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Director, Engineering
BuzzFeed
Minneapolis, MN, United States
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BuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media and tech company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience. We have offices in 18 cities around the world including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo. Our employees are reporters, writers, multi-hyphenate producers, data scientists, designers, engineers, creatives, brand strategists, and more.
BuzzFeed publishes news stories, investigations, lists and videos about identity and experience, quizzes, recipes, and cartoons across our site and mobile apps, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest and more. We use proprietary technology and modern data metrics to continuously test, learn, and optimize. Our workflow and products are constantly evolving to better serve our audience.
At BuzzFeed, we foster a culture of experimentation, teamwork, equality, humble confidence, and infusing hard work and fun. As an employee, you’ll enjoy perks like office events, snacks, career development courses, and no work on your birthday! But most importantly, you’ll work with inspiring colleagues to build tools and create content that helps connect people all over the world. Come join us!
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We're looking for an experienced engineering manager who can lead teams, contribute independently and work with peers from Product, Design, and Infrastructure to deliver great products. BuzzFeed’s engineering team runs a lean, iterative development process where we deploy early and often. As a Director, Engineering, you’ll lead a small team with huge impact!
BuzzFeed tech teams take pride in designing elegant, simple solutions to challenging problems, creating quality software and promoting best practices for writing maintainable, well-tested code. We need to build for scale and support millions of users globally by default. BuzzFeed products and content distribution have grown massively the past few years, with groundbreaking news investigations and new brands such as Tasty.
You would be joining a fast-paced company packed full of highly-engaged people with the thirst to do great things through dedication to data and giving a voice to marginalised groups. As a leader, you would be best placed to help grow our teams and support a healthy culture to make BuzzFeed a happy and productive place to work. We’d love for you to join us on this journey!
About the role:
BuzzFeed engineering leads take initiative and drive technical and organizational improvement through standards, tooling, and mentorship. Our managers are proactive and forward thinking and evangelise change thoughtfully and enthusiastically through the entire organization.
In this role you will lead teams that provide resilient content distribution services to power our consumer facing products like BuzzFeed.com and our iOS and Android apps. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers and data scientists to evolve these services to meet expanding scale.
Some projects include:
Building robust and scalable content services that are used to render BuzzFeed posts to over 200 million people each month
Maintaining and enhancing our custom AB testing platform
Partnering with our app product teams to build backend services to power new formats and experiences on our iOS and Android apps
You will report to a VP of Engineering based in our New York office. You will act as a technical lead as well as a people manager, directly managing ~5 senior-level engineers, some of whom have direct reports of their own. In addition to working with our teams in Minneapolis, you will interact daily with other BuzzFeed offices in New York, London and Los Angeles.
Responsibilities:
Lead technical initiatives and manage career growth for your team
Work collaboratively with other teams across tech; other technical leaders and design/product/data/qa
Own the output and day-to-day operations of your team
Help translate business goals to technical projects
Be hands on with code. Carry out architecture reviews
About You:
You adapt quickly to change
You empathise with BuzzFeed audiences
You are a compassionate leader who has experience training & skill building
You excel at leading and delivering on complex projects
You are diligent when it comes to writing documentation
You value repeatability, resilience, observability, and operational simplicity
You love discovering solutions to complex problems
You work collaboratively and understand the importance of cross-functional communication to effectively deliver products
About our Tech Stack:
Python / Go
AWS, GCP
Linux (Ubuntu)
Source Control (Git)
Databases (MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, Redshift, BigQuery, ElasticSearch)
Infrastructure Tools (Docker, ECS, Terraform)
Messaging systems (NSQ)
Monitoring / Instrumentation (Nagios, DataDog, StatsD)
Frontend (Progressively enhanced html, css and JavaScript)
Service Oriented Architecture
About BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media and tech company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience. We have offices in 19 cities around the world and more than 1500 employees including reporters, video producers, data scientists, engineers, brand strategists, and more. We fuse hard work and fun through a culture of experimentation, teamwork, equality, and humble confidence. As an employee, you’ll enjoy perks like office events, snacks, career development courses, and no work on your birthday! But most importantly, you’ll work with inspiring colleagues to build tools and create content that helps connect people all over the world.