Engineering Manager, SSCS: Supply Chain

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager, SSCS: Supply Chain based in India.

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a backend engineering team focused on building advanced software supply chain security solutions.
This role offers the opportunity to shape the direction of a growing product area while driving reliable delivery, engineering excellence, and team development.
You will partner closely with product, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver security capabilities for organizations with complex compliance requirements.
The position combines technical leadership, people management, and strategic execution within a distributed, asynchronous environment.
You will help establish strong engineering practices, support team growth, and enable the delivery of impactful security-focused products.
This is an opportunity for an experienced engineering leader who is passionate about DevOps, security, platform engineering, and building high-performing teams.

• Lead and support a backend engineering team responsible for developing software supply chain security capabilities, including dependency security, build provenance, malicious package detection, and artifact signing.
• Drive engineering delivery by aligning priorities, scope, sequencing, dependencies, and execution plans with technical and product stakeholders.
• Establish effective team processes, operating rhythms, and delivery practices to ensure predictable and high-quality outcomes.
• Develop and mentor engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, performance discussions, career development planning, and ongoing coaching.
• Support talent acquisition efforts by partnering on sourcing strategies, interview processes, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions.
• Monitor engineering quality indicators such as delivery velocity, defect rates, testing practices, and technical risks while promoting continuous improvement.
• Coordinate roadmap planning and tradeoff discussions across engineering, product, and leadership teams.
• Manage team growth planning, including headcount needs, resource allocation, and organizational scaling.
• Represent the engineering team in cross-functional discussions and ensure effective communication across distributed teams.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, technical decisions, and engineering practices related to security platforms, package ecosystems, and CI/CD workflows.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, documentation, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience managing backend product engineering teams within security, DevOps, platform engineering, or related technical environments.
• Proven experience building, mentoring, and developing engineering teams in distributed and remote environments.
• Strong technical understanding of backend systems, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and software delivery practices.
• Ability to contribute meaningfully to architecture discussions involving package registries, supply chain security, artifact management, and signing infrastructure.
• Experience managing multi-quarter product roadmaps, technical priorities, and cross-team dependencies.
• Strong understanding of software supply chain security concepts, artifact management, compliance-focused products, or related domains.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and ecosystems such as SLSA and Sigstore is highly valued.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trust across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.
• Ability to operate effectively in an asynchronous, documentation-driven environment.
• Experience working with global teams and collaborating across multiple time zones.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Benefits:

• Fully remote work opportunity for candidates based in India.
• Flexible work environment designed around autonomy, trust, and asynchronous collaboration.
• Opportunity to lead impactful security-focused engineering initiatives used by organizations worldwide.
• Competitive compensation package with equity opportunities.
• Flexible paid time off to support work-life balance.
• Professional growth and development opportunities through learning resources and career programs.
• Employee resource groups and an inclusive workplace culture.
• Opportunity to collaborate with talented engineers and technology leaders across global teams.