Title:  Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Cloud, Distributed Systems)

Job Summary

Our mission at NetApp Instaclustr (www.instaclustr.com) is to make it easy for customers around the globe to run powerful open-source applications at scale - like Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Cadence and ClickHouse, across both on-premesis data-centres and in the cloud.

The NetApp Instaclustr development team is responsible for building, maintaining and operating the platform that allows us to provision and reliably keep thousands of distributed application servers running worldwide.

Job Requirements

• Tertiary qualifications in software engineering or computer science.
• 12 or more years of commercial experience regularly delivering quality software and overcoming technical challenges.
• Demonstrated experience with leading teams of teams and building positive team cultures.
• Proficiency in Java, SQL and at least one other modern programming language - and openness to learning more.
• Strong communication skills and a humble and collaborative nature - essential for working harmoniously with multiple teams.
• A curious mindset with a keen interest in how your work will positively impact customers.
• Eagerness to tackle new challenges and continuously grow the skills and effectiveness of you and your team’s software engineering skills. 

Responsibilities

• Manage 2-5 of the development teams that makes up our product development group, ensuring that they plan, track and deliver agreed upon outcomes.
• Mentor and develop your team leads in a well-planned and effective way, covering technical, communication, quality and other skills.
• Take end to end ownership of multiple aspects of our managed platform, which takes care of the whole lifecycle: provisioning infrastructure, installing applications and, most importantly, keeping the applications running reliably in production.
• Ensure your teams have productive working relationships with their respective Product Managers (In Australia) and can effectively set team priorities.
• Work with the Director of Development and other Senior Managers (In Australia) to set broad technical direction, in line with strategic objectives.
• Drive effective cross-team communication and proactively address cross-team issues.
• Ensure your teams are applying DevOps best practices as part of a global team that operates 24x7. 

Education

•    A Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, a Master’s degree, or a PhD; or equivalent experience is required.