Engineering Manager

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. Manage, coach, and grow senior and staff engineers through 1:1s, feedback, and performance and promotion decisions .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing and growing engineering teams, with a focus on delivering production systems and maintaining compliance with SOC 2 standards. Proficient in strategic planning, incident response, and leveraging AI tools to enhance engineering processes.

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Team ManagementIncident ResponseSoftware EngineeringSOC 2 ComplianceGo Programming

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringIncident ResponseTeam ManagementPlanning and PrioritizationBackend SystemsDistributed SystemsAI ToolingCode Review StandardsDeployment ProcessesTesting Standards

Soft Skills

Strong Written CommunicationCoachingProblem SolvingFeedback DeliveryAdaptability

Tools & Technologies

AWSGoB2B SaaSServices Architecture

Industry Keywords

SOC 2SecurityIdentityFraudEngineering Leadership

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage, coach, and grow senior and staff engineers through 1:1s, feedback, and performance and promotion decisions
Set expectations, address problems early, protect team focus and standards
Develop career paths and stretch opportunities
Run planning and execution so the team ships predictably
Make and communicate tradeoffs among speed, quality, and scope
Unblock work and escalate issues when needed
Own reliability, on-call, and incident response
Drive postmortems and improve processes after incidents
Maintain SOC 2, customer commitments, and secure development lifecycle obligations
Partner with product and design on sequenced, buildable roadmaps
Represent engineering to customers, prospects, and executives in technical discussions
Translate customer needs into viable architectural plans
Own engineering hiring, including sourcing, interview design, calibration, and closing
Design team structure and ownership boundaries as the organization grows
Set standards for code review, testing, deployment, documentation, and architectural decision records
Define responsible use of AI tooling in engineering
Improve build, test, deploy, and developer experience

Requirements

What you’ll need

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future need for visa sponsorship
3+ years managing software engineers, including senior and staff-level ICs, with a track record of shipping production systems
Strong engineering background, including building and operating backend or distributed systems at scale
Ability to hold your own in a design review
Experience owning delivery for a team, including planning, prioritization, and accountability for outcomes
Experience running on-call and incident response for a production system with real availability expectations
Demonstrated hiring success, including building an interview process
Comfort operating at startup scope with ambiguous problems and shifting priorities
Strong written communication
Experience in security, identity, fraud, or infrastructure-adjacent B2B SaaS
Experience with Go, AWS, and a services architecture
Experience scaling an engineering organization through a growth stage
Experience with SOC 2 or similar compliance regimes as an engineering leader
Point of view, informed by practice, on how AI coding tools change engineering process and quality

Benefits

Comp & perks

Meaningful equity ownership
Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
Flexible paid time off
Quarterly team off-sites and travel support
New computer hardware and equipment
Flexible schedules; work in your own time zone
Remote-first work from anywhere in the US
Regular in-person team collaboration and quarterly off-sites