for production as the technical owner
  • Strong organization skills
• Domain Expertise and Leadership:
  • Automation first, find creative solutions to complex problems
  • Build and support domain expertise within the team, find opportunities to run PoCs, and help establish a technical roadmap, enabling the team to become the domain technical leader with operational excellence.
• Team Leadership:
  • Coach, mentor, and develop team members personally and professionally
  • Grow your team by recruiting and retaining strong technical and inclusive contributors
  • Lead end-to-end execution of initiatives and projects with your team and technical staff.
  • Continuously improve team practices and procedures.
  • Encourage and develop an inclusive culture and diverse team
• Continuous learning in automation, continuous integration, and reliable deployment.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Inclusive Hiring Practices

If your skills and experience are close to what we’re looking for, we encourage you to apply. We know that abilities can be developed in many different ways, and some of the most educational paths have twists and turns. Diversity of thought creates the most creative teams, and we’re passionate about adding new perspectives to the conversation at SmartThings. Even if you aren’t certain you meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply!

What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or similar field
• 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, leading a team of 5 or more developers
• 5+ years of experience in cloud software development/cloud operations DevOps
• 2+ years of experience with IaaC (Infrastructure as Code)
• Hands-on experience with managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Strong experience working with CI/CD tooling
• Experience working in a Corporate environment
• Strong organization skills (balancing team capacity with commitments)
• Strong communication skills

Desired Skills

• Cloud software development experience, Java/Kotlin
• K8s operators
• Flexibility of kanban, scrum, waterfall
• Mix experience of startup and enterprise

SmartThings Benefits

• We offer an attractive compensation package with comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health; an HSA with employer contribution; life & disability insurance; FSAs for health and dependent care expenses; a competitive 401k with a 5% employer match, and more.
• All of our employees enjoy unlimited PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave).
• Eligible employees benefit from our education reimbursement program, and all employees enjoy access to learning resources through O’Reilly.
• Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging is embedded into our culture and our work, and everyone has frequent opportunities to join forums and groups and participate in ongoing projects.

Compensation for this role for a candidate based in Mountain View is expected to be between $174,972 and $262,458. Additionally, this role is eligible for a 20% annual target bonus potential, depending on company and individual performance.