Engineering Manager, Flash Blade
On-siteBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Lead a team of engineers in Bengaluru, India, focusing on driving the direction of observability software and enabling product teams to deliver high-quality, reliable solutions. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to build capabilities that provide actionable insights into product health, performance, capacity, and reliability. Manage projects throughout the SDLC, establish feedback loops from customers, and drive alignment across complex, distributed engineering environments. Requires 12+ years of combined software development and management experience, including 3+ years in technical management while staying hands-on.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of combined experience as a software developer and manager
- 3+ years of technical management experience while staying hands-on
- 7+ years of hands-on software development experience
- Strong exposure to one or more of the following areas: distributed systems, systems programming, observability/telemetry, data platforms, or solving problems at scale
- Strong understanding of software and systems architecture, including how distributed components interact and how to design for scalability, reliability, and performance
- Proven expertise in managing projects throughout the entire SDLC, delivering products to market on schedule, and establishing effective feedback loops from customers into product and engineering
- Experience hiring, coaching, developing, and leading teams with senior and highly experienced engineers
- Ability to successfully manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously while maintaining clarity on execution and outcomes
- Strong business and customer focus, with the ability to connect technical investments to customer and business value
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical problems and drive teams toward pragmatic solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence engineers, architects, product managers, and senior leadership
- Energetic yet empathetic and calm under pressure, with the ability to create a high-trust environment while maintaining a strong focus on accountability and execution
- Ability to operate effectively in a global R&D environment, influence across organizational boundaries, and build strong relationships with teams across geographies
- Must understand the dynamics of global R&D
- Must possess deep knowledge of local culture
- Must have the ability to champion Pure values and leadership attributes
- Must be able to lead and influence multiple stakeholders across cross-functional teams
- Must be able to drive alignment across complex, distributed engineering environments
- Must be able to provide technical leadership and direction
- Must be able to mentor engineers on your team
- Must be able to collaborate with product, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Must be able to deliver high-quality, reliable software to our customers
- Must be able to focus on driving and shaping the direction of our observability software
- Must be able to enable product engineers to deliver high-quality, reliable software to our customers
- Must be able to lead a team of engineers located in Bengaluru, India
Desired Qualifications
- Experience building or managing observability, telemetry, monitoring, analytics, or infrastructure platforms is a strong plus
- Understanding of technologies and concepts such as metrics, logs, traces, OpenTelemetry, distributed telemetry pipelines, time-series data, and large-scale data processing is a plus
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