Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

Job Summary

As an Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of all aspects of software development, including operational metrics and production support for your team’s applications. You will define, manage, and continuously refine software and product development processes while collaborating closely with high‑performing engineers. In this role, you will lead day‑to‑day engineering activities, ensuring project plans, deliverables, and commitments are met. You will coach and mentor engineers to support their growth, enhance technical depth, and foster a high‑performance, inclusive culture. You will architect and deliver innovative technical designs aligned with broader product goals, while driving operational excellence through robust metrics, monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives. Additionally, you will promote a culture of learning and experimentation, advocating for best practices across engineering, QA, and operations. You will contribute to team and organizational growth by hiring, developing, and retaining top engineering talent. This role also requires close collaboration with managers and cross‑functional teams across NetApp and Google to build customer‑delighting software and drive innovation.

Job Requirements

• Experience in software development.
• Hands-on software development experience in object-oriented design, coding and highly scalable, available and low latency web services.
• Experience driving new feature prioritization, development, and delivery.
• Experience managing software engineering teams and developing technical direct reports (performance review communication, accountability, motivation/engagement)
• Experience building services or applications in cloud-native architectures using either AWS, Azure, or Google cloud.
• Proficient with Go or C++ or C#. Experience with Python / Java is added advantage.
• Work closely with other software teams and other stake holders to make key decisions and provide status and iterative releases.
• Ensure the timely and high-quality releases of new functionality.
• Provide coaching and career development for members of your team. Be willing to work on additional tasks and responsibilities that will contribute towards team department and company goals.
• Knowledge in infrastructure like hypervisor, Cloud Storage and experience with cloud services including Databases, Caching, Object and Block Storage, Scaling, Load Balancers, Networking etc.
• Demonstrated ability to make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience defining and championing best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Expert in designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture).
• Extensive experience building fault tolerant and high scale distributed architecture on one of the major cloud providers.
• Prior experience architecting and building modern CD/CI infrastructure which works all the time for several hundred developers working on multitude of interconnected software deployment pipelines.

Education

• A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, a master’s degree or equivalent experience is required.
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience and experience in technical leadership, people management is required
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple critical projects

Experience Level

Mid Level