Manage a team focused on creating automation tools for deploying Linux developer workstations, while contributing to code development and ensuring quality practices.
Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.
Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.
TEAM
Software development in the automotive industry comes with unique challenges. From deploying artifacts to cloud, mobile devices, and vehicles, to meeting vehicle security certifications and navigating different types of testing and simulation, it can be overwhelming for automotive software developers. That's why the Enterprise Technology Engineering Team (EnTec) builds solutions that enhance productivity, so developers can focus on their true passion – software development – without being bogged down by setup and customization tasks.
At EnTec, our mission is to make software development for Woven by Toyota and the greater Toyota organization as a whole more productive and efficient. We use the latest technologies to help engineering teams go faster, with safety as our top priority. Our modern, agile, and transparent services are designed to bring to life Woven by Toyota's vision of "Mobility to Love, Safety to Live." LaunchBox is an in-house tool that lets engineers instantly provision pre-configured cloud workstations where they need them, when they need them.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager for the LaunchBox team in our Palo Alto office who is passionate about managing a team that is responsible for designing and building best in class automation tools for deploying curated Linux developer workstations. This role is expected to be a hybrid Individual contributor and people manager that can manage a small team of direct reports and contractors while actively contributing code to our product.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Cultivate the success of an internationally distributed team of software engineers (2 contractors, 2 FTE). This team will closely interact with their peers in our other locations in North America and in Japan;
- Act as a leadership figure by engaging people and caring for them;
- Adapt established processes, frameworks to produce quality software;
- Establish a team culture to enable engineers to be successful, engaged and open to collaboration with other engineering and security teams;
- Inspire software engineering best practices for developing high-quality, maintainable, and safe code that will be deployed to vehicles;
- Along with technical leadership, provide technical guidance to the team;
- Engage and contribute to architecture discussions to empower sound technical decision-making;
- Work with the LaunchBox Product Manager and Lead Developer to deliver the product in an agile fashion and according to agreed requirements, budget, quality, and schedule;
- Relentlessly enforce the quality and integrated testing standards and other Woven policies, leading by example and mentoring the team members to operate accordingly
- Engage with TMC partners and other Toyota Group Companies to integrate custom features into the product;
- Engage and participate in strategic activities toward global vision execution;
- Define, align and track objectives and key results for the team.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent English communication and people engagement skills;
- Experienced team manager in the software engineering domain. Deep knowledge of extensive software development. Experienced in producing code (Rust, Go, C++, C, Ruby, or Python);
- An empathic leader capable of understanding human beings and identify their strengths and their weaknesses;
- A leader capable of enabling a security-first culture;
- Excellent technical abilities, capable of quickly understanding complex technical situations that usually involve people, processes and products;
- Experience working in multicultural teams and openness to various cultures;
- Excellent knowledge of project & product management practices;
- Excellent knowledge of modern software development practices in regulated products;
- Mindset for ownership, growth, and a bias for progress;
- Deep commitment to quality.
- Hands-on experience working deploying infrastructure AWS or GCP
- Linux power user or SysAdmin background
NICE TO HAVES
- Experience or certification as a Scrum master
- Hands-on experience with Windows and Linux administration
- Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure with integrated testing
- Experience with Cloudformation or Terraform
- 2+ years experience in development in Rust
- Familiarity with virtualization technologies and containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure environments
The base pay for this position ranges from $140,000 - $230,000 a year.
Your base salary is one part of your total compensation. We offer a base salary, short term and long term incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package. The total compensation offered to an employee will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and level.
WHAT WE OFFER
We are committed to creating a modern work environment that supports our employees and their loved ones. We offer many options of the best programs to allow you to do your most meaningful work and to help you shape the future of mobility.
・Excellent health, wellness, dental and vision coverage
・A rewarding 401k program
・Flexible vacation policy
・Family planning and care benefits
Our Commitment
・We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
・Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. Please see our privacy notice for more details.
Top Skills
AWS
C
C++
CloudFormation
Docker
GCP
Go
Kubernetes
Linux
Python
Ruby
Rust
Terraform
Windows
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