Tech Lead Manager – Lakebase

Overview

In this Tech Lead Manager role, you guide a small team while staying hands-on, shaping the architecture of Lakebase across reliability, proxy, or storage. You’ll drive high-quality delivery, define technical standards, and mentor engineers, aligning dependencies with partner teams. The opportunity combines technical leadership with people management, enabling you to influence a fast-growing data and AI platform. You will work on scalable distributed systems at a global scale, contributing to a mission-driven Lakebase initiative.

Pay / Benefits

• comprehensive benefits and perks

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of ~5 engineers, owning execution and timely delivery
• Stay hands-on: design, architect, and implement core parts of the stack
• Set and uphold high technical standards through reviews, tests, and engineering excellence
• Mentor engineers with clear feedback and career development
• Coordinate with partner teams to unblock cross-cutting Lakebase projects
• Collaborate with engineering and product leaders to shape a long-term roadmap

Key requirements

• 5+ years of engineering experience with time as tech lead or senior engineer
• Strong hands-on depth in system design and coding for large-scale distributed services
• Experience with testing, monitoring, and SLAs in distributed environments
• People management or tech lead experience
• Ability to align multiple stakeholders and balance short-term vs long-term goals
• BS in Computer Science or related field

• leadership
• stakeholder alignment
• communication
• large-scale distributed systems
• architecture and design
• observability and SLAs

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