Engineering Manager

About The Job

Odigos is looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our growing R&D organization, including our Full Stack, Backend, and eBPF teams. In this critical leadership position, you will shape our engineering culture, drive technical excellence, and scale the team to meet the company's aggressive growth goals. You’ll work closely with the leadership team, Product, and Go-to-Market functions to deliver cutting-edge observability solutions that disrupt the monitoring and APM markets.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing, venture-backed company at a formative stage, make a huge impact, and work with some of the best engineers in the industry.

About Us

Odigos leverages eBPF technology to create an open-source solution that can automatically generate distributed traces for any application without any engineering work. Developers are struggling with extracting and delivering high-quality monitoring data. Currently, building a pipeline is a manual process that takes months to implement, is an error-prone process that requires tons of code changes across multiple R&D teams, and demands collaboration.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering organization across Full Stack, Backend, and eBPF teams.
• Own delivery: Set goals, define timelines, and ensure the R&D organization consistently meets product milestones.
• Scale the team: Recruit, develop, and retain world-class engineering talent.
• Drive technical excellence: Ensure high standards for architecture, code quality, testing, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Product Management, Customer Success, and Sales to align engineering priorities with company goals.
• Own systems architecture decisions: Guide the design of scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems.
• Champion open-source contributions: Maintain and grow Odigos’ reputation as a leader in the open observability ecosystem.
• Promote innovation: Encourage technical exploration and ensure we continue to leverage the latest technologies (Go, Kubernetes, eBPF, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
• Hands-on guidance: Roll up your sleeves when needed to support the teams with deep technical knowledge.
  
  

• 7+ years of experience in engineering roles, including 3+ years in engineering management.
• Proven success leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams (backend, full stack, and low-level systems).
• Strong hands-on expertise in one or more of the following: Go, Kubernetes, eBPF, distributed systems, cloud-native applications.
• Deep understanding of SaaS architectures, DevOps best practices, and scalable microservices environments.
• Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.
  
  

• Experience with observability, APM, or monitoring tools.
• Contributions to open-source projects, ideally related to OpenTelemetry, eBPF, or Kubernetes.
• Hands-on familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience scaling engineering teams from early-stage through growth-stage.