Open Source Engineering Leader — Shape Project Roadmaps

NetApp, Inc.; California; On-site; USD 196,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement Plans

Employee stock purchase plan

RSUs

Paid time off

Travel opportunities

Job summary

NetApp, Inc. seeks an Open Source Engineering Manager to lead the Open Source Contributions team, shaping contributions across Cassandra, OpenSearch, Kafka, and Cadence. You will drive strategies creating customer value and influence upstream contributions with PM, Eng, DevRel, Support, and Marketing.

You will mentor a globally distributed team, set measurable goals, and ensure contributions improve reliability, performance, and user experience for the Instaclustr platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
• 3+ years of people management or leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of open source development models and communities.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of Open Source engineers.
• Define and execute the Open Source engagement strategy and team OKRs.
• Partner with Product Management to translate community feedback into product planning.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Support to resolve upstream project issues.
• Represent NetApp within strategic OSS communities, foundations, and working groups.

Skills

Open source

Distributed teams

Code review

Git

CI/CD

IDEs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

IDE

Job description

NetApp, Inc. seeks an Open Source Engineering Manager to lead the Open Source Contributions team, shaping contributions across Cassandra, OpenSearch, Kafka, and Cadence. You will drive strategies creating customer value and influence upstream contributions with PM, Eng, DevRel, Support, and Marketing.

You will mentor a globally distributed team, set measurable goals, and ensure contributions improve reliability, performance, and user experience for the Instaclustr platform.