Engineering Manager (Webshare product)

We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.

What’s in store for you:
You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:

- 6PB+ Ceph storage
- 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems
- 300k+ service requests/sec processed
- 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed

In this role, you’ll:

  • Lead people management (hiring, growth, performance, salary reviews).
  • Manage 8-10 senior engineers team delivery according to business priorities, ensuring right team ambition according to capacity.
  • Champion team health: Catch problems early, don’t wait for retros.
  • Ensure team skill composition matches product direction.
  • Own delivery outcomes: PM defines what/why; EM owns how/when/who.
  • Accept work from PM, push back when specs aren’t ready.
  • Report delivery expectations, status and flags to business.
  • Balance features, experiments, tech debt, bug fixes.
  • Remove impediments: cross-team deps, infra blockers, unclear requirements.
  • Drive technical excellence: code review culture, testing, observability.
  • Maintain infrastructure reliability (650B+ req/month, 300K+ req/sec - uptime is existential).
  • Own day-to-day architecture decisions; escalate strategic ones to Head of PD.
  • Navigate tech debt decisions: when to pay down, when to live with it.
  • Your skills & experience:

  • Product sensibility: understands why, not just how.
  • Comfortable with high-autonomy engineering cultures.
  • Technical background.
  • Fluent English (international team).
  • Nice to have:
  • Experience in System Architecture.
  • SaaS / API / developer tools experience.
  • Python ecosystem (Django, async Python) experience.
  • High-throughput distributed systems (billions-scale) experience.
  • Knowledge of proxy, scraping, or data collection industry.
  • Salary & Benefits:

  • Gross salary: 6000 EUR/month - 8000 EUR/gross + quarterly KPI-based performance bonus. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.
  • Growth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.
  • Health & Well-being: Private health insurance, psychotherapy, on-site well-being consultants, 24/7 gym access, and a wellness app.
  • Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation, quarterly team-building budgets, and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.
  • Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, barista coffee, and all the tools you need. See the full list of benefits here: https://career.oxylabs.io/blog/our-work-benefits/.
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