ditto - Engineering Manager, Data Sync
Requirements
• ensure we’re building in the right direction. Your years of delivering database or adjacent • products mean you think about performance, quality gates, and rollout strategies for critical • infrastructure. • 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 • 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, escalate early when things slip, and • make trade-off calls between feature work, performance investment, and tech debt—with • 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 • 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. • Management Experience: 3+ years managing software engineering teams, including • 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. • The technical landscape here is genuinely fascinating—concepts like delta-state CRDTs, • causal consistency without coordination, and the challenges described in Kleppmann’s • “CRDTs: The Hard Parts”—and we want a manager who finds this intellectually exciting • even if they aren’t implementing it themselves. • 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 • 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
Responsibilities
• Database domain experience: 5+ years of technical leadership experience, with at • least some of that experience in database, storage, or data infrastructure engineering • Operational excellence: Proven track record of shipping infrastructure or database • products on a predictable cadence, with strong instincts around prioritization and scope • 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.
Benefits
• 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. • At Ditto, we know game-changers don’t always come wrapped in a “perfect” resume. Years of experience? Every single bullet point checked? Meh. That’s not what drives us. • What does matter? • Adaptability. • And a genuine spark for what we’re building. • So if you’re fired up about our mission but not sure you tick every box - hit that apply button anyway. Use your application to show us how you’ll make an impact here. • We’re always on the lookout for exceptional humans who want to grow, stretch, and build something meaningful with us.
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