Engineering Team Lead – Email Security

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee the development and management of CloudLinux’s email security product line, which includes inbound anti-spam filtering and outbound SMTP gateway services.

• Transform the product backlog into a structured engineering plan that includes estimates, dependencies, and a dependable release schedule.

• Conduct weekly planning sessions, readiness reviews for releases, and provide quantitative status updates.

• Take responsibility for engineering quality gates associated with detection-model releases, such as catch-rate and false-positive metrics, as well as rollback strategies.

• Ensure technical debt is visible, funded, and included in the roadmap.

• Provide weekly updates on delivery status and risks to engineering leadership.

• Collaborate with the architecture team to manage the email-stack architecture, which includes design evaluations, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and decisions regarding build versus buy.

• Analyze critical-path code and designs related to mail flow, rate limiting, quarantine, and authentication.

• Establish standards for testing, observability, and safe deployment practices.

• Maintain oversight of production health, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), alerting mechanisms, capacity management, and deliverability of sending infrastructure.

• Serve as the incident commander, coordinating remediation efforts, informing partners, and writing post-mortem reports within a 24-hour timeframe.

• Guide a distributed team through one-on-one meetings, goal-setting initiatives, performance evaluations, and career development activities.

• Recruit, interview, onboard, and mentor engineering talent.

• Create agreements for asynchronous work and ensure durable written communication.

• Exemplify and coach the effective use of coding agents and AI-assisted engineering methodologies.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner to prioritize tasks and address scope versus capacity challenges.

• Manage the release train, on-call duties, incident command, reliability risks, and technical roadmap during the initial 90 days.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a software engineer.

• At least 2 years in a leadership role overseeing a team of engineers within a product-oriented company.

• Strong practical experience with Linux systems.

• Proficient in reading and reviewing production code written in Go and/or Python.

• Capable of debugging live systems directly on-site.

• Proven experience in shipping and managing a distributed backend service under actual production conditions.

• Experience in carrying a pager and handling incident management.

• Quick to master complex technical domains and make credible architectural choices.

• Practical understanding of observability and data tools, such as Grafana, Kibana/Elasticsearch, Redash, or similar platforms.

• Demonstrated leadership in people management, including conducting one-on-ones, performance discussions, hiring, and mentoring engineers.

• Experience with agentic or AI-assisted development workflows, or a strong desire to lead such initiatives.

• Professional proficiency in both written and spoken English.

• Availability to work during EU hours.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with SMTP, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, rDNS, IP reputation, warm-up strategies, RBLs, and feedback mechanisms.

• Nice to have: Experience with Rspamd, SpamAssassin, Postfix, Exim, Halon, cPanel/WHM, or other control panel systems.

• Nice to have: Understanding of the ML model lifecycle, training data quality, evaluation metrics, and tuning of detection systems.

• Nice to have: Experience in managing incidents and escalations with external partners.

🏝️ Benefits

• Emphasis on professional growth and development.

• Engaging and challenging project opportunities.

• Fully remote work environment with flexible hours—set your schedule and work from anywhere in the world.

• Paid vacation of 24 days per year.

• 10 national holidays.

• Unlimited sick leave policy.

• Compensation for private health insurance.

• Reimbursement for co-working expenses.

• Gym and sports membership reimbursement.

• Educational budget allocation.

• Opportunity to earn a reward for the most innovative idea eligible for patenting by the company.