Sr. Engineering Manager - Consumer Software North America
$179,700 - $305,500 USD yearly
Lead the North American engineering team building the core and system layer for the Sandisk App on desktop and mobile.
Originally posted 10 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Lead the North American consumer software engineering team across Architecture and AI Enablement & Cloud, managing senior, staff, and senior staff engineers distributed across the US and Mexico. You will define and build the core and system layer for the Sandisk App on desktop and mobile while running the cloud services backing Smart Storage, Edge AI, and Wireless.
What you'll do
- Manage a team of senior, staff, and senior staff engineers across Architecture and AI Enablement & Cloud as a hands-on first-line manager.
- Own the core and system layer for the Sandisk App on desktop and mobile, covering data and sync, device communication, background work, storage and state, error handling, and update plumbing.
- Drive AI adoption across software engineering, owning the tooling, patterns, enablement, and measurement across engineering, product, design, and QA.
- Run the cloud services (PAAS) backing the application and both on-device and cloud AI for Smart Storage, Edge AI, and Wireless.
- Hire and develop engineers, set the technical bar, and establish operating rhythms including planning cadence, technical decision-making, and design reviews.
- Partner with the India-based engineering and QA organization, product, design, program management, and firmware and hardware teams to ship integrated products.
What you'll need
- 10+ years building and shipping software, including 5+ years managing software engineers directly with senior and staff-level reports.
- Hands-on technical capability to review code weekly, prototype components, and participate directly in architecture and design reviews.
- Track record shipping consumer-facing applications on mobile or desktop at scale.
- Demonstrated ownership of a shared platform, core layer, or internal framework adopted by feature teams.
- Working fluency with AI-assisted software development and its impact on team throughput.
- Experience leading distributed teams across time zones and collaborating with international engineering organizations.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Hardware-adjacent software experience, such as device or controller communication, firmware update distribution, embedded or systems-level work, or storage or peripheral integration.
- Native desktop development on macOS and Windows, and cross-platform mobile development with Flutter or similar.
- Experience owning or operating cloud backend services (PAAS) that support consumer applications.
- Experience running developer productivity, tooling, or platform-adoption programs.
- Background in consumer electronics, storage, or hardware-led software environments.
Skills: storage, consumer software, core layer, cloud, architecture
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 65-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Storage Systems
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Open roles in category
38
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Median days since first seen
65 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$220k
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| Metric | SanDisk | All employers we track in this specialty (38 roles · 14 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 38 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 66 | 6610 · 157 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 0 d | 65 d (+65 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $220k |
Skills observed across this category: storage, consumer software, core layer, cloud, architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 21 open roles · median 74 d
- MangoBoost · 4 open roles · median 4 d
- AMD · 2 open roles · median 7 d
- Broadcom · 1 open role · median 173 d
- Intel Corporation · 1 open role · median 18 d
- KIOXIA America · 1 open role · median 13 d
How we counted: 38 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Storage Systems) roles from 14 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.