Senior Engineering Manager, Containers

Mirantis, an IREN company, is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy.

Job Description

Our organization is seeking a talented Senior Engineering Manager to lead our development team! We build enterprise software that addresses operational, security, and compliance challenges of managing cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes, while providing enterprise customers with integrated tools for running containerized workloads securely. Our enterprise container platform manages mission-critical services for major global organizations and enterprise customers around the world.

Main Responsibilities:

• Driving Technical Vision & Operational Excellence: Define and execute the long-term technical strategy and roadmap while maintaining rigorous operational excellence, high availability, and robust software engineering practices. Drive continuous improvement in system resilience, operational metrics, and platform performance.

• Security Leadership & Secure SDLC: Embed security best practices across all stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including the secure integration and governance of AI technologies and agentic workflows. Champion security architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and secure coding practices to safeguard cloud-native platforms and enterprise customer workloads.

• Hiring, Talent Development & Team Empowerment: Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering organization. Build clear career progression paths, foster an inclusive culture, and empower engineers to take ownership of quality, platform health, and technical innovations.

• Balancing Features and Platform Stability: Partner closely with Product Management and executive leadership to align feature delivery with technical debt reduction, system stability, and security enhancements, making disciplined trade-off decisions grounded in operational metrics and customer needs.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Customer Focus: Communicate effectively with executive stakeholders, enterprise customers, and cross-functional teams. Translate real-world customer usage patterns and operational feedback into actionable engineering priorities and platform guardrails.

• Industry Trends & Continuous Innovation: Stay up-to-date with emerging industry trends, containerization innovations, and cloud-security standards, driving adoption of modern tools and methodologies to maintain technical leadership.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Education: a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field is required. A degree in a relevant field such as software engineering, computer engineering or information technology could also be suitable.

• Experience: Minimum of 7–10 years in software engineering with demonstrated experience leading or managing engineering teams in commercial software ecosystems.

• Technical and Security Expertise: Strong technical depth in distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, secure SDLC practices, and operational metrics in enterprise production environments.

• Leadership, Hiring & People Management: Demonstrated success in attracting, hiring, and developing top engineering talent, setting technical vision, establishing operational excellence standards, and leading engineering teams through complex deliverables.

• Communication skills: excellent communication skills, including the ability to present technical information in a clear and concise manner, collaborate with stakeholders, and work effectively in a team environment.

• Management Coaching (Preferred): Experience in coaching, mentoring, and managing engineering managers or team leads is a strong plus.

Additional Information

What does Mirantis offer you?

• Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry;
• Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies;
• Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation;
• Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued;
• Professional development and training;
• Attend conferences and working groups;
• Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks;
• Receive a competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan.

We are a Leader for Container Management in G2 (#2 after AWS)!