Software Development Manager (Technical)

Job summary

We are building DigiCerts AI Security & Trust Infrastructure team a small fast-moving engineering group that delivers enterprise-grade trust and security capabilities at startup speed. As a hands-on leader you will lead 68 engineers to design and build distributed systems that publish validate and enforce trust signals across AI models agents repositories and connected devices. You will bring a strong understanding of backend infrastructure and DevOps engineering disciplines enabling you to guide architectural decisions coach engineers and deliver scalable reliable systems. This role blends technical depth architectural ownership and delivery velocity leading by example in building production-grade secure and observable services.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor engineers to ship secure production-grade featuresin fast iterative releases.
• Architect and review distributed microservices data flows and event-driven pipelines that scale globally.
• Guide implementation of streaming and messaging systems(Kafka NATS or equivalent) and data layer design (SQL/NoSQL caching consistency patterns).
• Oversee and participate in development of CI/CD automation IaC and observability tooling.
• Define system SLOs availability and performance targets ensuring high reliability and resilience.
• Establish and enforce AI-accelerated engineering practicesthat enhance velocity while maintaining clarity and security.
• Partner with product and enterprise stakeholders to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure the team practices end-to-end ownership design implementation deployment monitoring and incident response.
• Foster a high-velocity low-friction delivery culturethrough blameless postmortems technical debt transparency and measurable progress.

Key Performance Indicators

• Code Delivery:Commit-to-deploy average <3 days.
• Feature Velocity:At least one production feature or improvement per engineer per sprint.
• System Reliability:99.9% SLO adherence <24h mean rollback recovery.
• Predictability:90% sprint predictability with consistent delivery throughput.

What you will have

• 8 yearsin software engineering with 2 years leading distributed or SaaS engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing distributed backend systemsusing Go Python or Rust.
• Proven ability to architect microservices-based event-driven applicationsat scale.
• Deep understanding of streaming platforms (Kafka NATS or equivalent)and data layer design(Postgres Redis DynamoDB or similar).
• Strong grasp of DevOps fundamentals Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD pipelines observability and incident response.
• Experience building multi-tenant architectureswith security compliance and reliability in mind.
• Familiarity with AI-accelerated development practices improving team output with intelligent tooling and automation.
• Excellent systems thinking technical judgment and ability to balance velocity with operational excellence.
• Knowledge of security and trust systems(TLS PKI DANE DNSSEC) is highly desirable.

Engineering Culture Commitments

• Deliver fast deliver safely:speed and quality coexist through automation and observability.
• Own the full stack:from design to deployment monitoring and improvement.
• Automate relentlessly:eliminate manual steps across testing delivery and recovery.
• AI-assisted human-led:use intelligent tools for speed but rely on human judgment for design and rigor.
• Neutral and interoperable:everything built integrates cleanly with any ecosystem.

Benefits

DigiCert offers a competitive benefits package for all of our full-time employees.

DigiCert is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in its compliance with applicable federal and state laws DigiCert prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity religion color national origin sex age sexual orientation gender identity/expression veterans status status as a qualified person with a disability or genetic information. Individuals from historically underrepresented groups such as minorities women qualified person with disabilities and protected veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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