Lead Software Engineer, ITC

This role is for a lead software engineer to lead the layer responsible for multi-cloud access and entitlement management, account lifecycle, resource attribution, cloud governance and policy guardrails, and cloud economics including unit-cost optimization. It is a high-ownership, high-visibility, hands-on engineering leadership role, not a coordination role. The engineer will report to the Software Engineering Manager and collaborate closely with Software Engineers in Cloud Engineering and adjacent teams, as well as with Leads, Principal Engineers, Engineering Directors, and Product Managers across foundational and business-facing technology domains.

• Lead and grow one or two engineering squads, set technical direction, design, develop, operate, and integrate Nike's Cloud Infra Engineering solutions with partner platforms and applications.
• Drive roadmap delivery, translating capability strategy into quarterly/sprint plans, measurable OKRs, and clear trade-off decisions with stakeholders.
• Provide day-to-day technical direction to the team accountable for cloud entitlements and governance at scale, maturing access management, RBAC, and policy guardrail systems across Nike's multi-cloud footprint (AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, GCP).
• Embed AI-native practices by championing agentic and AI-assisted engineering patterns across squads and identifying where LLM and automation tooling can accelerate platform capabilities.
• Operate as a platform owner, holding engineering standards, defining SLOs, driving operational excellence, and ensuring the Management Plane is reliable, observable, and secure.
• Bridge India-based talent and global engineering by building tight co-ownership partnerships with US-based counterparts, ensuring the Bangalore team is a first-class engineering hub focused on value delivery and engineering excellence.
• Contribute to talent planning and build a high-performance, inclusive engineering culture within the team and organisation.

• Minimum 9+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on cloud infrastructure engineering in a multi-cloud ecosystem including architecture, deployment and management of enterprise cloud solutions.
• 3+ years of leadership experience including leading senior engineers and engineers in a GCC or distributed engineering model.
• Experience co-owning a product or platform with a global counterpart, driving alignment on priorities, architectural decisions, and operating models 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 front-end web application technologies (JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, React, other UI frameworks etc.).
• 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.

• AWS Developer or Azure equivalent certification will be an added benefit.

• Bangalore, India