Manager, Engineering

Why should you consider joining Auvik?

• You want to work at a company that is building impactful, relevant technology. Auvik’s network management software helps IT teams by automating time-consuming tasks, streamlining operations, and mitigating risk. It’s more important than ever to be able to remotely monitor and manage network infrastructure, and with Auvik, IT professionals have that essential visibility and control.

• You want to work with a leadership team who are transparent and trustworthy. Our senior leaders have a vision for Auvik. They are experienced, knowledgeable, approachable, and consistently working hard to drive success, both for the company and the team of people who make it happen.

• You want to work with a product customers love. People rave about what we’ve built. Our customers are smart, aspirational, and highly technical. It pays to get the details right.

• You want regular opportunities for learning and growth. With ongoing feedback from leadership, you’ll find that Auvik encourages you to be your very best. Our onboarding process is thorough and informative because we want to make sure you’re prepared to have a great work experience. We also have programs designed to help you take the next steps you want for your career.

• You want the flexibility to manage your work, your way. We’re a fully distributed team and we’re prepared to continue to support working from home (or the space you choose!). We trust you to get the job done where you feel most comfortable and effective.

What’s this role about?

You will lead and develop an engineering team responsible for building and evolving the core technology that powers Auvik’s Network Management product. This includes systems such as device discovery, identification, and consolidation. These systems are foundational and support many downstream services, making data quality, reliability, and scalability critical. You will be accountable for the health, performance, and ongoing evolution of these systems in production.
You will partner closely with Product Management and collaborate across teams to define priorities and drive execution, while building a high-performing team by developing talent, growing capabilities, and providing clear technical and organizational direction to ensure long-term success.

What will I be doing?

• Leading a team of engineers, fostering growth, accountability, and a strong team culture.
• Owning team outcomes, ensuring delivery of high-quality solutions that drive meaningful customer and business value.
• Partnering with Product Management to shape priorities, make tradeoffs, and execute on roadmap initiatives.
• Collaborating with stakeholders and communicating progress, risks, and decisions clearly.
• Driving engineering excellence through best practices, tools, and efficient development processes.
• Providing technical guidance and supporting the evolution of Auvik’s technology stack, including microservices and modern frameworks.
• Recruiting, onboarding, and developing top engineering talent, while maintaining a high-performance bar.
• Managing and scaling distributed teams across locations.
• Strengthening agile practices and improving delivery through CI/CD and modern workflows.
• Ensuring reliable production systems through strong operational practices such as incident and change management

What are we looking for?

• A few years of experience leading and developing engineering teams, with a track record of building strong, accountable, and high-performing teams.
• Experience working with distributed teams and scaling engineering organizations.
• Ability to operate with ownership, make sound decisions, and navigate tradeoffs in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong product and business sense, with the ability to connect technical work to customer and business outcomes.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience operating and supporting production systems, with an emphasis on reliability and scalability.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and contribute to architectural and system design discussions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence across teams.
• Strong ability to recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent

Are there bonus points?

• Experience in network management or monitoring.
• Experience with device management or identification.
• Experience with network automation. 

Our Stack

• Backend: Go, Java, Scala
• Frontend: React (TypeScript), GraphQL
• Infrastructure & Data: Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS
• Datastores: Relational databases, NoSQL and document stores, OLAP systems
• Observability: Logging, metrics, and tracing across distributed systems
  (… and more, depending on your area of focus)

We’re actively hiring for this role and looking to bring someone great onto the team as soon as possible.

About Auvik

Auvik delivers cloud-based network management software that gives IT teams instant visibility and control over their infrastructure — whether on-site, remote, or dispersed across global networks. Our platform automates network discovery, mapping, monitoring, configuration backups, traffic analysis and alerting, so IT professionals and MSPs can manage complex, multi-site environments with ease.

We’re focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you’re excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. We are happy to make any accommodations you may need throughout the interview process as well. 

Auvik is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law.

Hiring Process

At Auvik, our hiring process is designed to be personal, transparent, and human-led. Our Talent Acquisition Partners review all resumes, connect with candidates whose skills and experience aligns with the role, and stay in communication with you throughout your journey. If our interests align, you'll meet with a hiring manager, as well as additional members of the hiring team in follow-up conversations. All of your interviews will take place via Zoom.

Before meeting with a hiring manager, we also ask candidates to complete a 5-minute Predictive Index (PI) assessment. This helps us understand and match your strengths and work preferences with roles that will set you up for success.

We use AI tools to support administrative tasks in the hiring process; such as helping source candidates, drafting communications, and interview summaries, so our team can stay focused and present during conversations. We do not use AI tools to interview, screen or assess candidates; or determine who moves forward in the process. We debrief and consider the full context of every conversation before making hiring decisions. We believe hiring requires judgment that can be augmented but, not replaced by AI.

Compensation Details 

At Auvik, our compensation philosophy is to be market competitive, reward performance, reflect our commitment to equity and maintain transparency with our employees. We have defined job levels and compensation ranges for each of our markets we employ, based on research from various sources of market data, which are reviewed on a regular basis.

The hiring range for this position is listed below. Compensation offered for candidates in this role is based on a number of factors including job-related skills, knowledge, and experience. These factors may cause your compensation to vary within the range outlined below. 

In addition to cash compensation, all full-time employees are granted stock options to share in Auvik’s future successes. Auvik employees are eligible to participate in additional benefits and programs including our comprehensive health and dental benefits plan, Wellness spending account, GRSP matching program, flexible paid time off, paid parental leave program, and are eligible for remote working subsidies.