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Engineering Manager Rapid Response Assignment

You will lead and develop distributed engineering teams across the US, UK, and APAC. You will prioritize urgent customer and pre-sales needs alongside maintenance work, establish incident and escalation processes, uphold engineering quality, and coordinate plans with Product, Sales, and Customer Success.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and grow engineering teams across the US, UK, and APAC
  • Prioritize urgent pre-sales requests, customer issues, feature requests, and backend maintenance work
  • Ensure continuous follow-the-sun coverage across time zones
  • Translate customer and deal-critical needs into engineering plans
  • Integrate customer-driven work into the broader platform roadmap
  • Set engineering quality standards and drive long-term fixes
  • Drive hiring, onboarding, and performance management
  • Establish on-call, escalation, and incident response processes
  • Report on team health, throughput, and customer outcomes
  • Remove blockers and make technical decisions under pressure

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience managing software engineers
  • Experience in cybersecurity, vulnerability management, or threat intelligence
  • Prior experience as a senior or staff software engineer
  • Experience managing customer-facing, support, sustaining, or reliability engineering teams
  • Experience prioritizing urgent customer issues, pre-sales requests, and maintenance work
  • Experience managing teams across multiple time zones and regions
  • Understanding of backend systems, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience with data pipelines, ETL systems, or high-volume data processing

Benefits

  • Flexible time off
  • Retirement or pension plan contributions
  • Healthcare coverage
  • Paid parental leave
  • Remote work flexibility
  • Home office cost support for phone and internet

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