Team Lead, Control

WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the AI era. The WEKA® Data Platform sets the standard for AI infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native software solution that can be deployed anywhere. It transforms legacy data silos into data pipelines that make GPUs, AI, and other performance-intensive workloads run faster, work more efficiently, and consume less energy. WEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company on a hyper-growth trajectory. We’ve raised $375M in capital with dozens of world-class venture capital and strategic investors. We help the world’s most innovative enterprises and research organizations, including 12 Fortune 50, reach discoveries, insights, and outcomes faster and more sustainably. We’re passionate about helping our customers overcome complex data challenges to accelerate their innovation and help grow their businesses. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey if you share our passion.

As a Team Lead, You’ll

As Team Lead in the Control Group, you’ll need to combine team leadership, team building, technological problem solving, direct and matrix management, risk management, and career development of direct response to empower our most valuable asset – our engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Grow the teams and manage the career development of team members.
• Be a direct address for everything related to team activities and members.
• Own knowledge domains within the product's control plane
• Lead the design and architecture of critical features in the product
• Take initiatives within the group to improve our products, you will be very encouraged to invent new ideas
• Work closely with product management to prioritize work items and understand their business value
• Assume nothing - constantly revisit how we work and whether our productivity is perfectly tuned.
• Promote and participate in beautiful designs, efficient code, and collaborative code reviews.
• Own and promote quality in every part of the team’s deliveries and activities.
• Be a manager - recruit, nurture and manage the retention of team members.
• Be a mentor - provide ongoing feedback, both good and constructive
• Be a leader - demonstrate a can-do attitude, and promote company goals.
  
  

• 3+ years of experience with managing software development teams
• 5+ years of experience in C/C++ development
• Experience with development over Linux, including low-level User-Mode OS knowledge.
• Experience with Containers
• A record of Excellence in previous roles
  
  

• Experience in the storage industry, databases, or other infrastructure.
• Experience with Control plane of other appliances
• Experience working with AWS or other public clouds.
• Experience working on complex and large-scale and/or distributed systems, databases, or others.
• Familiarity with storage concepts (SMB, NFS, S3, SSD, NVMe, Linux filesystems).
• Familiarity with clustered environment products and design and container
• Experience with leading a development Group (2nd level management), and remote employees oversees