Senior Manager, Engineering

Accountabilities

• Engineering Team Leadership: Lead and manage a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining a shared security and secrets management platform. Provide technical guidance, establish priorities, and create an environment that encourages collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Technical Strategy and Architecture: Own the team's technical direction and contribute to architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with long-term product objectives.
• Platform Development: Oversee the development of secure software components, developer-friendly SDKs, and cloud services that enable applications and AI agents to access required credentials without exposing sensitive information.
• Product and Business Alignment: Partner closely with Product Management to translate business objectives and customer needs into technical roadmaps, development priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Security and other engineering teams to establish consistent security practices, facilitate platform adoption, and make the shared secrets platform the preferred solution across products.
• Security and Risk Management: Maintain high security standards by participating in design reviews, developing threat models, and ensuring robust authentication, authorization, secrets management, and isolation mechanisms.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure predictable delivery, system reliability, and operational efficiency. Oversee the team's on-call rotation, incident response processes, reliability reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Talent Acquisition and Development: Recruit, hire, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering professionals, particularly senior individual contributors. Support career development, provide regular feedback, and strengthen team performance.
• Stakeholder Communication: Facilitate communication across teams, provide clear project updates, and report on the progress, risks, and delivery of critical initiatives.
• Customer Engagement: Maintain close connections with customers and internal stakeholders to understand adoption challenges, gather feedback, and ensure that security solutions deliver practical value without compromising usability.
• Platform Adoption and Growth: Drive the long-term development and adoption of the platform across multiple products, ensuring it becomes an essential component of secure development and AI-powered workflows.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience managing high-performing software engineering teams, with a demonstrated ability to develop, motivate, and retain technical talent.
• At least 5 years of hands-on engineering experience building secure software applications and scalable cloud services.
• Strong technical understanding of security fundamentals, including authentication, authorization, secrets and key management, and threat modeling.
• Experience designing and implementing secure systems that protect sensitive credentials and information across complex technical environments.
• Solid understanding of isolation mechanisms, security boundaries, and the challenges associated with running untrusted or semi-trusted workloads.
• Proven experience developing platforms, SDKs, shared services, or infrastructure products adopted by multiple engineering teams.
• Familiarity with enterprise security requirements, including auditability, access policies, governance, and compliance considerations.
• Strong architectural judgment and the ability to guide engineering teams toward scalable, reliable, and secure technical solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with Product Management, Security, and cross-functional engineering stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and communicate priorities clearly.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and organizational skills, with the ability to support senior engineers and build effective distributed teams.
• A high degree of autonomy, accountability, and adaptability, particularly within a remote-first organization operating across multiple time zones.
• A customer-oriented mindset and the ability to balance strong security principles with practical developer experience and product adoption.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: Annual base salary ranging from CA$276,050 to CA$441,650 for candidates based in Canada, depending on experience, qualifications, skills, and location.
• Equity Participation: Equity grants for all full-time employees, providing an opportunity to participate in the organization's long-term growth and success.
• Remote-First Work Environment: Fully remote working arrangements, with offices available in Seattle and Paris for collaboration and team connection.
• Flexible Working Hours: Autonomy to organize your schedule and manage your work while meeting team and business objectives.
• Generous Paid Time Off: Comprehensive PTO allowance to support personal time, rest, and work-life balance.
• Wellness Days: Dedicated quarterly wellness days and an additional end-of-year wellness break.
• Home Office Support: Financial support to create a comfortable, efficient, and productive home working environment.
• Technology Stipend: Monthly technology allowance equivalent to US$100 net to support work-related needs.
• Learning and Development: Annual professional development budget covering conferences, courses, certifications, and other learning opportunities.
• Paid Parental Leave: Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical coverage, retirement benefits, and paid public holidays, with specific provisions varying by country.
• Additional Perks: Exclusive company merchandise and opportunities to connect with a globally distributed engineering community.
• Visa Sponsorship: Visa sponsorship may be considered on a case-by-case basis, depending on business requirements.