This is a Software Engineering Director position in the Product Engineering team at Medallia. Our team’s mission is to develop the industry’s next generation enterprise SaaS cloud platform for Medallia.
The core backend platform consists of: integration, processing and reporting layer for Medallia Experience Cloud. Our reporting layer is an in-memory highly compressed Cube data set which can process analytical/aggregation queries spanning billions of records in seconds concurrently. This data platform powers Medallia core reporting Platform and allows us to scale to thousands of concurrent queries for our customers. The processing layer is an async queuing which hydrates that dataset in near real time and also performs thousands of field calculations for every customer every minute.
We are looking for candidates who share a passion for tackling complexity and building clouds that will last, and scale through multiple orders of magnitude as we continue on the next level of growth for Medallia.
We believe: Every Experience Matters. Talent is Everywhere. All Belong Here
At Medallia, we hire the whole person.
Responsibilities
Be responsible for the core reporting platform and pipeline that powers Medallia Experience Cloud.
Lead the team to design and drive the execution plan for successfully delivering high quality software components and services.
Help the engineering team to architect for next level of scale and execute on the development plans
Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering to effectively align against goals, roadmap, and commitments.
Measure project progress using KPI(s) and Metrics and communicate plans and updates on a frequent basis.
Build a high performing team. Hire the very best and provide opportunities for team members to grow and prosper.
Qualifications
4+ years of experience directly managing people in a front-line role
8+ years experience in a technical role (developer or architect) working on distributed systems, platform infrastructure, or cloud services.
Managers that have levelled up from a technical background are ideal.
Demonstrated experience growing your team from outside your organization
Expertise in Java
Experience managing the software development lifecycle using agile methodologies
Proficiency working within a fast-paced and geographically distributed environment or at mid-stage startup (or both!)
BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or related field preferred
Nice to haves:
Experience in the development of fully automated infrastructure stack provisioning for global deployments.
Created an elastic compute service using modern technology (Docker, Mesos, Aurora).
Developed a distributed resilient storage service powered by Ceph
Built highly available services for high throughput messaging, persistence, and event processing
Implemented tools and frameworks to enable monitoring, logging, alerting, and debugging at scale
Participated in the open source community and have a robust github repository
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