Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Authentication

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

📋 Description

• Inspire and mentor engineering managers, senior engineers, and emerging technical leaders within the Authentication domain.

• Convert product and engineering strategies into a comprehensive technical roadmap, execution plan, and operational framework.

• Enhance the reliability, scalability, and operational performance of cloud-native, API-driven distributed systems.

• Ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across multiple simultaneous initiatives.

• Elevate standards for architecture, observability, testing, incident response, postmortems, and engineering methodologies.

• Collaborate with Product, Research, Security, Platform, and other engineering teams.

• Manage metrics related to delivery health, system performance, team effectiveness, and on-call sustainability.

• Serve as a senior technical escalation point during customer issues and production incidents.

• Guide the application of AI/ML-driven trust signals, model outputs, and automation in production.

• Promote accountability, inclusivity, learning, and composed execution under pressure.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8–12+ years of experience in software engineering, with substantial experience in building and operating distributed backend systems and APIs in production environments.

• 3–5+ years of experience in engineering leadership, including managing teams through other managers and/or senior technical leads.

• Deep technical knowledge in cloud-native architecture, microservices, observability, CI/CD, and contemporary engineering practices across AWS and/or GCP.

• Demonstrated success in enhancing reliability, execution, and engineering standards for customer-facing, high-availability systems.

• Practical backend experience with Go and/or Python.

• Strong comprehension of data storage and service design for low-latency systems.

• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Security, Support, Customer Success, and engineering teams.

• Experience in authentication, identity, fraud prevention, risk engines, or security-sensitive product domains is a plus.

• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, RBAC/ABAC, or related access protocols is a plus.

• Experience in productionizing model outputs, risk signals, or AI/ML capabilities is a plus.

• Experience managing multi-cloud services with on-call responsibilities and incident management is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) for all employees.

• Remote-first environment, providing flexibility and autonomy in your daily structure.

• Regular team on-sites, company-wide events, and purposeful gatherings.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Comprehensive health and welfare plans, including one employer-paid “employee-only” plan.

• Top-tier Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contribution.

• Affordable vision and dental plans for you and your family.

• Paid Parental Leave for birth, adoptive, and foster parents.

• One year of diaper delivery for your newest family member.

• Recurring monthly allowance for phone and internet expenses.

• Enhanced benefits for fertility and GLP-1 treatments.

• Annual Learning & Development stipend for professional growth, skill enhancement, certifications, and continued education.

• Eligibility for annual discretionary bonuses.