Opengear keeps networks running smoothly with our Network Resilience Platform. Leveraging our Smart Out of Band solution and automation capabilities, users gain unparalleled presence and proximity to devices. By providing an independent management plane, the Network Resilience Platform ensures secure remote access, enabling connectivity from anywhere. This allows for the effortless deployment, management, and remediation of networks—on the First Day, Worst Day, and Every Day. It’s why over 75% of Fortune 500 companies trust us for their networks, whether on- or off-premises or in the cloud. Opengear, a Digi company, is a global company with offices in Brisbane, Australia and Sandy, Utah.
- Ownership of the US engineering node as a full-function team
- Accountability for feature delivery, with squads rotating through support duty alongside the wider engineering organization
- Coaching and career development for engineers across all levels of seniority
- Strengthening the team’s operating model and culture
- Growing the team through hiring
- Cross-site collaboration with Brisbane engineering, Product, and Support
- Own delivery outcomes for the US engineering node as a full-function team—primarily feature delivery, with your squads rotating through support duty alongside the wider engineering organization rather than operating as a single-purpose support unit
- Lead, manage, and develop the US-based engineers reporting to you, across all levels of seniority, through regular 1:1s, clear goal-setting, and active career development
- Strengthen how US engineering operates day to day—delivery practices, ways of working, and a self-sufficient team culture aligned with Opengear’s broader engineering direction
- Develop engineers across the team, building clear growth paths that take them toward senior and lead capability
- Plan and balance your squads’ rotation through support duty alongside their feature delivery commitments, so that neither is deprioritized
- Build domain depth and cross-skilling across the US team over time, identifying knowledge gaps and developing structured plans to close them
- Grow the US team through hiring as headcount expands, and develop an additional US manager as the team reaches sufficient scale
- Partner closely with the Software Director, peer Engineering Managers, the Solutions PO, and product stakeholders on planning, priority alignment, and cross-site dependencies
- Provide technical and architectural guidance—assessing work complexity, challenging sizing, and coaching engineers through design decisions and implementation trade-offs across the products and domains they own
- Champion strong engineering practices—software quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and secure development—and support the team through technology transitions while maintaining delivery commitments
- Identify delivery risks and technical obstacles early, resolving cross-team dependencies and clearing the path to execution
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience: 8+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years in an engineering management or team lead capacity
- Engineering manager with a demonstrated track record of leading high-performing software delivery teams
- Energized by growing a team—comfortable strengthening a team’s operating model, culture, and practices, and scaling it through hiring and development
- Strong people developer with a genuine record of growing engineers at all levels of seniority toward senior and lead capability
- Comfortable running feature delivery while your squads rotate through support duty, balancing the two without letting either fall behind
- Strong technical credibility in production-grade software development, enabling effective architectural guidance and sound decision-making on complexity, sizing, and implementation trade-offs
- Comfortable leading with autonomy as part of a globally distributed organization—you build team self-sufficiency rather than dependency on your presence
- Clear communicator who can work effectively across engineering, product, and support contexts, and across sites and time zones
- Experience growing an engineering team, site, or geographic node
- Experience leading teams that balance feature delivery with customer response / support work
- Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams across time zones
- Familiarity with Kanban and Lean software practices
- Background in data center, networking, or infrastructure software environments
*Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. This includes, but is not limited to, work visas, employment-based visas, or residency sponsorship. Candidates must have valid work authorization in the United States at the time of application. Visa applications of any kind will not be considered.
Digi International offers a distinctive Total Rewards package including a short-term incentive program, new hire stock award, paid parental leave, open (uncapped) PTO, and hybrid work environment in addition to our competitive medical, health & wellbeing and compensation offerings.
The anticipated base pay range for this position is $134,500 – $210,000. Pay ranges are determined by role, job level and primary job location. The range displayed reflects the reasonable range we anticipate paying for this position and reflects the cost of labor within several U.S. geographic markets. The specific salary offered within the range will depend on various factors including, but not limited to the candidate’s relevant and prior experience, education, skills, and primary work location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each position. Pay ranges are typically reviewed and updated annually.
At Digi, we embrace diversity and inclusion among our teammates. It is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are committed to providing an environment of respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates.
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Skills Required
- 12-15 years of professional experience in software and/or firmware development
- 5+ years of engineering management experience
- Strong technical foundation in Linux-based or embedded systems
- Demonstrated ability to manage senior individual contributors or subordinate managers
- Strong technical credibility in systems-level software development, such as C/C++ or Rust
What We Do
Digi International (Digi) is a leading global provider of mission-critical and business-critical machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity products and services. We help our customers create next generation connected products and deploy and manage critical communications infrastructures in demanding environments. Our embedded modules and off-the-shelf routers, gateways and network products are designed for relentless reliability and deliver unquestioned performance and security. Our cloud-based software and professional services help customers put their connected products and assets to work across a broad range of mission-critical industry applications. Founded in 1985, we’ve helped our customers connect over 100 million things, and growing.
