Engineering Manager

Team: SECURE

Location: Flexible - USA

Commitment: Regular - Full Time

Workplace Type: remote

What you will do

• Team Leadership: Reporting to the Senior Director Engineering you will build, mentor, and lead a high-performing development team for Sysdig's next-generation Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) product.
• Execution & Delivery: Communicate team priorities, define development tasks aligned with broader organizational goals, and own the planning and tracking of sprint deliverables.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Drive high-visibility, company-level strategic initiatives across the organization, aligning product, security, and infrastructure teams to push projects across the finish line.
• Dependency & Constraint Navigation: Masterfully manage complex cross-team dependencies, mitigating timeline shifts and engineering bandwidth constraints without sacrificing quality.
• Customer & Stakeholder Diplomacy: Act as a key technical touchpoint for stakeholders and customers, managing expectations transparently when requirements, timelines, or scopes wiggle.
• Next-Gen AI Workflows: Champion and scale our transition into a purely Claude Code-based development workflow, driving team adoption of AI-native engineering for rapid feature development, refactoring, and code comprehension.
• AI-Driven Automation: Architect and implement automated pipelines using Claude Code for autonomous testing, continuous maintenance, code review assists, and boilerplate generation to significantly boost team velocity.
• Architecture & Design: Guide the design of multitenant, cloud-native data processing microservices for high resiliency and performance.
• Hands-on Engagement: Stay close to the metal by reviewing code developed by the team and jumping in with hands-on coding when necessary to unblock milestones.
  People Development: Conduct performance reviews, provide routine coaching, and set individual expectations that balance personal career ambition with organizational goals.

What you will bring with you

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years of experience directly managing or leading software engineering teams in distributed system environments.
• Cross-Functional Track Record: Proven experience leading initiatives that span multiple departments, with a knack for unblocking bottlenecks and driving execution across matrixed organizations.
• Rigor under Constraints: Exceptional project management and scoping skills; ability to maintain delivery rigor despite shifting variables, resource constraints, and competing corporate priorities.
• Stakeholder Communication: Experience communicating updates and resolutions clearly, with the ability to navigate sensitive customer commitments and setting realistic, data-backed expectations.
• AI-Native Engineering: Experience pioneering AI-assisted engineering, specifically utilizing Claude Code (or similar LLM-driven command-line interfaces/agents) to automate development, debugging, and operational workflows.
• DevOps & Delivery: Proven track record of defining modern development best practices, with a heavy focus on advanced DevOps, continuous production delivery, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Technical Domain Expertise:
  – Solid understanding of designing scalable, high-performance, event-driven, and streaming data-processing microservices.
  – Experience building high-availability, fault-tolerant platforms and reusable cloud components.
  – Hands-on experience with at least one public cloud environment (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerized environments using Kubernetes and cloud native technologies.
  – High proficiency in software development using one or more core languages (e.g., Golang, Java, .NET, C#).
  Industry Context: Experience or strong interest in cloud-native cybersecurity, specifically Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP).
• Experience building and leading cross functional teams at major cloud providers such as AWS, GCP is a major plus.
• You will spend less time on organizational overhead and more time actively leading forward deployed engineering teams, unblocking cross-functional dependencies, driving delivery rigor, and personally spearheading the squad’s shift into Claude Code AI workflows.

What we look for

• An inspiring engineering leader who is passionate about solving problems in complex distributed systems.
• An execution mindset that brings the structure and discipline required to drive initiatives to completion.
• Someone who can effectively balance internal team health and velocity with demanding external delivery milestones and customer expectations.
• An AI-forward thinker eager to push the boundaries of how software is built and maintained using generative AI tools.
• Someone with experience defining tasks, seeking feedback, and continuously improving their work.
  High ownership of deliverable quality, operational stability, and timelines.
• A collaborative mindset: someone who prioritizes the team and fosters a culture of trust, mutual respect, and shared success.

When you join Sysdig, you can expect

• Extra days off to prioritize your well-being
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a 3% company match
• Maternity and Parental Leave
• Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app
• Full health benefits package for you and your family