Software Engineering Manager / Product Owner - Object Storage
About The Position
The Software Engineering Manager / Product Owner leads and line-manages the Centennial object storage engineering team, while owning team execution, delivery, and backlog prioritization. The role builds and develops the team, mentors engineers, establishes effective engineering and delivery practices, and works with the technical lead and senior engineers on technical direction, architecture, risks, and dependencies. The position partners closely with Product Management on roadmap planning, scope, sequencing, and trade-offs, translating priorities into actionable engineering work. It balances feature development with technical debt, quality, performance, maintainability, and reliability, and communicates progress, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs to Product Management and the broader ActiveScale organization. The team works across the ActiveScale I/O pipeline, including S3 request handling, data placement, durability, and movement of data across NVMe, HDD, and tape. The manager maintains enough technical depth to contribute to design discussions and sound engineering decisions, and supports work across S3 and data-mover functionality. This is a hybrid role requiring in-office work at the Centennial, Colorado office Tuesday through Thursday.
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 the 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 within the team, 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 the team has clear, actionable priorities and acceptance criteria.
- 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 a team working across the ActiveScale I/O pipeline, including S3 request handling, data placement, durability, and movement of data across NVMe, HDD, and tape.
- Participate in design discussions, challenge assumptions, and help the team make sound engineering decisions.
- Support the team's work across S3 and data-mover functionality and collaborate with engineers with deeper domain expertise where appropriate.
Benefits
- Medical and prescription health plan options
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Supplemental medical insurance options
- Reimbursement and educational programs supporting healthy lifestyles
- Company-matched 401(k) plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Program for purchasing Quantum stock at a discounted rate
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
