Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Challenges You Will Solve

The Red Canary Engineering team builds and operates the platform to deliver unmatched threat detection and response! We process billions of events per day from hundreds of thousands of systems worldwide. We are on the front lines of cybersecurity with unique opportunities to use new technologies and tackle the hardest problems in cyber security.

You are passionate about applying your technical and leadership experience to enable engineering teams to quickly ship features based on requirements. You matter because you are going to enable engineers to reach their fullest potential. You will help them build a high-quality platform critical to securing our customers’ environments. You will support and collaborate with the team to find innovative and efficient ways to process petabytes of data. You will foster a team that thrives on developing features that provide a rich and engaging user experience. You build an environment where engineers want to deliver high-quality products on or ahead of committed deadlines. You can balance the needs of individuals and the needs of the team to meet department and company level goals.

What You'll Do

• You'll be responsible for growing and developing a team of passionate engineers, with growing expectations around individual ownership and impact. You’ll support your team through 1:1’s, scheduled team stand-ups and clear, measurable goals at the team and individual level.
• You'll build relationships and collaborate with your team, product management, IT, legal, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services to our external and internal customers.
• You’ll work closely with Engineering leadership to develop, measure, and achieve department-level objectives and key results.
• You’ll own vendor relationships for the Engineering department.
• You’ll track and measure your team’s performance - holding your team accountable to requirements, schedules, and commitments made.
• You’ll shepherd department level initiatives, such as technology evaluations, cost studies, and development/reporting of system-level performance measures and metrics.
• You’ll be an active participant in high-level architecture and design reviews, as well as individual code reviews.
• You’ll be a player-coach, taking ownership of code coming from your team. This includes understanding of common coding patterns, best practices, and software engineering at scale.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of software development or equivalent experience
• 2+ years experience directly managing engineers, providing technical and career mentorship and feedback and investing in the professional growth of your team members.
• Ability to be in an on call rotation within the Engineering department
• A history of collaboration with product managers and other engineering teams on developing roadmaps and executing against them
• A passion for software architecture; Understanding of complex systems and various technology stacks, including infrastructure as code
• Proven experience working in cross-functional teams in an agile development environment
• Are experienced with Ruby and other common libraries such as RSpec and Sidekiq

Targeted base salary range: $197,000 - $225,000 + bonus eligibility and equity depending on experience.

Benefit Highlights:

- 100% Paid Premiums:  Red Canary offers a 100% paid plan option for medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents. No waiting period.

- Health & Wellness - Access to mental health services, Employee Assistance Program and additional programs to incentivize healthy habits.

- Fertility Benefits: All new hires are eligible for benefits as of their first day.

- Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge including vacation, sick, bereavement, jury duty, and holidays. 

- Paid Parental Leave- Full base pay to bond/care for your new child.

- Pre-Tax Plans - Red Canary offers a variety of plans to fit you and your dependent specific needs including FSA, HRA and HSA, with employer funding to offset out of pocket health care expenses. 

- Flexible Work Environment- With 60% remote workforce, Canaries can work virtually from almost anywhere in the US.

The application deadline is July 26th, 2024.