Engineering Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 6, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 5, 2026. Nutanix scores A on the Alion truth index.
Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
The Opportunity
Nutanix has disrupted the multi-billion dollar virtualization market by pioneering the first converged compute & storage virtualization appliance that can incrementally scale out to manage petabytes of data while running tens of thousands of virtual machines. We strive to bring simplicity to data center management and constantly challenge ourselves to simplify complex systems.
At Nutanix, we are trying to build the next-generation platform to help enterprises model and develop applications; and encapsulate the application architecture and deployment as code. We aim to provide application lifecycle operations such as build, deploy, start, stop, upgrade, and retire, “out of the box”. We want enterprises to be able to manage and move their application workloads, across and between bare metal, VMs on-premise or cloud, or containers.
About the Team
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is a key portfolio within the Nutanix stack. As we expand our offerings to support modern AI workloads, we are building a unified Hybrid Cloud solution that enables customers to run applications seamlessly while automating Day-0 and Day-2 operations, defining security policies, and monitoring compliance metrics in a single platform. In this role, you will contribute to delivering NCM's capabilities across Application Automation, Cost Management, and Security products.
Your Role
Team building
- Hire and grow a team of high-performing engineers with diverse skill sets
- Hire, coach, and grow first-line engineering managers and program managers
- Engineering & Release Management
- Live the Agile principles and create a high-performing team through them
- Refine and grow existing processes or develop new ones to enable the smooth functioning of the engineering team
- Drive development of timely and high-quality software releases
Product and Technical
- Drive product direction and strategy by interfacing regularly with product managers, solution architects, sales engineers, and customers
- Drive scalable, extensible architecture by participating in architecture and technical design
The role involves performing duties requiring the application of professional expertise and the exercise of independent judgment/discretion, creativity, problem-solving, and decision-making in carrying out responsibilities, as applicable to the position. The specific responsibilities of the role may vary based on business needs and role requirements. Employees can refer to the applicable guidelines and career frameworks for additional information regarding role expectations and responsibilities.
What You Will Bring
Leadership
- A strong leader capable of motivating the very best software engineers, as well as gaining their respect
- That rare mix of intelligence, initiative, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and diplomacy allows you to rapidly earn the trust of astute teams and individuals across the company
People-oriented
- Ensure the engineers and managers are happy, motivated, and engaged.
- Collaboration and communication
- Collaborating with the geo-distributed teams
- Communicate across functional teams, keeping various engineering, product, and business stakeholders informed
Planning & execution
- Should be able to own and deliver large projects end to end, keeping track of timelines
- Be able to keep track of (and context switch between) different threads and ensure that details don’t slip through the cracks
Solid technical skills
- Strong experience in having built, operated, and scaled distributed, large-scale, fault-tolerant systems
- Proven experience with designing and scaling products related to application security and compliance
- Familiarity with x86 architecture, virtualization, containers and/or storage management
- Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, web-scale systems
- Experience in one of the following programming languages: Python/GoLang/C/C++/Java
- Working experience working with storage, virtualization, and/or cloud technologies
- Experience with large-scale distributed database systems preferred
Qualifications and Experience
- BS/ MS in Computer Science or Engineering
- 10+ Years of experience, 2+ Years of management experience
- Proven hands-on technical management
- Experience working in a high-growth multinational company environment.
How we work:
Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. For most roles, that will mean coming into an office a minimum of 3 days per week, however certain roles and/or teams may require more frequent in-office presence. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.
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