Engineering Manager, Application Development

Gremlin's mission is to make the Internet more reliable. We're leading the way in the exciting, growing practice of Chaos Engineering, for enterprises like Target, Twilio and JP Morgan Chase that are building complex, distributed SaaS applications whose success depends on uptime. The Gremlin platform uncovers risks and weaknesses that aren't addressed by traditional DevOps and IT operations processes and best practices. If paving a new path forward at the leading edge of technology sounds exciting to you, we should talk.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow Gremlin's engineering teams
• Execute against the team's customer focused, high impact product roadmap
• Be a key stakeholder in decisions both technical and non-technical with an emphasis on balancing immediate delivery versus long term sustainability
• Guide the growth of our engineering culture and processes as the organization scales
• Mentor and provide opportunities for career growth for engineers
• Hire top engineering talent

Key Skills and Attributes

• 4+ Years of experience managing Application development teams
• Experience in customer facing product development and cloud based infrastructure is strongly preferred
• SRE, operational, and/or chaos engineering experience
• Excellent project management skills to help teams deliver on time
• Strong people management skills to recruit, manage, and develop talent
• Ability and strong interest in fostering an open and inclusive engineering culture
• Experience in agile/lean software engineering practices
• Experience managing distributed teams
• If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box-we're looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

About Gremlin

Employees at Gremlin have the unique chance to be at the forefront of a new technology practice, Chaos Engineering, just as the industry is beginning to adopt it. Our team is growing and you have an opportunity to join us as we transform how companies like Target, Twilio, National Bank of Australia, and many more build reliable software.

• "Gartner anticipates that 40% of organizations will implement chaos engineering practices as part of DevOps initiatives by 2023, reducing unplanned downtime by 20%."
• Source: https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/the-io-leaders-guide-to-chaos-engineering/

Chaos Engineering helps engineers test large computer systems to discover system problems before those problems cause outages. This is a foundational approach for every company that provides mission-critical, always-online services. Gremlin provides a platform that makes the practice much faster to implement and easier to use for both large and small enterprise customers.

Our founders, Kolton Andrus and Matthew Fornaciari, lived and breathed incidents, on-call, and Chaos Engineering at Amazon and Netflix. As "Call Leaders" they were responsible for guiding teams through analyzing and resolving global outages. After a decade of developing and advocating Chaos Engineering internally, in 2016 they decided to make what they had learned available to a wider set of enterprise companies and launched Gremlin.

Since then, Gremlin has built an incredible team of industry veterans and people eager to learn from one another while pushing the entire industry forward to new heights. We're backed by top-tier investors Index Ventures, Amplify Partners, and Redpoint Ventures. Our customers love us, and we're thrilled to be a partner in their success.

At Gremlin, we value:

• OUR CUSTOMERS - We won't be a company if our customers aren't thrilled. We live and die by our customers. Our customers come first.
• ACTION - We favor small experiments to gather data rather than over-analyzing a situation. Getting stuff done always beats talking about getting stuff done.
• CONTEXT, NOT CONTROL - We hire autonomous adults with good judgement. We provide them with the context to make smart decisions. We don't micromanage.
• BEING VOCALLY SELF-CRITICAL - We all make mistakes. We all have ways in which we can improve. We own that upfront, and honestly discuss ways in which we've personally made mistakes and can improve. Then, we encourage and help one another succeed at doing so.
• DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION - We are at our best when we encourage and include the thoughts and voices of people from many diverse backgrounds into our strategy and execution. We recognize that systemic racism and gender bias are real and that we aren't perfect. We actively work to encourage the difficult conversations, to listen, and to change as we discover our blind spots so that Gremlin is a company all of us feel proud to be a part of.
• FRUGALITY - We are working to build a profitable company and create a new practice in the industry. We spend money on the right things, like making sure employees have the tools they need to be successful and the company has what it needs; we simply choose not to waste what we have and not to buy what we don't actually need.
• You are welcome at Gremlin for who you are. The more voices and ideas we have represented in our business, the more we will all flourish, contribute, and build a more reliable internet. Gremlin is a place where everyone can grow and is encouraged. However you identify and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this sounds like a role that would make you excited to come into work everyday. It's in our differences that we will find the power to keep building a more reliable internet by building and designing tools used by the best companies in the world.
• We can't wait to meet you!

Learn more about how Gremlin is defining the practice of Chaos Engineering:

• Engineering for Chaos: Preparing for Disaster | Kolton Andrus | TEDxAsburyPark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BasOy54QGKo
• https://www.gremlin.com/chaos-engineering/
• https://www.gremlin.com/community/tutorials/chaos-engineering-the-history-principles-and-practice/