Software Engineering Manager / Product Owner - Object Storage

Quantum Default Brand • Centennial, CO

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

Lead and line-manage the Centennial object storage engineering team, with accountability for team development, execution, and delivery. Build and grow the team, establish technical ownership, mentor engineers across experience levels, and maintain strong engineering, design review, code review, quality, and delivery practices. Work closely with the technical lead and senior engineers on technical direction, architecture, risks, and dependencies.

Own and prioritize the team’s backlog according to product priorities, technical needs, customer requirements, and engineering dependencies. Define sprint goals and clear, actionable priorities and acceptance criteria. Partner with Product Management on roadmap planning, scope, sequencing, and trade-offs; translate roadmap priorities into engineering work while balancing feature development with technical debt, quality, performance, maintainability, and reliability. Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs to Product Management and the broader ActiveScale organization.

Lead work across the ActiveScale I/O pipeline, including S3 request handling, data placement, durability, and movement of data across NVMe, HDD, and tape. Maintain sufficient technical depth to participate in design discussions, challenge assumptions, and support sound engineering decisions. Support work across S3 and data-mover functionality, collaborating with engineers who have deeper domain expertise where appropriate.

This is a hybrid role with in-office work at the Centennial, Colorado office Tuesday through Thursday. The anticipated salary range is $160,000 to $200,000. Pay within the range depends on factors including relevant experience, knowledge and education, skills and abilities, internal equity, and budget considerations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience with systems, distributed systems, storage software, or a comparable technical domain.
• 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience, including coaching and developing engineers.
• Experience owning or driving an engineering backlog and working with Product Management on roadmap priorities and trade-offs.
• Strong understanding of software engineering delivery, architecture, quality, and lifecycle practices.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across engineering, Product Management, and remote teams, including established ActiveScale engineering teams in Belgium.
• Comfort leading through ambiguity, making trade-offs, and driving decisions across technical, product, and delivery priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and line-manage the Centennial object storage engineering team, including hiring, one-on-ones, performance management, career development, and team development.
• Be accountable for team execution and delivery, ensuring priorities are understood and work is planned and completed effectively.
• Build and grow the team, develop technical ownership, and mentor engineers across experience levels.
• Establish strong engineering, design review, code review, quality, and delivery practices.
• Work with the technical lead and senior engineers on technical direction, architecture, risks, and dependencies.
• Own and prioritize the team’s backlog based on product priorities, technical needs, customer requirements, and engineering dependencies.
• Define sprint goals and ensure priorities and acceptance criteria are clear and actionable.
• Partner with Product Management on roadmap planning, scope, sequencing, and trade-offs.
• Translate roadmap priorities into engineering work and balance feature development with technical debt, quality, performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs to Product Management and the broader ActiveScale organization.
• Lead work across the ActiveScale I/O pipeline, including S3 request handling, data placement, durability, and data movement across NVMe, HDD, and tape.
• Participate in design discussions, challenge assumptions, and help the team make sound engineering decisions.
• Support work across S3 and data-mover functionality, collaborating with engineers with deeper domain expertise where appropriate.

Benefits

• Diverse portfolio of medical and prescription health plans.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Supplemental medical insurance options.
• Reimbursement and educational programs supporting a healthy lifestyle.
• Company-matched 401(k) plan.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program to purchase Quantum stock at a discounted rate.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed