Engineering Manager, Firewall Defense

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

📋 Description

• Lead the team responsible for validating the effectiveness and tuning of firewalls.

• Guide, mentor, and develop backend engineers and security professionals specializing in firewalls and defense strategies.

• Create distinct career advancement pathways for team members.

• Convert firewall workflows into actionable requirements and practical product features.

• Collaborate with a Staff-level Technical Lead on architectural decisions and coordinate with Product on project timelines and priorities.

• Transform vague objectives into structured, deliverable tasks while effectively managing project scope.

• Remain technically involved to challenge assumptions and facilitate team progress without being the main implementer.

• Establish operational protocols, including design reviews, release practices, on-call duties, and incident response strategies.

• Take ownership of recruitment, team development, and collaboration as the team expands.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong understanding of firewalls or network security to effectively engage with subject matter experts.

• Demonstrated experience in leading highly technical backend or platform engineering teams, preferably in a SaaS, cybersecurity, or cloud-scale setting.

• Proven history of delivering products by a set deadline despite ambiguous requirements and proactively managed scope.

• Excellent ability to manage dependencies and stakeholder interactions across multiple engineering teams.

• Knowledge of security and reliability best practices in multi-tenant SaaS environments.

• Experience collaborating with a staff-level technical lead.

• Capability to uphold quality or safety standards under time constraints and navigate scope trade-offs.

• Practical experience with enterprise firewall solutions such as Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Cisco, or Check Point (preferred).

• Familiarity with agentic or LLM-backed systems in operational settings (preferred).

• Background in security operations, detection engineering, or offensive security (preferred).

• Experience leading a platform team that supports internal engineering departments (preferred).

• Exposure to event-driven architectures or streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, or Flink (preferred).

• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time positions.

• Health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your family.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Generous parental leave.

• Opportunities for career development.

• An inclusive culture.

• A collaborative and innovative work environment.

• Remote and hybrid work options depending on the role and location.