The Manager, Engineering, Secure Build and SCS Services will lead two high-impact engineering teams focused on secure software builds, supply-chain security, and developer infrastructure.
You will oversee team health, technical direction, delivery, operational excellence, and long-term talent development across distinct but connected technical domains.
The role sits at the intersection of build infrastructure, cloud services, distributed systems, software security, and developer tooling.
You will partner closely with Product, Security, Design, and other cross-functional stakeholders to shape strategy and prioritize competing roadmaps.
Success requires strong engineering judgment without the need to be the deepest technical expert in every language or system.
You will help teams balance innovation with production reliability, on-call responsibilities, inherited systems, and customer needs.
This is a remote-first leadership opportunity for an experienced engineering manager who thrives in a global, highly technical environment.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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