Engineering Manager - Database (Hybrid remote)

About us

At Auctane, we are united by a passion to help businesses deliver - whatever their size, wherever they are, and however they operate. We make it possible for businesses to meet the ever-changing requirements of their industry and customer expectations. Auctane products enable hundreds of thousands of businesses to annually mail and ship billions of items - over $200 billion worth - to recipients around the globe.

The Auctane family of mailing and shipping software products includes ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShipStation API, Metapack, GlobalPost, and Packlink. Our partners include Amazon, UPS, USPS, eBay, BigCommerce, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Walmart.

Our values

Win as One. Delight Customers. Deliver Great Outcomes. 

About the role

As a Database Engineering Manager, you will have an impact on your team's operations. You will continuously enhance tools and processes for people management while collaborating with others to define new workflows and implement improvements.

What will you be doing?

• Managing a multi-member team.
• Consistently delivering products in line with established action plans.
• Active involvement in day-to-day database administration tasks
• Ensuring continuous database availability
• Upholding the quality of processes, projects, and systems agreed upon by the team.
• Continuously improving both personal and team performance by suggesting and helping implement new processes and engineering best practices.
• Effectively communicating progress, achievements, and areas for improvement to team members and management.
• Serving as a trusted technical advisor in one or more areas, providing guidance and advice to the team.
• Mentoring less experienced database administrators.
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to define the team’s action plans and manage competing priorities.
• Monitoring team engagement and well-being indicators.
• Proactively identifying and resolving potential performance challenges within the team.
• Supporting the development and career growth of team members.
• Participating in recruitment processes.
• Advocating for business and technical decisions made by the company within the team.

What are we looking for?

• As an impactful people leader and operational manager, you will become the primary point of contact for day-to-day database operations and delivery for your assigned brands.
• Extensive experience in leading, mentoring, and scaling technical teams, with an unwavering focus on nurturing talent and fostering a healthy engineering culture.
• Proven track record of executing daily database management tasks, managing team capacity, and effectively balancing operational support with project delivery.
• Experienced in collaborating with database principals or enterprise architects to successfully implement global security policies, compliance requirements, and engineering standards within your team.
• A structured approach to incident management, query performance tracking, and proactive database maintenance is embedded in your professional DNA to ensure high availability for your brands.
• Skilled in translating high-level architecture and database designs into actionable tasks, sprints, and clear deliverables for your database engineers.
• Experienced in managing database infrastructure within cloud or hybrid environments, ensuring cost-efficiency and operational stability for specific brand workloads.
• You believe that neglecting regular team feedback, clear KPIs, and career development paths is a missed opportunity to build a high-performing database engineering team.
• Passionate about full team ownership of your assigned data layer, encompassing the entire operational lifecycle, documentation, and managing the team's after-hours support rotation.
• Embracing new management frameworks, agile methodologies, or operational automation tools is an opportunity you eagerly pursue to remove blockers for your team.
• Skilled at balancing the demands of critical, immediate operational fixes while keeping the team aligned on long-term product roadmaps and tight deadlines.
• Your actions consistently demonstrate that close collaboration with cross-functional brand teams and product owners is the best path to delivering outstanding, data-driven products.

The tech stack

• MS SQL Server 2017 and newer
• T-SQL
• Amazon Web Services
• Terraform
• PowerShell
• C# .NET

What do we offer?

Hybrid Framework - The best of both worlds! Work from home when you need focus and flexibility, and spend 2 days a week in the office for face-to-face collaboration, sharing ideas and catching up with the team. Because some things are simply better together!

Personal Training Budget. Up to 7.000 year training budget (certifications, conferences attendance, etc.) to invest in your professional development. We want to help you improve your technical skills, feel involved in the product community, and develop your soft skills to lead teams and manage other stakeholders.

Internal and external training, free access to online training platforms such as Linkedin Learning

Languages classes every week. Thirsty for knowledge? Learn a new language by joining our free English/Spanish/German classes. You can connect and enjoy taking up a new language or improving your current skills with one of our great instructors.

Lunch card. Enjoy a subsidized lunch card and grab a meal with your teammates - because the best conversations often happen over lunch!

Free private medical insurance. Take care of your health with private medical care fully covered by us

Attractive life insurance. Extra peace of mind for you and your loved ones.

Co-financed Multisport card - We support an active lifestyle because staying healthy and feeling good matters.

Volunteer day. You can take 16 hours per year in order to participate in volunteering activities! We will love to see some pictures in our slack!

Up to 30 days of vacation per year ( additional days are granted along with seniority at AUCTANE).

Up to 1000 PLN/year PLN/year to match your NGO donations! We are happy to support your initiatives by duplicating the amount donated.

We have an Employee Assistance Program with psychological assistance free of charge for you and your loved ones.

Annual Salary Review: We are reviewing the salaries of all our teams annually in order to evaluate an increase according to individual performance and the business results.

Referral Fee We need your support in hiring top-class talent! We offer a referral bonus of 4k-20k PLN, depending on the complexity of the role and the hiring process.

An inclusive and upbeat work environment Leave your suit behind... we’re a t-shirt and converse kind of place! More importantly, our company culture promotes diversity and inclusion. The personality and opinions of each of our team members are important and valid, and we aim to offer all employees a safe environment where they can be themselves and thrive.

Across-cultural atmosphere We are a truly international team of 20 nationalities that speak 10 languages. Our company language is English and all internal communication and company-wide meetings are in English.

Company events We do our best every day, even at our regular team-building events.

Nice Office in Zielona Gora and Wroclaw (free drinks, snacks…)

Do you want to know a little bit more about the team? Please, don’t hesitate to reach out to Amazing Auctane-PL  and our  Instagram