Engineering Manager – Cloud Platform Services
Location: India
Function: Engineering
Reports To: Sr. Director of Cloud Platform
Are you...
Passionate about building, leading, and developing high-performing software engineering teams?
Driven to stay deeply engaged in technology, guide architectural decisions, and solve complex engineering challenges?
Excited about building reliable, scalable cloud platform services that power the industry's leading AI-native Product Intelligence Platform?
If so, we'd love to meet you.
Why Esko?
Esko, part of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), is the global leader in packaging and product lifecycle solutions. More than 25,000 customers across 140+ countries rely on Esko to design, manage, manufacture, and deliver products found on store shelves every day. Packaging for 9 out of 10 major consumer brands is managed using Esko solutions. As we enter our next phase of growth, we're making significant investments in cloud, AI, and platform engineering to build the future of product innovation.
Our vision is to create the industry's leading AI-native Product Intelligence Platform. This modern, multi-tenant cloud platform unifies product, packaging, regulatory, quality, manufacturing, and supply chain data into a single intelligent ecosystem. By combining cloud-native architecture, intelligent automation, and AI-powered insights, we're helping global consumer goods, life sciences, and manufacturing companies innovate faster, improve compliance, reduce waste, and bring products to market with greater speed and confidence.
About the Role
We are looking for a technically strong Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers building and evolving shared cloud platform services that power Esko’s SaaS products. This is a people leadership and engineering execution role requiring deep technical judgment, active engagement in engineering decisions, and accountability for scalable, secure, reliable, production-ready services.
You will partner closely with Product Managers and Architects to translate priorities and architectural direction into effective technical plans. You will guide system design, review critical code and implementation choices, coach engineers, and own delivery quality and operational readiness. You should be capable of writing and debugging production-quality code when needed, while empowering engineers to own day-to-day implementation rather than serving as the team’s primary developer.
What You Will Do
Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Own engineering delivery and operational health of shared cloud platform services, ensuring scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
Partner with Product Managers and Architects to translate requirements and architectural direction into technical plans and production-ready capabilities.
Lead technical design discussions and architecture reviews; critically evaluate trade-offs and guide engineers through cloud-native and distributed systems challenges.
Own predictable engineering execution through planning, prioritization, dependency management, technical debt management, and continuous improvement.
Set and reinforce standards for code quality, code reviews, automated testing, performance, observability, security, and release readiness; remain technically engaged in critical implementation decisions.
Lead response to complex production incidents, including technical diagnosis, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and measurable improvements in service reliability.
Hire, coach, mentor, and manage performance and career development; empower senior engineers to own detailed designs and implementation while maintaining accountability for engineering outcomes.
Required Experience
10+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful hands-on development experience, with at least 3 years of direct people-management experience leading and…