Senior Engineering Manager, (Python, Pen-testing, Nuclei)

Senior Engineering Manager, ASI

With 1,000 intelligence professionals, over $300M in sales, and serving over 1,800 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!

We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead and coordinate our cross-functional teams, ensuring the successful and timely delivery of our product initiatives. Your primary responsibility will be to manage cross-team product deliverables, ensuring that all team leads and members are able to work effectively to meet the company’s needs.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will oversee multiple established teams including:

• Scan Engine Development – Our proprietary network scanning engine that operates on a global scale to collect intelligence insights from everything on the internet
• Signature Development – Our team working in coordination with the Insikt Group to develop unique vulnerability and technology detections to fuel the scan engine
• Site Reliability and Product Operations – Our team responsible for ensuring that the above are generating and delivering intelligence to Recorded Future’s clients as needed

What you will do: 

• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor team leads and members across multiple engineering disciplines and geographies, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment
• Cross-Team Coordination: Coordinate closely with the Director of Engineering and peer Engineering Managers to establish scope, timelines, and solution designs
• Continuous Improvement: Drive the continuous improvement of engineering practices, processes, and tools to increase efficiency and product quality
• Ensuring Excellence: Drive the team to continuously design, develop, and deploy features with a focus on high availability, great quality, low latency, and scalability
• Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of product features and updates, ensuring alignment with company goals and timelines
• Agile Practices: Implement and maintain agile methodologies as appropriate via Jira and Confluence for project tracking and documentation
• Code Management: Oversee the use of GitHub and GitLab for code management, ensuring best practices are followed and that code quality is maintained

What you will bring: 

• At least 10 years of experience in software engineering, ideally in an Enterprise SaaS product.  
• At least 4 years in a management or leadership role, ideally overseeing multiple functions with remote teams in different timezones.
• Production-level development experience in Python, Go, or C.  Additional familiarity with Rust or Elixir is beneficial.
• Ideal candidates will have done this in a low-level, network-heavy application with a focus on high-volume traffic and availability.  
• Familiarity with key technologies such as message busses/queues (Kafka, Rabbit, etc.), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• An excitement for building dashboards, viewing and analyzing logs, and compiling metrics
• Extensive familiarity with the TCP/IP protocol stack, including application of concepts from DNS, WHOIS, and other artifacts needed for technical reconnaissance and discovery
• Experience in technical leadership such as leading project teams' development efforts and setting technical direction
• A passion for coaching others to grow their technology career and sharing good practices with more junior engineers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively advocate technical solutions to product, engineering, and business audiences
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent education/work experience

Preferred Qualifications :

• Any familiarity with cybersecurity principles and the unique challenges of developing cybersecurity products
• Any familiarity with things like portscanning, vulnerability scanning, or signature development
• Any familiarity with enterprise security products related to Recorded Future’s offerings