Engineering Manager - Realtime and Personalization

**About the company:** Treasure Data Minato-ku, Tokyo Treasure Data is the only enterprise Customer Data Platform that harmonizes an organization’s data, insights, and engagement technology stacks to drive relevant, real-time customer experiences throughout the entire customer journey. **Responsibilities:** Serve as the day-to-day management presence in Tokyo—ensuring team health and that their voice is heard, creating clarity, continuity, and support for the team even when they will work with peers outside of the Japan time zone. Assist in staffing cross-timezone full stack squads to meet the requirements of prioritized projects and ensure that the squad is optimized for delivering end-to-end. Work with technical leads and engineers directly to break down the roadmap and product requirements for delivery. Partner with the tech leads, TPM and PMs to drive project execution, taking joint ownership of the timeline, scope, and delivery milestones. Act as a primary owner of the agile process, ensuring a predictable shipping cadence for at least one cross-timezone squad and remove blockers so the squad can focus on execution and delivery. Champion our engineering culture. You will ensure our operating model scales effectively as we bridge the gap between Tokyo and Vancouver teams. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders in other regions—ensuring local team sustainability with departmental commitments and priorities. Promote an async-first model and ensure cross-timezone squads can operate sustainably. Join our on-call rotation as an escalation point to ensure the right engineer can be brought online if a PagerDuty alert is missed. Requirements Experience working with highly distributed teams across significant time zone differences. You are comfortable with Japanese engineering culture and ready to apply modern Agile methodology. You communicate with nuance and respect while driving crisp decisions. 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with 3+ years in people management. You are a “person-first” leader who sets clear expectations and coaches with candor. Business-level English proficiency is required. You can effectively communicate complex concepts to stakeholders. Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Familiarity with our stack (TypeScript, Kotlin, Rails, AWS). APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION Meet Treasure Data's Developers Scaling ML Algorithms for Enterprise with David Landup David discusses how he enjoys switching hats between ML and software, and why he finds Treasure Data’s “extensive ecosystem” so much fun. Read their story... Overcoming Imposter Syndrome at Treasure Data with Tyler Welsh Tyler is a software engineer at Treasure Data working on their Data Clean Room product. He talks about how Treasure Data supports their team’s learning and growth, and how they invest in the quality and performance of their services. Read their story... **Requirements:** Experience working with highly distributed teams across significant time zone differences. You are comfortable with Japanese engineering culture and ready to apply modern Agile methodology. You communicate with nuance and respect while driving crisp decisions. 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with 3+ years in people management. You are a “person-first” leader who sets clear expectations and coaches with candor. Business-level English proficiency is required. You can effectively communicate complex concepts to stakeholders. **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Familiarity with our stack (TypeScript, Kotlin, Rails, AWS). APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION Meet Treasure Data's Developers Scaling ML Algorithms for Enterprise with David Landup David discusses how he enjoys switching hats between ML and software, and why he finds Treasure Data’s “extensive ecosystem” so much fun. Read their story... Overcoming Imposter Syndrome at Treasure Data with Tyler Welsh Tyler is a software engineer at Treasure Data working on their Data Clean Room product. He talks about how Treasure Data supports their team’s learning and growth, and how they invest in the quality and performance of their services. Read their story...