Manager, Engineering

You won’t just join a company at Druva, you’ll help shape the future of data security at the moment it matters most. We are building a modern standard with our cloud-native solutions, designed to simplify the toughest challenges in cyber resilience for our customers. As the pioneer and market leader in fully managed SaaS data protection, we help organizations secure and recover their data from ransomware, cyberattacks, and operational disruptions without the complexity, cost, or risk of legacy infrastructure.

Our momentum is backed by the market: Druva was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Cyber-Recovery, and a Leader & Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Cloud Data Protection Radar. Even better, customers validate that leadership every day through strong Gartner Peer Insights ratings, standout Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and top willingness-to-recommend results.

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Enterprise Workload is a unified server backup and archival built on Druva’s secure, enterprise-trusted, and high-performance cloud platform. With Phoenix, data can be stored indefinitely with limitless snapshots and flexible retention policies, while at the same time significantly lowering your backup costs. Druva takes a multi-layered approach to securing data that is unmatched in the industry – enabling organizations to address both their data security and data privacy requirements.  

As Manager, Engineering, you will be leading a team of senior engineers that is responsible for delivering features and enhancements for scale-out distributed systems and applications. The role requires improvement and involvement across the full product development lifecycle from product roadmap planning, requirements specification, design, delivery, test, documentation, and release management to support and maintenance. In addition, you will be responsible for talent management activities including, mentoring, feedback through regular 1-1s, performance appraisals, etc.

Key Skills:

• 10-15 Years of Experience with a consistent track record in development projects involving product development as an individual contributor and team/tech lead. Experience of managing, motivating, developing / coaching, and appraising the team assigned to the project.
• 3+ years managing a team of 5+ people.
• Experience in leading the development of complex, scale-out, distributed systems based on Service Oriented Architecture/Microservices (preferred).
• Understand modern programming languages such as Go/Python programming and concepts such as multi-threading, data-intensive applications, NoSQL DB’s
• Demonstrated experience in building products in the areas of FS /NAS/ Virtualization (preferred) and storage. 
• Understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)  is a plus. 

Desirable Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in building products in the areas of Virtualization (preferred), Cloud/SaaS services, Storage, or Networking/Security.
• Understanding of cloud technologies (AWS preferred ) is plus Start-up development and/or management experience is nice to have. 
• Experience in managing, motivating, developing / coaching, and appraising the team assigned to the project.

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 mgmt., own end-to-end delivery of new features and service releases, often in parallel. 
• Help with ongoing escalations as required Establish lean engineering practices such as CI/CD, TDD, effective code reviews, etc.
• Defining the team structure and hiring and strengthening the team to support product roadmap and company vision.
• Coach, mentor and provide regular & timely feedback to direct reports.

Qualification:

• B.Tech/ B.E / M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.