Sr Engineering Manager – Private AI

Description

The company is building its Private AI products and services and has a strategic role in the upstream AI community. This is a people-management role with a direct line to senior leadership, where you shape the engineering culture and oversee a multi-million dollar investment across the AI and CNCF ecosystem.

The role covers the future of private cloud, with the company's Private AI platform at its center.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global engineering organization focused on technical quality and fast delivery, making sure the platform is stable and releases ship quickly.
• Manage global engineering teams building Private AI core features and handling their full lifecycle, with tight integration into vSphere, NSX, and vSAN.
• Work with major partner companies on joint products and solutions.
• Set and carry out the company's upstream contribution roadmap, making sure engineers hold influential positions in key AI-related open source projects.
• Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle for Private AI projects, delivering production-grade reliability and security compliance, plus smooth day 2 operations for thousands of enterprise customers.
• Serve as the main technical voice for the company in the AI and CNCF ecosystem.

Requirements

• Have led a team that delivers Kubernetes-based enterprise software or solutions, with at least 5 years of deep involvement in the Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Have a deep technical background and influence in Kubernetes and the wider CNCF ecosystem, ideally as a maintainer, SIG Chair, or through a substantial record of upstream contributions.
• Have managed engineering teams across distributed, global locations.
• Have built or operated large-scale distributed systems, control planes, or IaaS/PaaS offerings, such as EKS, GKE, or OpenShift.

Conditions

Annual base salary range: USD 167,500.00 to USD 268,000.00.

You are eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, a new hire equity grant, and annual equity awards, all subject to the relevant plan documents and award agreements.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with company matching, an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company-paid holidays, and paid sick leave and vacation. The company follows applicable laws on Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.

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Benefits

• Preferred, not required: active leadership status in a CNCF graduated project.
• Preferred, not required: experience leading cloud-native transformations in legacy enterprise environments.
• Preferred, not required: an advanced degree (MS or PhD) in computer science or a related technical field, plus at least 15 years of experience, of which at least 5 must be in management.