Engineering Manager - Database

At Auctane, we provide mailing and shipping software products including ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShipStation API, Metapack, GlobalPost, and Packlink. Our partners include Amazon, UPS, USPS, eBay, BigCommerce, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Walmart. The company helps businesses worldwide with shipping operations.

• Extensive experience leading, mentoring, and scaling technical teams with focus on engineering culture.
• Proven ability to manage daily database operations including incident management and query performance tracking.
• Skilled in translating architecture and database designs into team deliverables.
• Experience managing database infrastructure in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Familiar with executing security policies and compliance in collaboration with architects.
• Focus on team feedback, KPIs, and career development.
• Comfortable balancing operational fixes with long-term product roadmaps and deadlines.
• Proficient with MS SQL Server, T-SQL, AWS, C#, and .NET.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Terraform.
• Knowledge of POWERSHELL scripting.

• Managing a multi-member team and mentoring less experienced database administrators.
• Active involvement in day-to-day database administration tasks, ensuring continuous database availability and performance.
• Consistently delivering products in line with established action plans and project roadmaps.
• Monitoring team engagement, well-being, and capacity while supporting career growth of team members.
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to define action plans and manage priorities.
• Translating high-level architecture and database designs into actionable tasks and sprints.
• Managing database infrastructure within cloud or hybrid environments for cost-efficiency and stability.
• Implementing global security policies, compliance requirements, and engineering standards.
• Participating in recruitment processes and advocating for company decisions within the team.
• Improving team operations by adopting new management frameworks, agile methodologies, and automation tools.
• Serving as a trusted technical advisor and communicating progress and improvement areas to management.

This position is based in Zielona Góra, Poland and requires working primarily from this location with a hybrid work mode.