Head of Engineering

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Grepr is a deep‑tech company that highly values relationships, collaboration, focus, and execution. As the engineering lead, you will take over a tightly knit, high‑performing engineering team, helping us scale the team and product with our market success. You will wear many hats, not only building a product but shaping it into an exciting, enjoyable place to work.

Our product uses cutting‑edge machine learning to understand patterns in observability data and use that information to help companies deliver more reliable software to their customers. As the Head of Engineering, you’ll manage the engineering team, inspire our exceptional ICs, plan and execute on our product, and help make foundational technical decisions.

We are well funded by investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Boldstart Capital.

Be deeply involved in architectural and product discussions and planning.

Grow, mentor, inspire, and nurture a talented engineering team.

Lead projects from inception to completion, ensuring delivery of changes needed to make deals happen.

Deliver an exceptional user experience for our customers.

Forge strong partnerships with product management to bring our product roadmap to life.

Own customer support and success in the initial phases of company growth.

• Experience delivering infrastructure software to users in the cloud and on‑prem, executing on an externally facing product for a B2B business.
• Experience building observability products is preferred but not required.
• Experience building and scaling real‑time data processing applications or AI applications in a SaaS model.
• Experience working with large enterprise customers and their complex needs.
• Proven ability to guide and inspire an engineering team.
• Demonstrated skill in hiring, training, and mentoring a diverse team of high‑performing engineers.
• BS in CS / EE or equivalent with 10+ years of industry experience, including 4+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Ideally, experience with early‑stage startups and deep expertise in Java and stream processing systems, especially Apache Flink.

We strongly believe that engineering teams perform best when everyone is an equally motivated, strong contributor, and when egos are dropped and communication and feedback are open and constant. That’s why our motto is “team first.” We believe being physically together is the best way to build new systems that evolve rapidly and to mentor and onboard new team members. We’re on‑site at our office at 3043 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, at least three days a week.

Competitive salary and significant equity as one of the first few people on the team.

Flexible PTO : we really want you to take some time off!

100% paid healthcare coverage for employees and 80% coverage for their dependents.

Ultimately, a company is the people that form it, and we want to build a place where people will do the best work of their lives. You’ll have a huge impact in helping us figure out all the right pieces to make it an amazing place to work.

Grepr provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.