Senior Engineering Manager
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11 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Who we are
Were a leading global security authority thats disrupting our own category. Our encryption is trusted by the major ecommerce brands the worlds largest companies the major cloud providers entire country financial systems entire internets of things and even down to the little things like surgically embedded pacemakers. We help companies put trust - an abstract idea - to work. Thats digital trust for the real world.
Job summary
DigiCert DNS is revitalizing its engineering culture and adopting modern software design and delivery techniques. We are looking for intellectually passionate people who learn quickly thrive in a fast-paced environment and stay current with the latest technologies. We want people who fit our emerging Agile/Devops culture enjoy debating and learning from differing opinions and have a high level of engagement.
The Senior Manager of Engineering is responsible for leading multiple engineering teams to deliver high-quality scalable and secure software solutions. This role bridges strategic direction and technical executionaligning architecture product priorities and people management. The Senior Manager ensures engineering excellence through strong leadership process rigor and effective cross-functional collaboration with Product Architecture and Operations.
What you will do
Technical Leadership
- Drive technical strategy and roadmap execution across multiple products or platforms.
- Ensure architectural consistency scalability and operational resilience.
- Champion best practices in coding standards CI/CD observability and performance optimization.
- Collaborate with architects to guide modernization migrations and platform refactoring initiatives.
People & Team Management
- Lead mentor and grow a diverse set of engineers technical leads and managers.
- Define clear career paths performance expectations and feedback mechanisms.
- Foster a culture of innovation ownership and accountability.
- Balance workload across teams and ensure sustainable delivery velocity.
Delivery & Execution
- Partner with Product Management to define priorities scope and timelines.
- Oversee sprint planning release readiness and quality checkpoints.
- Manage delivery risk through proactive escalation and dependency management.
- Ensure teams adhere to SDLC standards documentation and compliance processes.
Operational Excellence
- Monitor key delivery metrics (velocity quality incident rates customer impact).
- Drive root cause analysis (RCAs) and continuous improvement post-mortems.
- Align closely with DevOps and SRE teams for availability scalability and performance goals.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work with Product Architecture Security and QA to ensure alignment between roadmap design and implementation.
- Represent engineering in stakeholder meetings and executive reviews.
- Translate business goals into actionable technical execution plans.
What you will have
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
- 10 years of overall software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a leadership role managing multiple teams.
- Proven experience with large-scale distributed systems cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and modern frameworks (e.g. Java Spring Boot React ).
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles.
- Excellent communication stakeholder management and conflict-resolution skills.
Nice to have
- Experience managing global or cross-geo teams.
- Prior background in platform engineering API-first systems or microservices architecture.
- Exposure to security compliance or regulated SaaS environments.
- Familiarity with AI/ML integrations or data-driven product development.
Key Competencies
- Strategic Thinking & Technical Vision.
- People Leadership & Mentoring.
- Delivery Excellence & Execution Focus.
- Stakeholder Influence & Communication.
- Continuous Improvement Mindset.
- Risk Management & Accountability.
Success Metrics
- On-time and high-quality delivery of roadmap commitments.
- Engineering team engagement and retention.
- Reduction in production incidents and MTTR.
- Cross-team collaboration effectiveness.
- Alignment of engineering outcomes with business OKRs.
Benefits
- Generous time off policies
- Top shelf benefits
- Education wellness and lifestyle support
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Data Center Experience
- ArcGIS
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Construction Estimating
- Go
- Mathcad
- React
- Redux
- AWS
- Software Development
- Auto Estimating
- Distributed Systems
About Company
DigiCert is the leading TLS/SSL Certificate Authority specializing in digital trust for the real world through PKI, IoT, DNS, Document & Software security solutions.
