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Senior Engineering Manager, Containers

Mirantis · Remote, USA · Remote

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About Mirantis

Mirantis, an IREN company, is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. Backed by Insight and Sapphire.

About the role

Driving Technical Vision & Operational Excellence: Define and execute the long-term technical strategy and roadmap while maintaining rigorous operational excellence, high availability, and robust software engineering practices. Drive continuous improvement in system resilience, operational metrics, and platform performance. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Education: a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field is required. A degree in a relevant field such as software engineering, computer engineering or information technology could also be suitable
  • Experience: Minimum of 7–10 years in software engineering with demonstrated experience leading or managing engineering teams in commercial software ecosystems
  • Technical and Security Expertise: Strong technical depth in distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, secure SDLC practices, and operational metrics in enterprise production environments
  • Leadership, Hiring & People Management: Demonstrated success in attracting, hiring, and developing top engineering talent, setting technical vision, establishing operational excellence standards, and leading engineering teams through complex deliverables
  • Communication skills: excellent communication skills, including the ability to present technical information in a clear and concise manner, collaborate with stakeholders, and work effectively in a team environment
  • Management Coaching (Preferred): Experience in coaching, mentoring, and managing engineering managers or team leads is a strong plus
More about this role

Our organization is seeking a talented Senior Engineering Manager to lead our development team! We build enterprise software that addresses operational, security, and compliance challenges of managing cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes, while providing enterprise customers with integrated tools for running containerized workloads securely. Our enterprise container platform manages mission-critical services for major global organizations and enterprise customers around the world.

Driving Technical Vision & Operational Excellence: Define and execute the long-term technical strategy and roadmap while maintaining rigorous operational excellence, high availability, and robust software engineering practices. Drive continuous improvement in system resilience, operational metrics, and platform performance.

Security Leadership & Secure SDLC: Embed security best practices across all stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including the secure integration and governance of AI technologies and agentic workflows. Champion security architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and secure coding practices to safeguard cloud-native platforms and enterprise customer...

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