Senior Manager, Engineer – Cloud Platform

Senior Manager, Engineer – Cloud Platform

Location: US Remote

ABOUT WIND RIVER

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.  

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and  building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone. 

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world. 

 

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects like Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack and fast-paced Open-Source technologies that are in high demand from our customers.  Wind River Cloud has adopted these technologies into the core of our product, which is driving us to find experienced and high-performing individuals who can learn and contribute to these container solutions.  In addition, the Wind River Cloud team is a leading contributor to the Open Source StarlingX cloud native project, to manage and maintain the critical infrastructure for highly distributed edge solutions, including 5G, Autonomous Vehicles, Industrial Automation, and Augmented Reality.  Wind River contributes and builds upon the work within StarlingX to ensure it meets the demands of these critical applications.

The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills.  You are expected to be versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic environment. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and can bring order to ambiguous scenarios. You will have the opportunity to lead, manage, and grow a team of Cloud engineers responsible for the development of our Cloud Platform product offering. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.

Responsibilities 

• Managing a team of Cloud engineers contributing to ongoing releases of Wind River Cloud Platform including career planning, goal setting, performance assessment, coaching, performance improvement, compensation, conflict resolution, and other people management tasks.
• Develop in an open community, contribute to open-source projects such as Kubernetes, OpenStack and StarlingX.
• Sprint planning and coordination across scrum teams.
• Working with a team of other development and program managers to coordinate work and assure delivery of projects and products.
• Process development and implementation for the direct team and department.
• Contributing to budget allocation and monitoring.
• Interfacing to various other parts of the company such as Test, Engineering Operations, and Product Management

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success

• Development engineering management skills as demonstrated by experience in planning and leading multiple engineering projects using modern project management techniques, including Agile/Scrum; building and motivating highly performing development teams to accomplish progressively aggressive goals; and superior skills in diagnosing and solving typical development issues.
• Personal skills such as: time planning and organization; nimbleness; verbal and written communications; effectiveness as a team member; enthusiastic leadership; personal drive, energy, resourcefulness, and perseverance; integrity; adaptability to new and uncertain environments; a desire to improve practices and processes; and enthusiastic leadership.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects and leading development in the open-source community.
• The ability to be an effective member of a team of managers including a drive to accomplish the collective goals of the team; the ability to fairly and effectively negotiate; and an attitude that puts the good of the team ahead of one's individual needs when required.
• Experience in people management including; career planning; performance assessments; performance improvement; compensation; and general care of development engineers.
• Successful track record of prioritizing and quickly responding to urgent customer needs and adjusting other engineering work to accommodate.  Ability to interact with partner and customer counterparts when required.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s / master's degree in computer science or related field.
• 10+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 7+ years software development management as part of a larger team with interdependent responsibilities in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure software development.
• Track record of building and delivering mission-critical, 24x7 production software systems. 
• Contribution to the open-source community. 
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. 
• Experience in Cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes and/or StarlingX.
• Business/management degree or coursework.

BENEFITS           

• Flexible home office! We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote 
• Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row 
• Wind River’s commitment to DEIB 
• 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance* 
• Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays 
• 401K with company match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) *
• Wellness Benefits through Unmind 

*Varies by region and country 

Compensation                

The annual base salary range for this role’s listed grade level is currently $150,000 to $185,000 plus a bonus for Colorado, New York, and New Jersey residents, and $170,000 to $225,000 plus a bonus for SF Bay Area, Greater Seattle, NYC, and Washington, DC, residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY 

Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.  Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics. 

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com. 

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