Senior Engineering Manager - Containers at Edge

United States Digital Space LLC; Denver; Hybrid; CAD 317,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible vacation + paid sick leave

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Containers at the Edge to lead a distributed team delivering low-latency, secure edge container infrastructure. You will hire and mentor engineers, set the technical direction, and partner with product and operations to scale globally.

You’ll drive a durable roadmap, foster operational excellence, and contribute to core platform enhancements while balancing reliability with innovation across thousands of edge nodes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing Software Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering teams.
• 10+ years of distributed systems, CDN, or cloud infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on development experience in Go, Rust, or C/C++.
• Ability to drive a durable technical roadmap and collaborate across functional teams.
• Experience building and automating large-scale production infra in complex networks.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term strategic vision and multi-year technical roadmap, ensuring investments align with business goals.
• Hire and develop a high-performing team including software engineers, principal ICs and SREs, focusing on structure, talent development, and scaling capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders using a product-owner mindset to define clear roadmaps and priorities.
• Communicate strategy, progress, and risk to executives and technical leaders across the company.
• Leverage deep technical experience to contribute to development efforts and drive improvements.

Skills

Team management

Distributed systems

Go/Rust/C/C++

Technical roadmap

On-prem / cloud infra

Linux performance

Job description

the company helps people stay better connected with the things they love. the company’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. the company’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.

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Senior Engineering Manager, Containers at the Edge

The Containers at the Edge team is responsible for architecting, deploying, and managing our distributed container infrastructure at the edge in support of customer workloads. As Senior Engineering Manager of the team, you will hire and lead a high-performing engineering team to ensure low latency, high availability, and secure application delivery across a geographically diverse fleet of thousands of resource-constrained nodes. You will foster a culture of technical rigor, operational excellence, and innovation across the entire platform domain, moving beyond single-team execution to driving cross-organizational advancements. While reliability is critical, innovation is key to success -driving strategic improvements, building foundational team processes and software systems that continually evolve..

What You'll Do:

• Define the long-term strategic vision and multi-year technical roadmap,ensuring these investments align with the company’s overall business
• Hire and develop a high-performing team that includes software engineers, principal-level individual contributors and SREs, focusing on organizational structure, talent development, and scaling team capabilities to meet future demand
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders using a product-owner mindset to define clear roadmaps and priorities
• Clearly communicate the strategy, progress, and risk profile to executive leadership and technical stakeholders across the company
• You will need to leverage deep, related technical experience to succeed in this role, including your own development contributions

What We're Looking For:

• 4+ years of experience managing Software Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering teams.
• 10+ years of related technical experience with distributed systems, CDN, or cloud infrastructure such as container networking, platform ownership, virtualization technology.
• Extensive hands-on experience in software development using Go, Rust, or C/C++.
• Demonstrated ability to drive a durable technical roadmap and facilitate effective collaboration in cross-functional teams.
• Experience building and automating large scale production infrastructure in on-prem environments within a complex and dynamic networking environment.
• Extensive hands on experience working in a Linux environment with a solid understanding of system internals and performance optimization.

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Experience participating in open source communities or standards bodies
• Experience transforming production enterprise scale environment to new technologies
• Experience adopting or operating in high compliance production environments

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support any on-call coverage.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

The preferred locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York, NY

the company currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider exceptionally qualified remote candidates within the US.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $228,280 to $273,936.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in the company’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. the company works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with the company. Curious about our offerings?

• We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees.
• We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchas