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

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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.

Your skills & experience:

• 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.

Salary & Benefits:

• Gross salary: From 7000 EUR/gross + quarterly KPI-based performance bonus. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.

• 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. See the full list of benefits here: https://career.oxylabs.io/blog/our-work-benefits/.

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