Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the Data Collection team in developing and managing systems that discover, scan, and aggregate Internet data.

• Take ownership of people leadership, technical planning, delivery, and operational excellence.

• Collaborate with Product, Research, Security, Infrastructure, and engineering teams on significant investments.

• Mentor, coach, and nurture Scanner Engineers and Distributed Systems Engineers.

• Establish standards for accountability, quality, teamwork, delivery, and operational duties.

• Develop growth strategies, delegate responsibilities, and oversee hiring, onboarding, and performance evaluations.

• Outline the Data Collection roadmap and align priorities with measurable results.

• Manage project scope, dependencies, staffing, and associated risks.

• Oversee major projects from initial discovery through to production delivery.

• Direct architectural decisions regarding scanning, orchestration, protocol implementations, distributed services, ingestion pipelines, APIs, and operational tools.

• Set standards for design, testing, rollout safety, observability, service ownership, and operational readiness.

• Ensure system quality, availability, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Establish metrics for scan execution, pipeline health, data freshness, protocol coverage, failure rates, and resource utilization.

• Promote sustainable on-call and incident management practices.

• Identify architectural bottlenecks and technical debt while prioritizing recommendations.

• Enhance operational visibility, service ownership, incident management, technical debt resolution, and delivery predictability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of three years of engineering management or team leadership experience.

• Proven history of leading a significant technical initiative from planning to production delivery.

• Previous experience as a software or systems engineer responsible for building and operating production systems.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and networking essentials, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, and TLS.

• Experience with data-intensive systems such as streaming services, ingestion pipelines, message queues, databases, schedulers, or high-throughput APIs.

• Experienced in managing critical systems in production, including monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability enhancement.

• Technical expertise to engage in architecture discussions, evaluate implementation risks, and facilitate complex incident analyses.

• Demonstrated ability to develop engineers through coaching, feedback, and delegation.

• Excellent project management and communication skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Remote employees must reside within the continental United States.

• Candidates receiving an offer must undergo identity verification through CLEAR.

• Candidates are required to keep cameras on during video interviews.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for bonuses / annual bonus plan for qualified non-sales positions.

• Equity opportunities.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.

• Retirement plan with company contributions.

• Parental leave policy.

• Mental health and wellness programs.

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Professional development allowance.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

• In-person onboarding at headquarters in Ann Arbor for new hires.