Head of Engineering (Webshare product)

We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.

What’s in store for you:

• You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:
• 6PB+ Ceph storage
• 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems
• 300k+ service requests/sec processed
• 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed

In this role, you’ll:

• Own the technical direction of the whole Webshare product engineering function.
• Lead people management (hiring, growth, performance, salary reviews) for a team of 8–10 senior engineers, driving delivery according to business priorities and ensuring the right team ambition according to capacity.
• Champion team health: Catch problems early, don't wait for retros.
• Ensure team skill composition matches product direction across the engineering org.
• Own delivery outcomes: PM defines what/why; you own how/when/who.
• Accept work from PM, push back when specs aren't ready.
• Report delivery expectations, status and flags to business.
• Balance features, experiments, tech debt, bug fixes.
• Remove impediments: cross-team deps, infra blockers, unclear requirements.
• Drive technical excellence: code review culture, testing, observability.
• Maintain infrastructure reliability (650B+ req/month, 300K+ req/sec - uptime is existential).
• Set engineering standards and own architecture decisions across product engineering; drive alignment on strategic technical bets.
• Navigate tech debt decisions: when to pay down, when to live with it.

• Product sensibility: understands why, not just how.
• Comfortable with high-autonomy engineering cultures.
• Technical background.
• Fluent English (international team).

Nice to have

• Experience in System Architecture.
• SaaS / API / developer tools experience.
• Python ecosystem (Django, async Python) experience.
• High-throughput distributed systems (billions-scale) experience.
• Knowledge of proxy, scraping, or data collection industry.

• Growth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.
• Health & Well-being: Private health insurance, psychotherapy, on-site well-being consultants, 24/7 gym access, and a wellness app.
• Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation, quarterly team-building budgets, and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.
• Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, barista coffee, and all the tools you need.