Position Type

Full Time

Career area

Software Engineering

Location

4/F, WeWork, Embassy GolfLinks, Karnataka, Karnātaka 560093, India

Job ID

R-85569

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It’s a place where passionate individuals come together to create the future of sport. We are unapologetic about who we are and what we’re after—bringing innovation and inspiration to every athlete* in the world. We look for athletes who can push boundaries, elevate our potential and continue leading us to greatness. The next tastemakers, playmakers, risk takers and glue players. Are you game?

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

The Cloud & Core Engineering team builds, operates, and provides full lifecycle management of Nike's fully managed, multi-cloud platform and software-defined network, the foundation that enables self-service cloud, data, and AI environments for Nike Global Technology. Cloud and Core Engineering team is part of Foundational Services, AI & Security Technology domain. You will be reporting to Software Engineering Director. You will spend much of your time with Software Engineers in Cloud Engineering and adjacent teams. You will also partner closely with other Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, Engineering Directors, and Product Managers in both foundational and business facing technology domains.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Minimum 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on cloud infrastructure engineering in an multi cloud ecosystem including architecture, deployment and management of enterprise cloud solutions.

5+ years of leadership experience, including at least 3 years at Manager level or equivalent, managing senior engineers and engineers in a GCC or distributed engineering model.





Demonstrated track record of building and retaining talent in a competitive engineering market; not just managing existing teams but growing them.

Experience co-owning a product or platform with a global counterpart, driving alignment on priorities, architectural decisions, and operating model without escalation dependency.Ability to mentor and guide a team of cloud engineers.

Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals including system design, testing, maintainable code, API design, and scalability

Ability to go deep in architecture and code reviews, challenge technical decisions credibly, and raise the engineering bar through firsthand engineering experience.

Hands on experience in cloud infrastructure automation using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation

Prior experience as a backend or platform engineer building APIs, services, workflows, and developer-facing systems not just managing infrastructure or vendor tools.

Experience building control plane or platform capabilities as software products, including orchestration, policy enforcement, entitlement workflows, and resource lifecycle management.

Fluency in modern software architecture : microservices, event-driven patterns, REST/GraphQL API design, domain-driven design, and security-by-design at the platform layer.

Strong coding background with the ability to design, review, and debug production-quality software in Python, Go, or Java.





Experience with implementing and integrating AI, Machine Learning to accelerate automation.

Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code and control-plane tooling, Crossplane, Terraform, CDK, or similar

Strong written and verbal communication across audiences

Agile / DevOps practitioner — experience running squads with CI/CD, SLO-based operations, and blameless post-mortems as standard practice, not aspirational goals.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a demonstrably equivalent technical background.

AWS Solutions Architect, Developer or Azure equivalent certification will be and added benefit.ior experience with cloud governance, entitlements, or policy systems - IAM/RBAC design, SCP/policy guardrails or similar at enterprise scale

Exposure to AI-assisted platform operations - AIOps or intelligent policy enforcement

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

Drive roadmap delivery, translating capability strategy into quarterly/ Sprint plans, measurable OKRs, and explicit trade-off decisions with stakeholders.

Day to day manage the team who is accountable for cloud entitlements and governance at scale: mature the access management, RBAC, and policy guardrail systems that govern Nike's multi-cloud footprint across AWS, Azure, Alicloud and GCP.

Embed AI-native practices : champion agentic and AI-assisted engineering patterns across your squads; identify where LLM and automation tooling can accelerate platform capabilities, not just developer productivity.

Operate as a platform owner, not just a delivery manager : hold engineering standards, define SLOs, drive operational excellence, and ensure the Management Plane is reliable, observable, and secure.

Bridge India based talent and global engineering : buil

📌 Manager Software Engineering, Itc (Karnataka)
🏢 Nike
📍 Karnataka