Senior Manager, Engineering (Seattle or West Coast Preferred)
Description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Manager, Engineering based in Canada .
In this remote leadership role, you will guide the engineering team responsible for building and scaling a secure, shared Secrets platform. The platform plays a critical role in protecting credentials and sensitive information within sandboxed environments used by AI agents and other workloads. You will shape its technical direction while maintaining high standards for security, reliability, and engineering excellence. Working closely with Product, Security, and other engineering teams, you will drive adoption and deliver solutions that balance developer experience with enterprise governance. This is an opportunity to combine hands-on technical expertise with people leadership and make a meaningful impact on the future of secure software development.
Accountabilities
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Lead and develop a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining a shared Secrets platform, defining its technical direction and priorities.
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Partner with Product Management to align engineering goals, roadmaps, and delivery with broader business and product objectives.
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Drive adoption of the platform across internal product teams, influencing stakeholders and establishing it as the preferred solution for secure credential management.
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Ensure predictable delivery, operational excellence, and platform reliability, including ownership of the team's on-call rotation and incident response.
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Maintain high standards for security and engineering quality, collaborating with Security teams on design reviews, threat modeling, and architectural decisions.
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Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing engineering talent, with a focus on growing senior individual contributors.
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Build strong relationships across teams, facilitate effective communication, and provide clear status updates on critical initiatives.
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Establish team goals and success measures, improve workflows, remove blockers, and contribute technical guidance to roadmap decisions.
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Oversee the delivery of key platform features and drive long-term improvements in scalability, security, and adoption.
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Stay connected to customer needs and ensure that security capabilities are practical, accessible, and widely adopted.
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5+ years of experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams.
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5+ years of hands-on experience building secure software and scalable cloud services.
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Strong understanding of security fundamentals, including authentication, authorization, secrets and key management, and threat modeling.
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Experience evaluating isolation models and security boundaries for untrusted or semi-trusted workloads.
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Background building platforms, SDKs, or shared services adopted by multiple engineering teams.
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Familiarity with enterprise platform requirements, including auditability, governance, and policy enforcement.
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Strong technical judgment and the ability to guide architectural decisions while remaining engaged with engineering execution.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and collaborate across functions.
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Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain experienced engineering talent.
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Comfortable working independently with a high degree of autonomy in a remote-first, globally distributed environment, including collaboration across time zones.
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Ability to balance technical depth, team development, customer needs, and delivery priorities.
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Annual base salary (United States): $197,650–$318,450, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
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Equity participation for all full-time employees.
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Remote-first work environment, with offices in Seattle and Paris available for connection and collaboration.
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Flexible scheduling and autonomy in managing your workday.
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Generous paid time off, quarterly wellness days, and a designated end-of-year wellness break.
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Home office support to help create a productive workspace.
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Monthly technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net.
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Annual learning and development stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued education.
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16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
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Comprehensive medical and retirement benefits, with coverage and plan details varying by country.
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Paid holidays, subject to local arrangements.
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Company merchandise and team swag.
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Visa sponsorship may be considered on a case-by-case basis according to business needs.
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