Engineering Manager, Platform Team

About SecurityScorecard:

SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings with over 12 million companies continuously rated operating in 64 countries. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh and funded by world-class investors SecurityScorecards patented rating technology is used by over 25000 organizations for self-monitoring third-party risk management board reporting and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint.

Headquartered in New York City our culture has been recognized by Inc Magazine as a Best Workplace by Crains NY as a Best Places to Work in NYC and as one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in New York for two years in a row. Most recently SecurityScorecard was named to Fast Companys annual list of the Worlds Most Innovative Companies for 2023 and to the Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces in 2023 award recognizing forward-thinking employers for their unwavering commitment to employee engagement. SecurityScorecard is proud to be funded by world-class investors including Silver Lake Waterman Moodys Sequoia Capital GV and Riverwood Capital.

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager for our Platform team a strategic hands-on leader who will own the foundational systems that power our products. Youll lead a highly skilled team of backend infrastructure and full-stack engineers focused on building scalable services improving developer velocity and enabling teams to deliver great customer experiences. The role is based in AustinTX and requires you to work in our Austin office (currently close to UT Austin) 3 days per week.

This role is both people and technology-focused: youll coach and grow engineers while also guiding complex technical initiatives around micro-services architecture distributed systems infrastructure and automation.

What Youll Do:

Team Leadership & People Management

• Lead grow and coach a highly competent engineering team
• Create a culture of accountability ownership and continuous learning
• Develop individualized growth plans; care deeply about career development
• Lead by example and be a role model of our values:
• Own process and outcomes Be curious Be a leader

Technical Ownership

• Own the quality architecture and pace of delivery for the team
• Lead the design and development of scalable microservices and platform systems using technologies such as AWS and React
• Drive adoption of modern infrastructure: CI/CD containerization observability and cloud services
• Lead architectural and code reviews across the platform organization
• Translate business and R&D initiatives into actionable technical requirements choosing appropriate technologies and driving implementation
• Build systems that scale: distributed real-time data pipelines for low-latency decisioning
• Focus on automation & tooling to reduce toil and improve engineering efficiency

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Collaborate with product managers architects and stakeholders across teams to align priorities
  Maximize the teams impact by ensuring clarity focus and execution
• Advocate for platform capabilities that unlock product and engineering velocity

What Were Looking For:

Required Skills & Experience

• 12 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on backend systems and platform services
• 5 years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams
• Expertise in a modern programming language such as
• Strong systems design background with deep experience in performance scalability and reliability
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) distributed systems observability and DevOps practices
• Strong fundamentals in computer science (algorithms data structures operating systems networking)
• Proven success in mentoring engineers & delivering complex projects at scale
  Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to balance tradeoffs
  Strong communication skills both verbal and written and the ability to influence across disciplines

Our Tech Stack

• Programming Languages: Mainly Typescript / Javascript although sub systems use a variety of languages - Typescript React.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS Docker Terraform Jenkins
• Production Monitoring: Newrelic
• Database: Clickhouse PostgreSQL

Nice to Have

• Experience in cybersecurity threat intelligence or security-focused platforms
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (React) and full-stack engineering
• Experience building internal developer platforms or tools to improve productivity
• Prior work on high-scale systems handling large volumes of data

Benefits:

Specific to each country we offer a competitive salary stock options Health benefits and unlimited PTO parental leave tuition reimbursements and much more!

The estimated total compensation range for this position is $175000 - $225000 (base plus bonus). Actual compensation for the position is based on a variety of factors including but not limited to affordability skills qualifications and experience and may vary from the addition to base salary employees may also be eligible for annual performance-based incentive compensation awards and equity among other company benefits.

SecurityScorecard is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and embraces diversity. We believe that our team is strengthened through hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds skill sets ideas and perspectives. We make hiring decisions based on merit and do not discriminate based on race color religion national origin sex or gender (including pregnancy) gender identity or expression (including transgender status) sexual orientation age marital veteran disability status or any other protected category in accordance with applicable law.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability please contact

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