VP Engineering

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Full-time

Engineering and Information Technology

Manufacturing

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Copia Automation brings modern developer tools and resiliency to industrial automation. Our product provides Git-based source control for automation professionals as well as state of the art backup and recover technology critical to operational uptime and cyber resiliency. We are a well-funded startup and with a growing list of happy customers throughout the industrial space.

As a Copia employee, you’ll solve challenging, unique, and meaningful problems alongside passionate coworkers, while we change the way everything gets built.

The VP of Engineering ensures that the Copia Automation software team delivers with speed (as measured by consistently hitting mutually agreed upon milestones and deadlines) and quality (as measured through reliability and uptime), and that consistency of delivery continues as we add headcount, product, and technical scope to the team.

• DELIVER BEST-IN-CLASS RELIABILITY, PERFORMANCE, AND SECURITY. Copia has differentiated itself by building a solution that not only solves for the product requirements of the space, but does so at high production quality.
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  Continue to deliver on best-in-class uptime. This is measured through at least 3 9s of uptime in our public cloud as well as feature level stability.
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  Continue to deliver on best-in-class security. This is measured through continued SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, product delivery with secure-by-design methodology, and prevention of and timely response to security concerns and identified vulnerabilities.
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  Continue to deliver on best-in-class performance. This is measured by performance for core workflows (such as rendering and backup) that is equal to or faster than other industrial ventures.
• DELIVER ON THE NEXT GENERATION OF COPIA PRODUCT ROADMAP. Copia has established itself in the industry with a source control and backup solution that are quickly becoming the industry standard. As we scale our GTM we need to build the next set of core product features and deliver on our vision.
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  Ensure consistent product delivery. Ensure consistency of product and feature delivery for the engineering team. This is measured through established milestones, consistent communication around blockers, and hitting delivery dates.
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  Maintain platform quality standards. Ensure that new product delivery doesn’t create substantial technical debt that impacts future product delivery. This is measured through platform level deliverables that tie to developer productivity and overall platform uptime.
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  Incubate and deliver technical unlocks. Ensure that we incubate technical insights from engineering in order to unlock new product opportunity and platform scale. This involves engineering driving user-facing product roadmap through technical innovation and capability unlocks. This can be directly tied to revenue and retention.
• BUILD AND SCALE AN ENGINEERING TEAM THAT ATTRACTS AND RETAINS THE BEST TALENT. Copia’s engineering team historically has high retention rates and high offer acceptance rates that have enabled us to bring together a group of very smart engineers to work on very hard problems. We want to continue to build on this foundation to establish a culture that can attract top individual contributors and managers.
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  Recruit and hire A players. “Recruiting is continuous even if hiring is not.” We should be constantly looking for and building relationships with top engineers to quickly fill roles as they appear.
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  Retain the best engineers. We want to ensure our best engineers (as measured through performance reviews and feedback) continue to stay in the business and deliver value.
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  Continuously support and upskill team members. Successful Copians are curious and constantly growing. We want to build and maintain a culture of encouraging learning, building new…