Manager, Engineering, Secure Build and SCS Services
Leads two engineering teams responsible for secure container builds and software supply-chain services, owning delivery, technical direction, team growth, and production operations. Requires 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, 5+ years managing engineering teams, and strong backend and distributed-systems judgment.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead Secure Build and SCS Services, owning delivery, team health, growth, performance, and operational excellence across both teams.
- Turn two roadmaps into a coherent portfolio plan with explicit priorities, capacity, and trade-offs; ensure neither team becomes a permanent second priority.
- Partner with Product on strategy and roadmaps for secure build, Docker Scout, Docker Hardened Images, and connecting services.
- Participate in design and code reviews, incident response, and selective hands-on work where it adds leverage.
- Set technical direction collaboratively with Staff and senior engineers while maintaining clear decision ownership.
- Own interfaces between teams, including trust boundaries, contracts, data quality, versioning, operational ownership, and customer-facing failure modes.
- Balance product development with inherited systems and on-call responsibilities; invest in reliability improvements.
- Coach, evaluate, hire, retain, and develop engineers; handle difficult performance conversations and build succession depth.
- Align Product, Design, Security, DHI Content, Registry, Hub, sales, support, commercial, and legal partners.
- Lead disciplined use of AI-assisted engineering and communicate decisions, risks, and progress across UK and US working hours.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years managing high-performing engineering teams, including meaningful responsibility across multiple teams or distinct technical domains.
- 8+ years of professional hands-on software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling.
- Experience leading, growing, and retaining engineers at or above your technical seniority, including inherited teams and difficult performance conversations.
- Leader-first operating model with current technical judgment across unfamiliar systems.
- Experience prioritizing competing roadmaps, operational load, and stakeholder commitments.
- Strong backend and distributed-systems judgment, including APIs, event-driven architectures, data stores, cloud-native infrastructure, and production operations.
- Understanding of CI or build-system internals, containers, artifact workflows, software supply-chain security, and trust boundaries.
- Experience operating production infrastructure through on-call, incident response, observability, SLOs, and operational-load reduction.
- Strong product judgment and experience shaping roadmaps with Product.
- Clear written and verbal communication, cross-functional influence, customer closeness, and comfort leading remote-first teams across European and US time zones.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Go, Clojure, or both, and effectiveness across a polyglot estate.
- Experience with Kafka, Spanner, Datomic, or comparable event-streaming and distributed-data systems.
- Experience with OCI, BuildKit, Buildx, or GitHub Actions.
Skills
Go, Clojure, Kafka, Spanner, Datomic, Oci, Buildkit, Buildx, GitHub Actions, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Docker
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