Accountabilities:
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.
How Jobgether works:
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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