Engineering Manager - AHV Control Plane

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Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their business. Companies around the world use Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software to bring one-click application management and mobility across public, private and distributed edge clouds so they can run any application at any scale with a dramatically lower total cost of ownership. The result is organizations that can rapidly deliver a high-performance IT environment on demand, giving application owners a true cloud-like experience.

About the Team

AHV management group engineers the mission-critical Virtual Machine Management (VMM) control plane and multi-cluster management plane, accelerating AHV hypervisor adoption across global enterprises. We manage the comprehensive life cycle of virtualized resources, solving intricate architectural problems in high availability, cluster resource management, and sophisticated RBAC systems. As a foundational pillar of the Nutanix stack, we partner with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, fault-tolerant, and exceptionally serviceable infrastructure. This is an opportunity to architect and ship essential virtualization capabilities that empower large-scale data centre environments.

Your Role

• Lead the design, development, and scaling of highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems for the Acropolis management control plane of the Nutanix operating system.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of platform features that scale to millions of VMs across thousands of data center nodes.
• Provide technical leadership in architecture, distributed systems design, clustering, scalability, performance optimisation, and operational excellence.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, execution planning, and engineering best practices.
• Balance hands-on technical contributions with people management responsibilities, including coaching, career development, and team growth.
• Collaborate with geo-distributed teams to deliver high-quality projects with strong ownership, predictability, and execution excellence.
• Drive technical discussions, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and ensure long-term platform reliability and maintainability.
• Take ownership of project execution from design through deployment while maintaining a high quality and operational bar.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the team.

What You Will Bring

• Strong expertise in designing and building scalable distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of clustered, high-performance, fault-tolerant systems and associated architectural trade-offs.
• Strong knowledge of OS internals, systems programming, and systems-level architecture.
• Proven experience building and operating production-grade backend infrastructure/services at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically strong engineering teams while remaining hands-on when required.
• Strong project ownership and execution capabilities with the ability to independently drive complex initiatives.
• Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills for working with globally distributed engineering teams.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to initiate, execute, and deliver complex features end-to-end.
• Experience mentoring engineers, conducting code/design reviews, and driving engineering excellence.

Qualifications & Experience

A bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or a related discipline.

• 10+ years of industry experience in systems, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
• Minimum 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience leading high-performing teams.
• Hands-on experience developing and scaling large distributed platforms and infrastructure software.
• Strong technical background with the ability to contribute to architecture and low-level systems design discussions.
• Preferred Programming Languages – Python & Go (Golang).

Work Arrangement

Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. In locations where our workplace policy applies (i.e. San Jose, Durham, Mexico City, Bangalore, Pune, Hoofddorp, Belgrade, Barcelona, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), employees are expected to work onsite a minimum of 3 days per week to foster collaboration, team alignment, and access to in-office resources. Workplace type may vary based on location and team requirements. Please speak with your recruiter for details. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.