Software Engineer Manager (Database Observability)

Overview

Software Engineer Manager responsible for leading a team building next-generation Database Observability products.

What you'll do

• Manage a full-stack engineering team (6–8 engineers) across backend, database telemetry, agent engineering, and UI workflows.
• Own end-to-end sprint planning, roadmap execution, system quality, and operational excellence for database ingestion and recommendation pipelines.
• Guide use of AI technologies (agentic AI, MCP, and LLMs) to evolve observability into automated, AI-driven diagnostics and remediation.
• Drive architecture discussions for high-throughput, low-latency ingestion and streaming telemetry (Kafka), and database agent development.
• Partner with Product Management and Design to convert vision into actionable execution plans.
• Hire, mentor, and grow engineers; set expectations and manage performance.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of total software engineering experience.
• 2+ years directly managing engineering teams.
• Deep technical background in backend and distributed systems (Go, Java, Python, or equivalent).
• Foundational understanding of relational and NoSQL database engines and safe performance metric collection under heavy load.
• Proven delivery of complex, multi-quarter initiatives with high quality.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, microservices, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), plus production observability.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.