Software Engineering Manager - Networking Products
- Location
- Remote (US)
- Listed
- 30 days ago
The Role
You will lead the engineers who build these products, and you will stay hands-on. You own the team's architecture, delivery and roadmap, and you are accountable for what it ships. Networking is the product domain. The job is engineering leadership.
What you'll do
- Partner with Product on the roadmap and make trade-offs visible early.
- Write specs, review pull requests and ship real changes with the team.
- Scope and cut work monthly, deliver to committed dates and report bad news early.
- Move the team toward DORA High and then Elite, with tests on every change.
- Build AI-assisted engineering into daily work, including automated review in the pull-request path.
- Clear cross-team dependencies before they block delivery.
- Hold one-to-ones, write growth plans, give direct feedback and own hiring.
- Take a turn on the on-call rotation and close incident actions on time.
What you'll bring
- 7+ years in software engineering, including at least 1 year leading engineers.
- You write code and review pull requests today.
- A record of making a team measurably faster and delivering predictably.
- Hands-on AI-assisted engineering experience, with results you can quantify.
- Experience running on-call and owning hiring.
A must: background at a managed hosting, cloud, or other high-availability service business.
Our Stack
Perl, PHP, React and Vue, Postgres and MariaDB, HAProxy and nginx, configuration management.
Networking Knowledge
- You should know the basics: VLANs, VPNs, firewalls and load balancers.
- You don't need to have administered them in production.
- Your engineers and our network specialists bring the depth, and you bring the judgment to ship products on top of it.
How we measure success
- Speed, measured by DORA metrics.
- Predictable, reliable delivery.
- AI adoption and its impact.
Engineering here exists to move the business, not to be busy.
Work Environment
- While performing the essential duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to speak and hear
- While performing the essential duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to use hands for keyboarding, gross manipulation, and fine manipulation
- Works at a desk and computer screen for extended periods of time
- Works in a traditional climate controlled office environment or from home
- Works in a highly stressful environment dealing with a wide variety of challenges, deadlines and diverse employee population
About Nexcess
Nexcess provides cloud solutions for companies who need control over their environments. Our mission is to simplify the experience, lower risk, and enable performance and scalability. We leverage our expertise and Nexcess owned portfolio of compute, cloud services, hosting and software solutions to help businesses grow. We serve 185k customers with more than 100,000 servers across the globe.
About the Team
Nexcess customers run workloads where performance and compliance both matter. The Network Solutions team builds the software behind their networking: the customer portal features and server-side services for load balancing, firewalls, VPN and VPC. We write the code, APIs and automation that let customers configure and manage these products themselves.
This is a software engineering team. We don't run a network operations center.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of the position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all job responsibilities, tasks, or duties. Additional duties and tasks may be assigned as part of the job function. Liquid Web Inc. reserves the right to modify, interpret, or apply this job description in a way that best supports the organizational needs. The job description in no way creates or implies an employment contract. The employment contract remains "at will".
Liquid Web is committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
From Nexcess's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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