Engineering Manager, Data Sync

As an Engineering Manager on the Data Sync Team, you will: Lead, Mentor, and Grow: Guide and grow a combined team of 8–12 engineers across the three workstreams (data sync, query engine, and embedded database performance), giving them clarity on priorities and creating the conditions for them to do their best work. Ship with Velocity: Own delivery across all three workstreams. Break large technical programs into milestones, hold teams accountable, escape early when things slip, and make trade‑off calls between feature work, performance investment, and tech debt—without minimal top‑down direction. Hire Exceptional Engineers: Build and maintain a strong hiring pipeline in a competitive market. Close senior candidates with a compelling pitch and continuously raise our bar. Partner with Senior ICs: Work closely with senior engineers who are deep technical experts. Provide influence, shield them from organizational friction, and know when to defer versus when to guide more hands‑on. Drive Roadmap and Prioritization: Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to shape the team’s roadmap and ensure we’re delivering maximum customer value. Represent the Team: Communicate the team’s work to leadership, customers, and cross‑functional partners. Write status updates that convey signal. Translate between customer pain and engineering investment. Foster Culture: Cultivate a culture of trust, collaboration, and continual improvement aligned with Ditto’s values, operating effectively in our remote environment. What you’ll need: Management Experience: 3+ years managing software engineering teams, including responsibilities like hiring, performance management, and career development. Database domain experience: 5+ years of technical leadership experience, with at least some of that experience in database, storage, or data infrastructure engineering organizations. Operational excellence: Proven track record of shipping infrastructure or database products on a predictable cadence, with strong instincts around prioritization and scope management. Distributed systems literacy: Sufficient familiarity with consistency models, conflict resolution, replication topologies, and convergence to be a credible partner to senior engineers—even if you’re not designing the protocols yourself. A bar‑raising ability: Demonstrated ability to hire the best, and grow high‑performing teams where database and distributed systems engineers are hard to find. Product sense: Customer orientation for an infrastructure product. Ability to navigate roadmap trade‑offs driven by deals and prioritization calls that require understanding what customers actually need versus what they ask for. Nice to Haves: Cloud Experience: Experience with AWS (preferred), GCP or Azure, and experience with k8s in production environments. Familiarity with CRDTs, offline‑first architectures, sync algorithms, or local‑first software. Background in Rust, C++, or systems‑level programming. Managers don’t write production code here, but someone who’s been in the systems world will ramp faster on codebase‑level conversations and have better intuitions about performance trade‑offs. Exposure to query engines or query language development. Even indirect experience—having managed an adjacent team, worked on a product with a custom query layer, or evaluated query performance at scale—gives useful context for the DQL workstream. P2P or mesh networking familiarity. Ditto’s peer‑to‑peer sync over BLE, Wi‑Fi Direct, and LAN is our biggest technical differentiator. Helpful context but not something the manager needs to have shipped before. The Benefits of Building with Us We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity. We believe everyone on the team should have a stake in what we’re building. Benefits vary by region to make sure you’re covered in the ways that matter most. In the US, that includes health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, plus a 401(k) and flexible spending accounts. Regardless of where you live, everyone at Ditto can utilize flexible time off. And while we work remotely, our Atlanta and San Francisco offices are open if you ever want a place to work or meet up with teammates. Equal Opportunity Employer Ditto is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Ditto is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let us know. #J-18808-Ljbffr Ditto