At Kubermatic, we believe that businesses should focus on their core purpose: writing groundbreaking applications, not operations. In line with our commitment to make Kubernetes as easy as possible, we help IT teams worldwide to fully automate their Kubernetes and cloud-native operations across multi-cloud, edge, and on-prem. 

As one of the top 5 corporate contributors to the Kubernetes Project, we develop enterprise-grade software solutions and provide professional services and support to safely navigate and accelerate your cloud-native transformation. Our open-source Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform makes it easy to operate thousands of Kubernetes clusters on any infrastructure.

If you are looking for a neatly structured environment, we are just not a good match. But if you are thrilled by the prospect of joining a technology start-up with a lot of room for your own ideas and personal growth, we definitely should at least have a chat.

Managers in Engineering at Kubermatic see their team as their product. While they are technically credible and know of what engineers work on, their time is spent safeguarding their team's health, hiring a world-class team, and putting them in the best position to succeed. They own the delivery of product commitments and are always looking to improve productivity. They must also coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals. Engineering Leadership at Kubermatic is cross-discipline. As a Head of Development you will currently manage two teams with both frontend and backend engineers.

What You'll Do

• Hire and build a globally-distributed, happy, and successful team within a sustainable and scalable organisational structure
• Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team and the product stage(s)
• Make sure the handbook is used and maintained in a transparent way
• Implement technical and process improvements that are causal to most critical needs
• Provide your team with management mentorship
• Drive quarterly KPIs around company goals
• Give regular and clear feedback around the individual's performance
• Define the agile project management process
• Be accountable for product quality, security, and performance
• Work across departments within engineering
• Work closely with Product Management to provide a consistent/successful interface between Engineering Development and Product Management
• Support constantly changing priorities between product features, availability, performance, security and reliability
• Support process for incident management including quality control of this

What You'll Bring

• Technical credibility: Past experience as a product engineer and leading teams thereof
• Management credibility: Significant past experience as an engineering manager
• Collaborate effectively with others and demonstrate successful partnership with stakeholders
• Build teams that excel through our values
• Ability to understand, communicate and improve the quality of multiple teams
• Ability to successful manage at a remote-only company

What you'll get in return

• The unique opportunity to join a growing startup and grow and learn with us 
• A lot of room for your ideas and initiatives and the chance to quickly assume responsibility
• Agile development practices, cutting edge technologies (Kubernetes, Go and Prometheus) and an up-to-date stack  
• Full support with getting the training and certification you need to do a good job (CKA, Linux Foundation Certification...) and conference opportunities
• As a remote-first company, we offer flexible working hours and home office as default, not on request 
• A dynamic and still laid-back team (yes, you can combine that) with flat hierarchies, distributed over more than 13 countries  
• Regular company events like hackathons, summer parties, afterworks, barbecues….

Anything else?

• We love community events - so you will definitely enjoy our meetups and our community conferences ContainerDays and GoDays
• As a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, we can offer certified courses and first-class information about what's coming up next in the Kubernetes ecosystem. And if you want to contribute, you are welcome to engage at CNCF projects or special interest groups

Please note that we only accept applications with a pdf CV!