As part of a highly motivated global Cloud Engineering team, the right candidate will play a critical hands-on functional leadership role as Engineering Manager and drive architecture design, implementation, and deployment of the Cloud Data Platform to build data operations/orchestration solutions in Calix Cloud.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced and hands-on Engineering Manager to lead development of Calix Operations Cloud, powering large-scale data-driven systems. The role involves building and scaling real-time data pipelines, managing Java-based distributed systems, and driving high availability and performance across platform. 

Key Responsibilities:

Engineering Leadership

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers across operations cloud. 

• Drive design, development and delivery of high-scale, low-latency data pipeline solutions

• Own end-to-end delivery including architecture, development, testing, and production stability

• Mentor engineers and enforce engineering best practices, code quality, and system reliability

Technical Ownership 

• Architect and build real-time streaming pipelines using Kafka and related ecosystem (Streams, Connect, etc.)

• Lead development of Java-based microservices and distributed systems

• Design scalable systems to handle high-throughput telemetry and alarm/event data

• Ensure fault-tolerant, resilient, and observable systems for mission-critical applications

Required Qualifications:

• 12-15+ years of experience in software engineering, with 3–5 years in engineering management

• Strong experience in building data pipelines using Apache Kafka or similar streaming platforms

• Proven track record of managing Java-based backend systems

• Experience building and scaling distributed systems in production environments

• Hands-on expertise in microservices architecture, REST/gRPC APIs

• Strong understanding of data processing patterns (real-time, batch, event-driven)