Backend Engineering Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Backend Engineering Manager based in United States.

This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity focused on building and scaling the backend foundations of a critical cybersecurity platform. You will lead a team responsible for microservices, data-processing pipelines, APIs, and distributed platform capabilities. The role combines hands-on technical depth with people leadership, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration. You will help shape backend architecture while ensuring reliability, scalability, and strong production support. The environment is remote-first, mission-driven, and highly collaborative, with teams working across multiple regions. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by helping protect critical infrastructure and the systems communities rely on every day.

Accountabilities

• Lead the backend engineering team and promote a strong, healthy technical community, with a focus on engineering excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineers and support their technical development, career progression, and long-term growth through regular coaching and guidance.
• Own and champion the technical vision and execution of backend platform capabilities, including streaming data ingestion, detection processing, baseline learning, asset reconciliation, core APIs, and platform coordination.
• Guide the design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing evolution of production-grade backend systems built around microservice architectures.
• Partner closely with technical leads and Product Managers to translate product objectives into scalable and reliable engineering solutions.
• Provide technical leadership throughout software development and release processes, helping teams make sound architectural and implementation decisions.
• Foster strong relationships across engineering leadership and encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration between technical teams.
• Ensure backend systems receive effective support in production, stepping in when needed to assist with development, incident triage, troubleshooting, and complex technical issues.
• Contribute to the continued evolution of platform architecture, engineering practices, and technical strategy.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and leading technical engineering teams, with a demonstrated ability to develop high-performing teams and mentor engineers.
• 5+ years of experience developing software or leading teams working with microservice architectures and distributed backend systems.
• Strong hands-on software engineering background with deep fundamentals in backend architecture, distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and production-grade development.
• Strong proficiency in systems-level or backend programming; experience with Rust is strongly preferred , along with the ability and willingness to adopt modern languages and architectures.
• Experience leading engineering work within agile, cross-functional environments and collaborating effectively with product and technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Apache Flink, RabbitMQ, or HashiCorp Vault is an advantage.
• Ability to remain technically engaged and contribute directly when necessary, including occasional development, troubleshooting, incident response, or technical triage.
• Experience in cybersecurity, operational technology (OT), or industrial control systems (ICS) environments is highly desirable.
• Strong leadership, communication, mentoring, and relationship-building skills, combined with sound technical and business judgment.
• Ability to balance strategic engineering leadership with sufficient technical depth to influence architecture and solve complex problems.

Benefits

• $220,000 annual salary .
• Competitive equity package.
• Comprehensive benefits plan.
• Remote-first working environment.
• Opportunity to lead backend engineering initiatives supporting critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
• Meaningful work focused on protecting systems that communities and organizations depend on.
• Collaborative environment built around authenticity, transparency, and trust.
• Career development and opportunities to mentor and grow engineering talent.
• Equal employment opportunity and consideration for qualified applicants regardless of legally protected characteristics.
• Employment is subject to a background check.

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We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

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