Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

What we're looking for

Stytch is the platform for user authentication. We make it simple for developers to build complex authentication flows in a matter of minutes. As the engineering manager for our Infrastructure engineering teams, you'll work on building and monitoring our cloud infrastructure, as well as enabling partner engineering teams to build ambitious authentication products quickly and safely by building the scalable and performant services they run on. You’ll also be directly responsible for ensuring the excellence of our internal development toolkit, upleveling every engineer across the org.

What Excites You

• Solving problems with pragmatic solutions — you know when to make trade offs between complexity and shipping quickly

• Shaping the culture and growing the team through recruiting, mentorship, establishing best practices, and developing and empowering engineers on your team

• Learning new skills and technologies in a fast paced environment — as a small start up, things move quickly

• Partnering with engineers and peers to craft strategy and a roadmap that accomplishes our ambitious company goals

• Fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high performing team culture

What Excites Us

• Experience building systems, both in code and cloud infrastructure, that can support complex products at scale

• 5+ years as a backend engineer, platform engineer or infrastructure engineer

• 4+ years experience managing a team

• Experience with security and compliance

What Success Looks Like

• Development — provide guidance and mentorship to develop the engineers on your team into future engineering leaders

• Ownership — build team processes and culture to drive execution

• Leadership — lead by example and set direction and vision for the engineering organization

Our Tech Stack

• Go for back end services

• Node and Typescript for our web services

• React and Next.js on the front end

• Swift for our iOS SDK and Kotlin for the Android SDK

• We run on AWS with Kubernetes for containerization

• We utilize Github Actions, Flux, ArgoCD for our CI/CD

• gRPC and protobufs for internal service communication

Expected base salary $230,000 - $280,000. The anticipated base salary range is not inclusive of full benefits including equity, health care insurance, time off, paid parental leave, etc. This base salary is accurate based on information at the time of posting. Actual compensation for hired candidates will be determined using a number of factors including experience, skills, and qualifications.

We're looking to hire a GREAT team and that means hiring people who are highly empathetic, ambitious, and excited about building the future of user authentication. You should feel empowered to apply for this role even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description (our job descriptions are directional and not perfect recipes for exactly what we need). 

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workspace where everyone (regardless of age, education, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or any personal characteristics) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!

Learn more about our team and culture here!