Manager, Engineering

• About Druva
• Druva is the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, helping organizations secure and recover from connected risk across data, cyber, identity
• AI. The Resilience Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native SaaS platform that delivers air-gapped and immutable protection across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, endpoint
• edge environments. Powered by Dru MetaGraph, Druva’s graph-powered intelligence layer, the platform connects critical business context so customers can understand risk, respond faster, recover cleanly
• govern data with greater confidence.
• Trusted by nearly 7,500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 500, Druva helps safeguard the critical information and systems businesses depend on in an increasingly connected world.
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• The Druva Product Platform team builds the shared application platform that every Druva product is built on — the multi-tenant services, APIs
• control-plane capabilities that handle tenant lifecycle and provisioning, identity and access, authorization, configuration, orchestration and job scheduling, metering
• platform-wide observability. When a new workload or product line ships at Druva, it ships on top of what this team owns. That makes the work high-leverage and high-blast-radius in equal measure: the services you own are multi-tenant, always-on
• measured against strict availability and latency objectives, at a scale of thousands of enterprise customers and billions of operations per year.
• As Manager, Engineering , you will lead a team of 10 to 13 engineers responsible for delivering features and enhancements for scale-out distributed systems and applications on the Druva Product Platform. The role requires involvement across the full product development lifecycle — from product roadmap planning, requirements specification, design, delivery, test, documentation
• release management, through to support and maintenance of what you ship in production. In addition, you will be responsible for talent management activities including mentoring, feedback through regular 1-1s, performance appraisals
• career development for your team.
• Key Skills:
• 10-15 years of experience with a consistent track record in development projects involving product development, as both an individual contributor and a team/tech lead.
• 3+ years managing a team of 5+ engineers, including experience managing, motivating, developing/coaching, and appraising the team assigned to the project.
• Experience leading the development of complex, scale-out, distributed systems based on Service Oriented Architecture/Microservices (preferred).
• Understanding of modern programming languages such as Go/Python and concepts such as multi-threading, concurrency, data-intensive applications, and NoSQL databases.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS services — service APIs (REST/gRPC), asynchronous and event-driven workflows, and data stores at scale.
• Experience owning services in production: availability and latency objectives (SLI/SLO), on-call, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Understanding of cloud technologies (AWS / Azure preferred; GCP also relevant) and of containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Desirable Skills:
• Demonstrated experience building products in the areas of Cloud/SaaS services, Storage, Virtualization, or Networking/Security.
• Experience with platform concerns that cut across products: tenant isolation, authentication and authorization, rate limiting and quotas, schema and API versioning, and safe migration of live tenants.
• Exposure to data protection, backup/recovery, or cyber-resilience domains (RPO/RTO, retention, immutability).
• Familiarity with security and compliance expectations for enterprise SaaS (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP).
• Experience shipping AI-assisted or LLM-backed product capabilities, and the platform work that supports them.
• Start-up development and/or management experience is nice to have.
• Role And Responsibilities:
• Coordinate with Product Management, UX and architects to come up with high level design for the features, estimates, plan and timelines for the delivery.
• This is a hands-on role that involves understanding the product at a detailed level and contributing to design discussions and code reviews.
• Define release scope in conjunction with Product Management, and own end-to-end delivery of new features and service releases, often in parallel.
• Own the operational health of the services your team runs — availability, latency, and cost objectives — and drive on-call quality, incident response, and follow-through on root cause analysis.
• Partner with the product teams that build on top of your platform: treat them as customers, set clear API and migration contracts, and manage change without breaking them.
• Help with ongoing escalations as required, and establish lean engineering practices such as CI/CD, TDD, effective code reviews, and automated testing.
• Track and report progress on a timely basis; flag risks early and come up with feasible mitigation plans.
• Define the team structure, and hire and strengthen the team to support the product roadmap and company vision, working closely with Talent Acquisition.
• Coach, mentor and provide regular and timely feedback to direct reports; set SMART goals, run performance conversations, and create individual development plans that groom talent for promotion and career growth.
• Participate in customer and sales connect sessions for product feedback, and maintain strong awareness of the market and competing products

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