Engineering Manager

Role overview

Lead a distributed engineering team building and scaling a secure software delivery platform for government environments. You will balance people leadership with technical oversight, guide execution across reliability and performance initiatives, and work with product, platform, and security partners to deliver against shared roadmaps.

Responsibilities

- Mentor and develop engineers, supporting a collaborative team culture and continuous improvement. - Drive initiatives that improve platform scalability, reliability, and performance. - Work with product, platform, and security teams to set priorities, define roadmaps, and deliver milestones. - Provide architectural guidance and ensure engineering decisions align with sound practices and compliance needs. - Turn organizational goals into actionable engineering plans with stakeholders. - Recruit and onboard engineers, and improve team processes, tools, and delivery practices as the organization grows.

Requirements

- At least six years of professional software engineering experience, including two or more years managing or leading technical teams. - Track record of leading distributed teams in a fast-growing or startup environment. - Strong understanding of modern software development, cloud infrastructure, and continuous integration and delivery. - Technical judgment, strategic thinking, and clear communication skills. - Ability to balance delivery, team development, and technical quality. - U.S. citizenship is required; ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance is preferred.

Nice to have

Experience with SaaS or platform products in regulated or security-sensitive settings; secure development frameworks; infrastructure as code, observability, or automation; and cross-functional work with product, security, and operations. Familiarity with agile methods and continuous improvement is also valued.

Benefits and work setup

The role is full time and may be performed virtually near an approved hiring hub in the Washington, D.C. region; the Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill area; Denver or Colorado Springs; or Dallas–Fort Worth or Austin. Listed benefits include health, vision, and dental coverage, a retirement plan contribution, equity incentives, stipends for equipment and professional development, flexible paid time off, holidays, and parental leave. Compensation may include discretionary bonuses or equity.