Manager, Engineering, Secure Build and SCS Services

Accountabilities:

• • Lead the Secure Build and SCS Services teams, taking ownership of delivery, team health, professional growth, performance, hiring, retention, and operational excellence across both groups.
  • Build a coherent portfolio plan across two distinct roadmaps, making priorities, capacity, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies explicit while ensuring neither team becomes a secondary priority.
  • Partner with Product and other stakeholders to shape strategy and roadmaps spanning secure build infrastructure, developer security services, hardened software artifacts, and connected platform capabilities.
  • Stay sufficiently close to technical work to contribute meaningfully to architecture discussions, design and code reviews, production incidents, and selected hands-on initiatives where leadership involvement provides additional leverage.
  • Guide technical direction collaboratively with Staff and senior engineers while maintaining clear decision ownership and avoiding unnecessary micromanagement.
  • Establish strong interfaces between the teams, including service contracts, trust boundaries, data quality, versioning, operational ownership, and customer-facing failure handling.
  • Balance product delivery with reliability investments, inherited systems, on-call responsibilities, observability, and initiatives that reduce recurring operational pain.
  • Coach and develop engineers, address performance challenges directly, build succession depth, and create an environment where senior technical talent can expand its impact.
  • Coordinate effectively with Product, Design, Security, content, registry, platform, sales, support, commercial, and legal stakeholders while protecting engineering teams from unnecessary churn.
  • Promote disciplined use of AI-assisted engineering practices and communicate priorities, decisions, risks, and progress clearly across European and US working hours.
  • During the first 30 days, build relationships across both teams, understand their products and production environments, and map dependencies, trust boundaries, and ownership.
  • Within the first 90 days, establish a sustainable operating cadence, leadership coverage, portfolio plan, capacity allocation, and clear escalation paths while initiating meaningful improvements for both teams.
  • Over the first year, help both teams deliver predictably, strengthen secure-build and security capabilities, improve customer outcomes, and establish sustainable operational ownership.

  Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience managing high-performing engineering teams, with meaningful responsibility across multiple teams or distinct technical domains.
  • At least 8 years of professional hands-on software engineering experience in backend engineering, infrastructure, platforms, developer tooling, or related areas.
  • Demonstrated experience leading, developing, hiring, and retaining experienced engineers, including managing teams you did not originally build and handling challenging performance situations.
  • A leader-first management approach combined with sufficiently current technical judgment to participate credibly in design and architecture discussions across unfamiliar systems.
  • Strong experience prioritizing competing roadmaps, operational demands, stakeholder commitments, and engineering capacity.
  • Solid understanding of backend and distributed systems, including APIs, event-driven architectures, data stores, cloud-native infrastructure, and production operations.
  • Experience with CI or build-system concepts, containers, artifact workflows, and a strong interest in software supply-chain security, trust boundaries, and secure infrastructure.
  • Experience leading teams responsible for production systems, including on-call operations, incident response, observability, service-level objectives, and reliability improvement.
  • Strong product judgment and a track record of shaping roadmaps collaboratively with Product rather than simply executing predefined requirements.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, cross-functional influence, customer orientation, and the ability to lead effectively across European and US time zones.
  • Helpful but not required: experience with Go, Clojure, Kafka, Spanner, Datomic, OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, GitHub Actions, sandboxing, microVMs, multi-tenant infrastructure, or comparable technologies.
  • Familiarity with software supply-chain security concepts and technologies such as SLSA, in-toto, SBOMs, VEX, Sigstore, cosign, provenance, signing, or vulnerability scanning is advantageous.
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems while simultaneously delivering new capabilities for developer tools, security products, regulated customers, or software-agent workflows is a plus.
  • Ability to work effectively in a remote-first environment with strong autonomy, accountability, adaptability, and organizational judgment.
  • Visa sponsorship may be considered on a case-by-case basis depending on business needs.

  Benefits:

  • Competitive US compensation: $174,900–$282,700 annually, plus equity.
  • Remote-first work environment with flexibility to work from home.
  • Access to offices in Seattle and Paris for collaboration and connection.
  • Flexible scheduling designed to support different working styles and personal needs.
  • Generous paid time off, quarterly Whaleness Days, and an end-of-year Whaleness break.
  • Home-office support to help create a comfortable and productive workspace.
  • Technology stipend: equivalent to US$100 net per month.
  • Annual learning and development stipend covering conferences, courses, certifications, and other professional development.
  • Paid parental leave: 16 weeks after six months of employment.
  • Equity opportunities for full-time employees.
  • Comprehensive medical and retirement benefits, with benefits varying by country.
  • Paid holidays.
  • Company merchandise and swag.
  • Inclusive and collaborative environment with opportunities to work alongside globally distributed engineering teams.