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 is a global company with offices in Brisbane, Australia and Sandy, Utah.
Engineering Manager, Squad-Based Delivery
This position is based in Brisbane, Australia.
What We Offer
This is the central leadership role in Opengear’s squad-based engineering model. You’ll lead 6-9 engineers across 2-3 domain squads—owning their delivery outcomes, backlog quality, and career development—while building the self-organising, Kanban-oriented culture that will define how Opengear delivers software for years to come. This is a leadership role that asks you to step back from day-to-day technical contribution and invest your focus where it matters most: coaching your teams, preparing high-quality work, and removing everything that stands between your squads and uninterrupted delivery.
What You Will Do
- Own delivery outcomes for 2-3 squads of 3–4 engineers each, managing capacity, domain coverage, and backlog quality across both feature delivery and support rotation cycles
- Lead feature refinement from initial requirements to squad-ready stories—working collaboratively with SMEs within your squads to ensure work is well-scoped, correctly sized, and genuinely ready before it enters the queue
- Coach squads toward self-organization: running ceremonies autonomously, self-diagnosing impediments, and owning their own continuous improvement without requiring the EM to facilitate
- Manage support rotation scheduling for your squads, ensuring a prepared backlog of feature work is ready for squads returning from rotation so delivery resumes immediately
- Build domain depth and cross-skilling across your squads over time, identifying knowledge gaps and developing structured plans to close them
- Conduct regular 1:1s, set and track clear goals, and actively develop each engineer’s career—including identifying and preparing engineers for tech lead responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Solutions PO, product stakeholders, and peer EMs on feature planning, priority alignment, and cross-squad dependencies
Who You Are and What You Bring
- Engineering manager with a demonstrated track record of leading small, high-performing delivery teams
- Comfortable leading without being in every meeting—you build team autonomy and self-sufficiency, not dependency on your presence
- Strong instinct for backlog quality and feature refinement; you know what ‘squad-ready’ looks like and can build collaborative processes to get there reliably
- Familiar with Kanban or flow-based delivery models; you understand throughput, cycle time, and queue health, and you use them to manage delivery—not just report on it
- Technically credible enough to assess work complexity, challenge sizing, and coach engineers through implementation trade-offs
- Proven record of developing engineers toward senior and tech lead capability
- Clear communicator who can work across product, engineering, and support contexts without losing signal
Desired But Not Required
- Familiarity with Opengear’s product domains (Lighthouse, NGCS, OGCS, OEM)
- Experience facilitating retrospectives and driving measurable improvement in team practices
- Exposure to flow metrics: cycle time, throughput, queue depth, and delivery forecasting
Digi International offers a distinctive Total Rewards package including a short-term incentive program, new hire stock award, paid parental leave, and hybrid work environment.
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.
Applicants must have the right to work permanently in Australia.
