Development Manager

Sentrium

Development Manager overseeing software development initiatives for VyOS, an open-source network operating system. Leading teams and ensuring delivery meets product management standards.

Posted 7/8/2026contractRemote • 🇵🇱 PolandMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and mentor the Development teams.
Translate product requirements into engineering-internal development plans, task breakdowns, and backlog commitments, and ensure proper execution.
Management of bug triage and feature requests processes.
Ensure development work aligns with priorities defined by product management.
Track progress of tasks, epics, and releases, ensuring deadlines are met.
Identify blockers and ensure their timely resolution.
Provide regular updates on development status, risks, and timelines.
Ensure quality standards are met before release.
Coordinate work with the engineering: development, QA, and technical documentation across the team.
Manage the QA function for products.
Maintain development processes and improve execution efficiency.
Define and enforce best practices for coding, testing, and deployment.
Owns, maintains a backlog, and ensure is clean, actionable, and up to date.
Ensure the maintenance of team capacity, workload balance, engagement, and performance standards! And manage human resources to ensure they match the company’s needs.
Maintain a high level of engagement in the development department.
Ensure engineering deliverables meet release readiness criteria defined by the Senior Program Manager.
Ensure development compliance with applicable certification criteria.
Owns vulnerability response, security testing, and product security posture processes.
Measure technical debt, report, and take actions to reduce it.
Participate in the budgeting process.
Maintain the technical requests escalation management process.
Execution of the release process.
Owns DevOps/Release Engineering: CI/CD pipelines, build systems, release tooling, and infrastructure-as-code.
Sets technical standards for community contributions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong leadership and management capabilities.
Proficiency in development methodologies and practices.
Excellent problem-solving and risk-management skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Knowledge of software planning, development, debugging, and quality assurance processes.
Ability to optimize workflows and enhance team productivity.
5+ years of hands-on experience as a Development Manager or equivalent, with proven ownership of software development cycles, releases, and team management.
Experience leading distributed teams in a fully remote environment.
Experience with overseeing debugging, bug resolution, and quality assurance.
Background in networking, infrastructure, or cloud-based development is a must.
Hands-on experience with development processes' certification is a must.
Experience in open-source or open-core environments.
Experience in automation, AI, and task setting for Infrastructure, and Jira automation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully Remote Work: This 100% remote position allows you to work anywhere.
Flexible Work Schedule: We offer a flexible work schedule that allows you to manage your time while ensuring effective collaboration across our globally distributed teams.
Vacation: Enjoy 20 days of annual paid vacation
National Holidays: You are entitled to up to 10 days of paid leave for recognized national holidays.
Sick Leave: is provided in accordance with company policy

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software Development CyclesDebuggingTask BreakdownBacklog ManagementRisk ManagementTechnical Debt MeasurementAutomationInfrastructure ManagementOpen-Source EnvironmentsJira Automation

Soft Skills

Problem-SolvingWritten CommunicationVerbal Communication

Certifications

Development Processes Certification