Senior Manager, Engineering

Accountabilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining a shared Secrets platform, defining its technical direction and priorities.
• Partner with Product Management to align engineering goals, roadmaps, and delivery with broader business and product objectives.
• Drive adoption of the platform across internal product teams, influencing stakeholders and establishing it as the preferred solution for secure credential management.
• Ensure predictable delivery, operational excellence, and platform reliability, including ownership of the team's on-call rotation and incident response.
• Maintain high standards for security and engineering quality, collaborating with Security teams on design reviews, threat modeling, and architectural decisions.
• Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing engineering talent, with a focus on growing senior individual contributors.
• Build strong relationships across teams, facilitate effective communication, and provide clear status updates on critical initiatives.
• Establish team goals and success measures, improve workflows, remove blockers, and contribute technical guidance to roadmap decisions.
• Oversee the delivery of key platform features and drive long-term improvements in scalability, security, and adoption.
• Stay connected to customer needs and ensure that security capabilities are practical, accessible, and widely adopted.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building secure software and scalable cloud services.
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals, including authentication, authorization, secrets and key management, and threat modeling.
• Experience evaluating isolation models and security boundaries for untrusted or semi-trusted workloads.
• Background building platforms, SDKs, or shared services adopted by multiple engineering teams.
• Familiarity with enterprise platform requirements, including auditability, governance, and policy enforcement.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to guide architectural decisions while remaining engaged with engineering execution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and collaborate across functions.
• Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain experienced engineering talent.
• Comfortable working independently with a high degree of autonomy in a remote-first, globally distributed environment, including collaboration across time zones.
• Ability to balance technical depth, team development, customer needs, and delivery priorities.

Benefits

• Annual base salary (United States): $197,650–$318,450, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
• Equity participation for all full-time employees.
• Remote-first work environment, with offices in Seattle and Paris available for connection and collaboration.
• Flexible scheduling and autonomy in managing your workday.
• Generous paid time off, quarterly wellness days, and a designated end-of-year wellness break.
• Home office support to help create a productive workspace.
• Monthly technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net.
• Annual learning and development stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued education.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
• Comprehensive medical and retirement benefits, with coverage and plan details varying by country.
• Paid holidays, subject to local arrangements.
• Company merchandise and team swag.
• Visa sponsorship may be considered on a case-by-case basis according to business needs.