Senior Engineering Manager (Core Retrieval Platform)

At monday.com, we help teams get more work done. We are the best AI work platform that empowers teams to automate, build, and scale their impact end-to-end with tools that actually execute the work for you. With over $1B in ARR, 250,000+ customers, and a global team, we’re serious about building a product people love to use and giving our employees the same ownership and flexibility to shape the way the world works.

We fully embrace the AI revolution and we equip you with AI-powered IDEs, customizable agent rules, prompt engineering tools to streamline your workflow and AI-infused CI/CD pipelines designed to boost speed and reliability. You'll also tap into AI-driven insights, helping you make smarter decisions, faster.

The role is based in our Warsaw office - established in 2022, it is a growing hub for engineers who love solving impactful problems. Teams here work on a broad range of challenges that push the boundaries of our products and infrastructure. Dive into these blog posts to discover the kind of work that could be waiting for you:

• Detecting traffic anomalies at scale

• Managing Trace Volume at monday.com

• How we mastered Content Security Policy

• Guarding the herd – managing database servers at scale

About the Group

The Core Retrieval Platform's mission is critical to future of monday.com: guarantee that all data stored in monday is available for consumption in a single place. With billions of changes a month, data needs to be processed seamlessly and made Searchable by end users, products, and now AI agents. The shift to supporting Agentic Product capabilities makes seamless acess to data in a single place more critical than ever.

The group is on a mission to advance data retrieval capabilities for all types of data with strict freshness, latency, and quality guarantees:

• Write path - guaranteeing hyper-scale throughput and data integrity

• Event delivery - guaranteeing data delivery at ultra-low latency

• Search - guaranteeing query result quality, retrieval latency, and freshness

• Activity Log - providing real-time access tens of billions of data changes in the system

About The Role

• Own the mission and outcomes of the Core Retrieval Platform group

• Work with critical stakeholders across the organization to ensure we're constantly enabling adavancement of rapidly evolving products with highest sense of urgency

• Deeply understand and constantly improve data retrieval capabilities for real world usecases and consumption models

• Work with the Group Tech Lead to define technical strategy, and translate that into actionable scopes of work for each team

• Manage and develop Team Leaders, supporting their growth and ensuring cross-team alignment

• Understand the platform's architecture, usage patterns, and product context deeply and identify the next set of problems worth solving

Your Experience & Skills

• Strong distributed systems understanding with deep background in application and infrastructure optimizations

• Familiarity with large scale production-grade data processing challanges

• Senior engineering management experience - you've managed Team Leaders and Senior Technical Leaders, and you know how to develop people who run complex technical domains.

• A problem-solver who understands reality: you understand the system, organizational constraints, and implement engineering-creative approaches that actually ship

• Experience owning end-to-end complex architecture delivery - not just running organizational ceremonies, but defining what needs to be built and why

What to expect next?

• First up, you'll have a quick 20-30 minute chat with our Talent Acquisition Partner.

• If that goes well, we'll move forward to technical stages that will include: system design and end2end interviews. Each interview lasts 1 hour.

• If successful, we'd love to meet you in person too! So, the final stages will be in our Warsaw office, where you'll have a Management Interview and an HR Interview, each lasting about an hour.

• If everything clicks, we'll be thrilled to offer you a spot on our team!

What monday.com can offer you:

• Opportunity to join an innovative, proven company with big ambitions, competitive salary and benefits, bonus potential, and some roles are eligible to take part in the company equity incentive program.

• A team that values transparency and collaboration while having fun while we work.

• From Monday to Wednesday, we'll fuel your day with free breakfast and lunch in the office.

• Comprehensive private medical care, life insurance, and a Multisport card to keep you active and healthy.

• We care of employee's mental health as well - you will get access to Calm Mindfulness App.

• Get awesome discounts on our partners' products and services.

• Regular team get-togethers and fun events, plus special gifts to mark your birthday and work anniversaries.

• Fully dedicated learning and development team that provides opportunities for employees to grow, gain new skills, master AI tools, and participate in workshops

• Award winning work environment - named a "Best Place to Work" by Built In as well as "Great Place To Work" certified.

• We foster diversity, inclusion, and belonging through our Employee Resource Groups in addition to providing access to resources and education to support our team, facilitate conversations, and encourage understanding.

• A global work environment with employees in New York, Tel Aviv, London, Sydney, São Paulo, Tokyo, and more.