About the Team 

The Wind River Cloud team builds a distributed edge platform using Kubernetes, OpenStack, and StarlingX. We deliver highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure designed to operate at scale in demanding environments such as 5G and industrial edge deployments. 

Our scope spans the full platform, including storage, networking, platform services, configuration, and lifecycle management. As a key contributor to the StarlingX open-source project, we help shape cloud-native infrastructure for the edge. 

We are looking for strong engineers and systems thinkers who can work across domains, adapt to changing priorities, and deliver complex distributed systems. Success requires the ability to navigate ambiguity, balance priorities, and collaborate effectively across teams and in the open-source community. 

We value ownership, pragmatism, and continuous improvement, leveraging modern engineering practices—including automation, CI/CD, and AI-assisted tooling—to deliver high-quality outcomes. 

Job Summary: 

As a Senior Engineering Manager within the StarlingX organization, you will lead a team of engineers developing and delivering cloud infrastructure solutions for the distributed edge. StarlingX integrates Kubernetes, OpenStack, and distributed systems technologies into a highly available platform optimized for edge environments. 

You will be responsible for driving execution, developing people, and shaping technical direction in close partnership with your team and peer leaders. This role requires balancing delivery, architectural alignment, and open-source engagement. 

A key expectation of this role is organizational flexibility—managers operate at the platform level and are expected over time to lead different functional areas (e.g., storage, networking, platform services, CI/CD) based on business priorities. As such, success requires broad systems thinking rather than deep specialization in a single domain. 

You will work in a highly collaborative, open-source-oriented environment with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and continuous improvement. 

Responsibilities  

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team delivering capabilities for the StarlingX platform. 

• Own team execution, including planning, prioritization, and delivery across releases. 

• Drive career development, performance management, and a strong culture of accountability and ownership.

• Collaborate with peer leaders to delivercross-domain solutionsacross the platform.

• Contribute totechnical direction and architectural alignmentfor scalable, highly available systems.

• Manage trade-offs across features, technical debt, and customer priorities.

• Lead response to customer issues, ensuring strong ownership and resolution.

• Enable effectiveopen-source engagementand contribution practices.

• Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, including CI/CD and automation.

• Champion adoption ofAI-assisted engineering practicesto improve productivity, quality, and operational efficiency.

• Operate flexibly across domains, with the ability toleaddifferent areas of the platform over time.

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success

• Provenability to lead and scalehigh-performing engineering teamsdelivering complex distributed systems.

• Strong leadership inAgile/Scrum environments, with experience managing cross-team dependencies.

• Demonstrated ability tonavigate ambiguity and shift domains, quickly building sufficient technical context to lead effectively.

• Ability toinfluence technical directionwithout direct authority across multiple teams.

• Strong problem-solving skills indistributed systems and production environments.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability toengage technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience fostering a culture ofownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Strong collaboration mindset with the ability toprioritize organizational goals over local optimization.

• Experience working in or leadingopen-source development environments.

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s / master's degree in computer science or related field.

• 10+ years ofexperience in software development, with a focus on infrastructure or distributed systems.

• 7+ years of experience in engineering management in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

• Experience deliveringcomplex, multi-componentsystemswith high availability requirements.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience withcloud and infrastructure technologiessuch as Kubernetes, OpenStack, and/or StarlingX.

• Familiarity withedge computing environmentsand constraints (latency, bandwidth, remote operations).

• Experience in one or more infrastructure domains (e.g., storage, networking, platform services), with the ability togeneralize across domains.

• Experience contributing to or leading teams inopen-source ecosystems.

• Track recordof delivering applicationsfor usage in 24x7 production systemswith strong reliability characteristics.

• Experience integrating or leveragingAI-assisted development toolsto improve engineering productivity.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD systems, automation, and modern DevOps practices.