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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Engineering Manager - Consumer Software North America - **Company:** SanDisk - **Location:** Milpitas, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $179,700 - $305,500 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Flutter, Microsoft Windows, Artificial Intelligence, Apple Mac Systems, Bioinformatics, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Firmware, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Cloud Services, Cadence Virtuoso, Software Engineering, Software Organization, AI Coding Agents, Backend, Information Technology, Multiplatform - **Published:** November 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/B4A5C91CAACA489FA32FB99D9E77F023/job/ ## About the Role Required: * 10+ years building and shipping software, including 5+ years managing software engineers directly, with senior and staff-level engineers among your reports. * Still technical. You read and review code every week, you can prototype and ship a component yourself when the team needs it, and you can hold your own in a design review and tell a good architectural argument from a confident one. * Track record shipping consumer-facing applications on mobile and/or desktop at meaningful scale, with real instincts for quality, performance, and consumer experience. * Demonstrated ownership of a shared platform, core layer, or internal framework that other teams built on, including the harder half, which is getting feature teams to adopt it instead of routing around it. * Proven ability to hire and retain senior and staff-level engineers in a competitive market. You have personally sourced, interviewed, and closed people who had other options. * A record of bringing order to fast-moving environments: installing cadence, prioritization, and decision hygiene without introducing bureaucracy. * Working fluency with AI-assisted software development, and a substantiated point of view on how it changes team throughput and where it does not. * Experience leading a distributed team across time zones and working day to day with an engineering organization in another region as a peer rather than a vendor. * Clear written and verbal communication, and credibility with senior leadership and cross-functional peers. * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Preferred: * Hardware-adjacent software experience: device or controller communication, firmware update distribution, embedded or systems-level work, storage or peripheral integration. You do not need to have written firmware, but you should be comfortable owning the software that talks to hardware. * Native desktop development on macOS and Windows, and cross-platform mobile with Flutter or similar. * Cloud services experience: owning or operating backend services that a consumer app depends on. * Experience running a developer productivity, tooling, or platform-adoption program for an engineering organization. * Experience in both startup and large-company environments, and the judgment to know which corporate process to adopt and which to work around. * Consumer electronics, storage, or another hardware-led business where software is the differentiator. ## Description * Lead the North American consumer software engineering team as a hands-on first-line manager: hire, develop, and hold a high bar for a group of senior, staff, and senior staff engineers across Architecture and AI Enablement & Cloud. * Own the core and system layer for the Sandisk App on desktop and mobile, the shared foundation beneath features: data and sync, device communication, background work, storage and state, error handling, update and release plumbing. Define it, sequence it, contribute to it directly, and drive adoption by the feature teams. * Drive productive AI adoption across the software organization. Own the tooling, patterns, enablement, and measurement that make AI a normal part of how engineers, and their partners in product, design, and QA, do their work, and be honest about where it does not yet help. * Run the cloud services (PAAS) that back the app and the on-device and cloud AI work for Smart Storage, Edge AI, and Wireless, in partnership with the engineers who own them today. * Hire. Fill the open positions on the team with people who had other options, set the technical bar in the loop, and build a bench that does not depend on any one person. * Own delivery for your team: predictability, engineering health, quality, and the stability and security of the system layer in consumers' hands. * Make decisions and own outcomes in your areas of responsibility. Set priorities, resolve trade-offs with incomplete information, and be accountable for the result. * Establish the operating rhythm for the team: planning cadence, technical decision-making, design review, escalation paths, and the reporting that keeps leadership informed without ceremony. * Partner across organizational and geographic lines: with the India-based engineering and QA organization, with product and design, with program management, and with firmware and hardware teams, to ship integrated products on a shared roadmap. * Develop the people on your team: career growth, technical depth, and a culture people want to stay in., Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person's gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) poster. Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.