OpenStack Engineering Manager

About the role

This role offers an opportunity to lead a distributed engineering team responsible for operating modern private‑cloud infrastructure for customers worldwide. You will combine technical leadership with people management, service delivery, and continuous engineering improvement across OpenStack, Kubernetes, Linux and cloud technologies.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and grow an engineering team that manages day‑to‑day services for customer environments, balancing development and operational priorities.
• Establish effective processes, practices and workflows to improve engineering quality and delivery velocity.
• Monitor team health indicators and use insights to enhance performance, collaboration and operational effectiveness.
• Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes that ensure consistent, reliable and maintainable service delivery.
• Represent the team with customers, internal stakeholders, product engineering groups and external partners.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technology‑related field.
• Proven experience delivering software using languages such as Python, Go, C, C++ or Java, and/or managing technical operations teams.
• Professional experience working with OpenStack and strong understanding of software testing, maintainable code and engineering quality practices.
• Experience with Linux system administration, preferably Ubuntu or Debian.
• Previous experience leading geographically distributed teams and strong stakeholder management skills.

Required skills

• OpenStack
• Kubernetes
• Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Python, Go, C, C++, Java
• Agile software development methodologies
• Cloud architectures and distributed systems

What we offer

• Globally distributed, remote‑first work environment with twice‑yearly in‑person team sprints.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Annual compensation reviews, performance‑driven bonus or commission and recognition programs.
• Maternity and paternity leave, holiday leave and wellness assistance programs.
• Travel upgrades for eligible long‑haul company events.