Engineering Manager - Packet Processing

About the role

Your Role

Are you an experienced engineering leader with a strong technical foundation and an understanding of networking protocols and applications? Do you enjoy leading teams working on complex, performance-sensitive software? At emnify, you will lead a team focused on control plane packet processing, a critical part of our platform that bridges telecom protocols and internet-based systems. This domain is central to how we enable reliable, high-performance connectivity at scale. As part of the Engineering organization, you will take ownership of a team working on one of our most complex and performance-sensitive areas. You will guide both people and technical direction, ensuring the team delivers robust solutions while continuously improving how it operates. The Packet Gateway environment includes: ✓ Go for control plane services in a cloud-native architecture ✓ AWS infrastructure, primarily EKS, with supporting managed services ✓ Distributed systems communicating via Kafka and gRPC ✓ Designing solutions based on networking protocols and packet processing concepts

Your Impact

- Lead and develop a team of ~6 engineers, driving performance, clarity, and accountability

- Provide technical direction for the team's control plane packet-processing systems, working with engineers and adjacent teams to ensure sound design and maintainable solutions

- Translate engineering priorities into clear plans, managing delivery, risks, and dependencies

- Work closely with adjacent teams to align on architecture, trade-offs, and system evolution

- Build a strong team environment through coaching, feedback, and structured development

What We Expect

- Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, including ownership of team performance, delivery, and development

- Solid foundation in networking protocols and concepts, particularly TCP/IP

- Strong technical foundation through hands-on software engineering in Go or C++, or through substantial software/system architecture experience

- Clear and effective communication, with the ability to align stakeholders, guide decisions, and drive execution

See the posting on Emnify's site