Software Engineering Manager - Networking

About the position:

Want to build the next-generation of mesh network technology?  Your role is to help lead the future of network technology at Ditto and help guide our team of network software engineers. Help us to expand and improve our core network technologies and develop high performance solutions for mesh lab testing, multi-platform BLE connectivity, robust peer-to-peer WiFi, congestion control & multiplexing techniques, forward error correction, packet framing, and library support for additional radio technologies. Work with a remote team, manage your own time, and tackle interesting problems.

As the Software Engineering Manager, you will:

• Lead and magnify the impact of a team of 4-8 skilled individual contributors, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
• Be an active part of the design of the system architecture
• Collaborate closely with other software teams within Ditto
• Work with product and design to build the roadmap for the team; this will involve talking to engineers, researchers, other teams, customers, and partners
• Estimate the delivery timeline for projects and communicate with upper management and the broader team regarding project execution
• Set team culture by example, expanding Ditto’s culture of Trust, Communication, and Continual Improvement

What you’ll Need:

• 2+ years of experience managing teams of software engineers. This includes people-management responsibilities such as hiring, performance and growth management, and career development
• 2+ years of technical leadership, including driving best practices, project scoping and design, and providing architectural guidance
• A background in network engineering and technical understanding of foundational networking concepts such as TCP/IP networking, congestion control, multiplexing, and packet framing
• A willingness to travel, including internationally, once a quarter for team get togethers
• Strong communication skills, particularly written communication skills. As a fully distributed team, async communication is the norm and the development process often includes written architecture and design documents

Nice to Haves

• Experience managing a remote, globally distributed team
• Strong understanding of networking protocols (TCP, UDP, BGP, etc) and core concepts
• Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or equivalent qualifications
• Experience with mesh networks, BLE, Wifi, and other mobile transports/radios (Windows, iOS, Android, Linux, etc)
• Experience with working on standards alliances or committees in the wireless or broader networking space
• Experience with networking and development across many platforms and operating systems, especially mobile
• Experience with modern advancements in networking such as fountain codes, QUIC protocol, noise encryption framework, etc.
• Experience benchmarking, debugging and optimizing mesh networks
• Experience with external radios or transmission systems including space or underwater environments
• Experience with architecting secure communications with authentication and encryption
• Prior experience leading a team of specifically Rust or network software engineers