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TideEngineering Manager, Core Infrastructure
Tide is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Core Infrastructure division. Tide builds financial and administrative software solutions to help small and medium-sized enterprises save money…
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Tide is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Core Infrastructure division. Tide builds financial and administrative software solutions to help small and medium-sized enterprises save money and time. The Core Infrastructure group manages an EKS-based containerized cloud environment that serves as the backbone for product engineering teams, allowing them to construct member offerings without directly handling cloud provisioning. This role suits an experienced technical leader who remains hands-on while empowering…
Job Description
Tide is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Core Infrastructure division. Tide builds financial and administrative software solutions to help small and medium-sized enterprises save money and time. The Core Infrastructure group manages an EKS-based containerized cloud environment that serves as the backbone for product engineering teams, allowing them to construct member offerings without directly handling cloud provisioning.
This role suits an experienced technical leader who remains hands-on while empowering team members and delegating effectively. The incoming manager will guide a team of engineers, build architectural roadmaps, ensure security and availability standards, reduce deployment friction for product teams, and manage resource costs. The tech stack includes AWS EKS, Terraform, Terragrunt, ArgoCD, Helm, Crossplane, GitHub Actions, and Coralogix, alongside backend technologies like Java, Python, and Go.
The position includes a monthly gross salary ranging from 7,133€ to 10,033€, determined by candidate background and proficiency. Tide operates with a flexible work model combining in-person and remote activities across various global hubs, encouraging collaborative team interactions.
Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and hire a team of engineers while establishing clear performance objectives
- Design architectural roadmaps covering infrastructure upgrades, capacity planning, and database scalability
- Maintain platform availability and security compliance standards
- Streamline processes to shorten the time required for product teams to deploy and operate services
- Assist product engineering groups in optimizing financial costs for running workloads
- Establish cross-team relationships and communicate context effectively across departments
- Balance technical choices with broader company and team objectives
- Monitor team productivity using metrics including DORA and SPACE
Requirements
- More than 10 years of background in distributed computing
- At least 3 years in engineering leadership capacities
- Demonstrated knowledge of AWS or GCP within regulated, secure environments
- Practical experience running Kubernetes in production utilizing GitOps methods, with ArgoCD preferred
- Familiarity with leveraging AI tools such as Claude and assisting others in using them productively
- Strong written and verbal communication abilities
- Stakeholder management proficiency across multiple teams
Qualifications
- A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Background in platform engineering focused on abstracting Kubernetes complexity into an internal product
- Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes operators
Core Skills
Benefits
- Gross monthly salary between 7,133€ and 10,033€ depending on experience
- Private health insurance
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off designated for volunteering or learning and development
- Parental leave days
- Family-friendly leave
- Personal learning and development budget of 500 EUR annually
- Access to the Plumm mental wellbeing platform
- Work-from-home equipment allowance
- Sabbatical leave
- Share options
- Team events
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What is the salary for the Engineering Manager role at Tide?
The gross monthly salary ranges between 7,133€ and 10,033€, depending on individual skills and experience.
What work model does Tide follow?
Tide champions a flexible workplace model that supports both remote work and in-person collaboration at company offices.
What experience is required for this position?
Candidates must have over 10 years of experience in distributed computing, at least 3 years in engineering leadership, and practical knowledge of AWS or GCP in a regulated environment.
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