[Remote] Engineering Manager, Database Platform at Ditto

Candidates must have 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development. A minimum of 5 years of technical leadership experience in platform and database technologies, distributed systems, and similar domains is required. Deep knowledge of high-performance storage engines, indexing strategies, and replication mechanisms is essential, along with proven experience delivering platform or infrastructure products and effectively benchmarking, debugging, and optimizing distributed systems. The role also requires demonstrated ability to manage remote, globally distributed teams with strong asynchronous communication skills and exceptional written and verbal communication. Candidates should also possess a high level of self-direction, autonomy, and responsibility. Knowledge of Kafka, Kubernetes, and experience managing cloud database applications are considered advantageous.