Manager, Software Engineering
NetApp
Sourced from NetApp's careers site · Posting last seen October 31, 2026
Job Summary
As an Open Source Engineering Manager, you will lead the Open Source Contributions team and help ensure NetApp Instaclustr remains influential across key open source ecosystems, including Cassandra, OpenSearch, Kafka, and Cadence.
You will drive contribution strategies that create customer value, strengthen the platform, and increase NetApp's impact within the communities that matter most. Working closely with Product, Engineering, Developer Relations, Support, and Marketing, you will help translate customer and business needs into meaningful upstream contributions and community engagement.
This role offers the opportunity to shape open source direction, influence project roadmaps, and build strong relationships with maintainers, contributors, and foundations. You will mentor a globally distributed team, establish measurable goals, and ensure contributions deliver improvements in reliability, performance, and user experience for the Instaclustr platform.
Team Culture
The Open Source Engagement team consists of passionate individuals dedicated to helping open source communities thrive while delivering value to customers. The team is collaborative, globally distributed, and committed to authenticity, innovation, and continuous learning.
This role requires up to 10% travel, including occasional international travel.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of open source engineers.
- Define and execute the open source engagement strategy and team OKRs.
- Partner with Product Management to bring community feedback into product planning.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Support to resolve complex issues involving upstream projects.
- Represent NetApp within strategic open source communities, foundations, and working groups.
- Build relationships with maintainers and influence project direction and governance.
- Track team objectives, delivery plans, risks, budgets, and resource allocation.
- Drive hiring, onboarding, performance management, coaching, and career development.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Promote best practices for community participation and open source contributions.
- Encourage adoption of AI tools and practices that improve team productivity.
- Provide regular executive updates and stakeholder communications.
- Participate in community discussions, technical forums, and industry events.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
- 3+ years of people management or leadership experience.
- Strong understanding of open source development models, communities, and licensing.Experience working with distributed engineering teams.
- Ability to review code and understand modern software development workflows.
- Familiarity with development tools such as Git, CI/CD pipelines, and IDEs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience collaborating across Product Management, Engineering, Support, and Developer Relations teams.Ability to influence without authority and build relationships across technical communities.
- Knowledge of AI tools and practical AI use cases.Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.Strong organizational, planning, and prioritization skills.
- Ability to work independently in a globally distributed environment.
- Comfortable with asynchronous communication and remote collaboration.Willingness to participate in occasional meetings outside normal working hours to support a global team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience contributing to or leading open source projects or communities.
- Familiarity with projects such as Cassandra, OpenSearch, Kafka, Cadence, or similar technologies.
- Knowledge of storage technologies, including object, block, and file storage.
- Experience representing organizations within foundations, steering committees, or working groups.
- Experience defining and managing OKRs, strategy execution, and team metrics.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline. Equivalent practical experience will also be considered.
Compensation:
The target salary range for this position is 196,350 - 292,600 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.
Skills
- open source development models
- open source communities
- open source licensing
- distributed engineering teams
- code review
- modern software development workflows
- Git
- CI/CD pipelines
- IDEs
- written communication
- verbal communication
- Product Management collaboration
- Engineering collaboration
- Support collaboration
- Developer Relations collaboration
- influence without authority
- technical community relationship-building
- AI tools
- AI use cases
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- organization
- planning
- prioritization
- independent work
- asynchronous communication
- remote collaboration
- Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
- open source project contributions
- open source community leadership
- Cassandra
- OpenSearch
- Kafka
- Cadence
- object storage
- block storage
- file storage
- foundation representation
- steering committees
- working groups
- OKRs
- strategy execution
- team metrics
- Open Source
- Engineering Management
- Distributed Teams
- Cloud Platforms
- Community Engagement
Summary
Lead a distributed open source engineering team, set contribution strategy, and build community partnerships that improve the platform.
Job title
Manager, Software Engineering
Experience level
8+ years
Minimum experience
3+ years
Industry
software
Location
Boulder, CO · On-site
+ 6 more locations
- Pittsburgh, PA · On-site
- Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC · On-site
- San Jose, CA · On-site
- Seattle, WA · On-site
- Waltham, MA · On-site
- Wichita, KS · On-site
As listed by the employer.
Salary
$196k–$293k
Listed in the job description
Visa sponsorship
Company has sponsored H-1B before
Management role
Yes
- Oct 23, 2026 First posted
- Oct 23, 2026 Live now
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- Oct 23, 2026 First posted
- Oct 23, 2026 Live now
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