Engineering Manager

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Reporting To: Director of Engineering

Member of : Engineering Group

About Us:

About Us:
Platform9: A Better Way to Go Cloud Native

Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise Private Clouds. Founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers, we are dedicated to transforming IT operations. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns your existing hardware into a full-featured, future-ready private cloud. We innovate across what we build and how we deliver it, staying focused on a next-generation, open private cloud while holding ourselves to one standard: exceptional customer outcomes.

Enterprises are selecting Platform9 to replace legacy virtualization because it eliminates operational risk and complexity. Private Cloud Director is designed for the experienced infrastructure team, offering a familiar GUI experience for managing VMs and containers, seamless integration with your existing hardware and third-party storage, and critical enterprise features (HA/DR, scale, reliability) built-in. This enables IT teams to gain robust API control and a user experience they trust—rooted in customer obsession and an owner’s mindset. We share context quickly and candidly to keep decisions moving.

With over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace, Platform9 is the proven path to achieving true vendor independence and operational consistency. We are an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, supported by a partner ecosystem of resellers, systems integrators, MSPs, and technology vendors committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency. Our values—innovation, customer obsession, ownership, radical candor, and excellence—guide how we build and support every deployment.

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers and engineering leads to execute the product roadmap.
• Hire, mentor and guide engineers on the team on technical tasks and career development
• Work with the customer support team to help manage customer escalations
• Have an unwavering commitment to quality deliverables
• Provide technical support to solutions team for pre-sales activities

Ideal Characteristics/Profile

• Bachelor's or Masters degrees in computer science or a related discipline Extensive related work experience is also acceptable
• 10 years experience as a hands-on engineer or leader in large-scale distributed systems
• 3 years experience in a lead/management role for an infrastructure engineering team
• Built and led strong engineering teams in the distributed systems space
• Mentor and motivate team members, along with aiding their growth and advancement
• Exposure to and understanding of open-source projects
• While not limited to specific technologies, some exposure to public / private cloud-based development with the big 3 clouds, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and languages like Node.js, Python, and Golang is desirable
• Technically proficient enough to drive tradeoff evaluations and execution decisions. Dives deep and understands tradeoffs in technology and strategy decisions
• Can manage geographically distributed teams, even with small numbers of individual contributors in different locations
• Strong organizational skills: ability to manage schedule, people and cost / budget
• Culture fit: identifies with our core values
• Bar raiser - Amplifies the overall ability and productivity of the team.

Nice to have

• Exposure to application development in the cloud-native landscape is a bonus
• Entrepreneurial bent - ability to balance growth with development
• Evangelism: interest and ability to be the spokesperson for Platform9 externally
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and the associated ecosystem
• Exposure to serverless and SaaS technologies, particularly within the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Benefits and Perks:

Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognize their whole person. Platform 9's benefits and perks have been carefully designed to ensure that we take care of an employee's emotions and physical well-being. Many of our benefits extend to families, who form  a significant part of our well-being at work

Please note that benefits change by country.

• Competitive Compensation and Equity
• Medical Healthcare for you and your family
• Generous Time-Off Programs & Annual Year-End Shutdown 
• Hybrid Work Model
• Wellness Benefits
• Professional Development/Global certifications
• Reward and Recognition Programs
• Team-building activities
• Hackathon 
• Company-wide programs

Our benefits have been carefully selected, keeping in mind employee requirements and personal situations now and in the future.