Engineering Manager

Role overview Lead a distributed engineering team responsible for building and scaling a secure software delivery platform for government environments. The role combines people management and technical direction, with a focus on dependable platform growth and delivery in a security-sensitive setting.

Responsibilities - Coach, support, and develop engineers; contribute to recruiting and onboarding as the team grows. - Guide work that improves platform scalability, reliability, and performance. - Coordinate with product, platform, and security partners to shape roadmaps, set priorities, and meet milestones. - Provide architectural guidance and ensure engineering decisions reflect sound practices and compliance needs. - Turn strategic goals into clear engineering plans, and improve team processes, tooling, and delivery practices.

Requirements - At least six years of professional software engineering experience, including two or more years leading or managing technical teams. - Experience leading distributed teams in a startup or high-growth environment. - Strong knowledge of modern software development, cloud infrastructure, and continuous integration and delivery; AWS and Kubernetes experience are specified. - Technical judgment, strategic thinking, and clear communication, with the ability to balance delivery and team development. - U.S. citizenship; ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance is preferred.

Nice to have - Experience scaling SaaS or platform products in regulated or security-sensitive fields. - Familiarity with secure development standards such as NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, or SOC 2; infrastructure as code, observability, and automation. - Experience leading cross-functional work with product, security, and operations teams, and improving agile practices.

Benefits and work setup Full-time, remote work is available to candidates based near one of these hubs: the DC/Maryland/Virginia area; Raleigh, Durham, or Chapel Hill; Denver or Colorado Springs; or Dallas/Fort Worth/Austin. The listed base salary is $210,000–$230,000, with potential discretionary bonuses and equity. Benefits include employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) contribution; wellness and family-planning resources; paid time off and federal holidays; parental leave; and technology and professional-development stipends.