About the job
Tigera is at the forefront of network security and observability, providing Calico—a unified platform designed to prevent, detect, and mitigate security breaches within Kubernetes clusters. Our open-source solution, Calico Open Source, stands as the most widely adopted container networking and security solution in the market.
With over 100 million containers powered across more than 8 million nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions. Industry leaders such as Discover, Chipotle, NBCUniversal, HanseMerkur, Box, Siemens Healthineers, Playtech, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bell Canada trust our technology.
As our team expands, we seek individuals who share our passion for innovation and growth, and who will contribute to maintaining Tigera as an exceptional workplace. Our core values emphasize customer focus, high aspirations coupled with agility, continuous learning, and a culture of respect, collaboration, and support.
If you are eager to make a significant impact and resonate with our values and vision for career development, we would love to connect!
About Your Role
We are in search of a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead our Calico Cloud and AI engineering team. In this pivotal role, you will manage a talented team of software engineers and AI/ML developers as we evolve our SaaS platform and lead our transition into autonomous AI agents.
Your collaboration with Product Management and cross-functional teams will be essential to defining roadmaps, prioritizing initiatives, and delivering features that exceed customer expectations while solidifying Tigera’s global leadership in Kubernetes networking and observability. You will cultivate a culture of high performance and innovation while fostering a healthy team environment and mentoring engineers in their professional development.
This hands-on leadership position requires deep engagement with technical decisions, participation in architectural discussions, and maintaining technical fluency to assist your team and guide system design.
This role operates in a hybrid model based in Vancouver.

