Cloud Engineering Manager

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives. This role is a hybrid position This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Paris office location and should expect to be in office approximately 3 days per week. In the Sonos Voice Control team we design the future of AI based interactions to power music control and content discovery for Sonos customers on any control surfaces (Sonos hardware, Sonos Application, Sonos Voice Control). You will be leading our Cloud Services engineering team in charge of designing, developing and operating the cloud infrastructure behind the Sonos AI powered experiences such as Sonos Voice Control. You will collaborate with other bright minds in software development and machine learning to make Sonos experience joyful, responsive, accurate and private. What You’ll Do Oversee a team of talented engineers (Currently 6 people) designing, developing and operating in production Sonos Voice Control and Sonos AI Cloud infrastructure. In particular your team’s mission is to design and implement robust cloud applications and infrastructure, monitor system performance, and promptly address any issues arising in production. Work closely with the other Sonos engineering teams to co-design and build jointly new experiences for Sonos customers. In particular bring to production the models designed by the machine learning teams, integrate Sonos Voice Control and other AI powered features into Sonos SW ecosystem. Work jointly with Product Management team to support roadmap definition, establish technical feasibility and define cloud services architecture to achieve Sonos product goals. As a people leader, lead your team respectfully, providing ambitious directions, clear goals and supporting your people's development. As a manager, foster collaboration inside and outside of your team working closely with a variety of groups to make Sonos's vision a reality. Apply industry best practices to continuously improve our engineering processes, coding practices and our cloud infrastructure reliability. Required Skills & Experience Basic Qualifications You have 10+ years of experience in Cloud Technologies engineering and have successfully shipped software products at scale in fast paced environments. You have experience in SRE and have operated Cloud applications in production with high reliability/availability requirements. You have a strong technical background and the ability to work closely with engineering teams, understand technical requirements, choices, and architectures. You have already been the manager of an engineering team and have experience mentoring and developing people. You have good written and oral communication skills with the ability to make engineering solutions accessible to non-technical stakeholders. You are familiar with agile manifesto and some of its associated project management methodologies. You are highly flexible to adapt to unexpected situations whether they are related to organizational or technical aspects and find the right solutions. Preferred Qualifications Programming experience with Rust, Scala Experience with functional programming languages Strong knowledge of JVM Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases Experience with AWS, Kubernetes Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. If you don’t have 100% of the skills listed, we strongly encourage you to apply if interested. Visa Sponsorship: Sonos is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time. We ask that applicants be authorized to work for any French employer, both now and in the future. Your profile will be reviewed and you'll hear from us once we have an update. At Sonos we take the time to hire right and appreciate your patience. #J-18808-Ljbffr