This role is central to the success of our engineering organization, combining hands-on technical leadership with people management excellence. You will directly manage a team of 6–12 engineers, ensuring high-quality delivery, fostering professional growth, and maintaining strong cross-functional collaboration. As a key member of the engineering leadership team, you will influence long-term technical strategy, improve team effectiveness, and uphold a culture of accountability, innovation, and inclusion. This position requires a balance of deep technical understanding, strong communication skills, and proven experience in managing complex delivery in regulated, high-stakes environments.
Responsibilities
- Ensure timely and high-quality delivery by monitoring project progress, identifying roadblocks early, and escalating risks with actionable recommendations.
- Facilitate agile ceremonies tailored to team needs, including sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and reviews.
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports to track performance, career goals, and development needs.
- Manage full-cycle performance processes, including developing high performers and addressing underperformance with clear documentation.
- Participate in hiring by sourcing candidates, conducting interviews, and contributing to offer decisions with well-reasoned justifications.
- Support quarterly and long-term planning by assessing team capacity, identifying dependencies, and highlighting sequencing risks.
- Maintain technical visibility through pull request reviews, architecture discussions, and escalation of critical technical issues.
- Enforce quality standards in code reviews, testing, documentation, and incident follow-up.
- Collaborate with product and project managers to align on priorities and communicate realistic team capacity.
- Work with engineering leadership on team structure, headcount, career leveling, and defining excellence for individual contributors.
- Identify systemic engineering challenges across teams and lead initiatives to improve processes, tooling, and onboarding.
- Refine hiring practices by shaping interview design, calibration, and debrief processes to ensure consistency.
- Advocate for engineering investments such as improved CI/CD pipelines and developer tools by presenting impact and cost analysis.
- Communicate technical constraints clearly to non-technical stakeholders to inform business decisions without oversimplification.
- Model core cultural values including intellectual honesty, direct communication, accountability, and genuine support for team members.
Requirements
- At least four years of experience managing software engineering teams of five or more engineers in a product-focused environment.
- Professional background as a software engineer with strong judgment about code quality, system complexity, and technical risk.
- Experience using AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot or Claude Code in daily workflows, aligned with modern agentic engineering practices.
- Proven success in advancing engineers' careers, with specific examples of identifying skill gaps and guiding growth.
- Experience managing multi-quarter delivery commitments, including tracking, communication, and course correction when plans change.
- Strong technical decision-making ability, particularly in architecture reviews and identifying flawed reasoning behind technical choices.
- Prior experience leading teams building security-critical, reliability-critical, or infrastructure-related systems.
- Demonstrated success managing distributed teams in a remote-first setting.
- Excellent written communication skills, essential for leadership in a fully remote organization.
- Must have authorization to work in the US; comprehensive background checks are required for all hires.
Nice to Have
- Experience at a company with a security-first product or serving regulated industries such as defense, healthcare, or financial services.
- Familiarity with compliance standards like SOC 2, FedRAMP, or IEC 62443, particularly understanding their impact on team resourcing and workflow.
Tech Stack
GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% premium coverage for employees.
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO) with minimum usage expectations to encourage rest and well-being.
- Company-wide winter and summer shutdowns to support work-life balance.
- Annual learning and development stipend for conferences, courses, and certifications.
- Equity compensation package aligned with seniority and impact.
- Home office setup reimbursement and ongoing remote work support.
Compensation
Competitive base salary with equity compensation; total compensation package aligned with experience and performance.
Work Arrangement
Remote-first with team members distributed across the US; occasional travel for team meetups may be required.
Team
You will lead a team of 6–12 engineers responsible for building and maintaining security-critical systems. The team works closely with product management, security, and compliance stakeholders, and operates with high autonomy and accountability. Engineering culture emphasizes technical excellence, continuous improvement, and psychological safety.
Additional Information
- All employees undergo a comprehensive background check as part of the hiring process.
- This role requires US work authorization due to security and compliance requirements.
- We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applications from underrepresented groups in tech.
