Senior Engineering Manager, Coalition
Site Reliability
$154.6-227.7k
Cyber insurance and security for businesses
Be an early applicant
Cyber insurance and security for businesses
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$154.6-227.7k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To protect the unprotected from technology failures and cyber-attacks, helping manage risk online so they can focus on growth.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of overall SRE or Software engineering experience, with 3+ years managing a team of at least 5 engineers
- Demonstrated success in hiring, growing, and managing diverse engineering teams
- Broad technical depth across modern cloud-based technologies and architectures (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform)
- Strong foundational knowledge in software engineering principles, reliability engineering, and distributed systems
- Experience building and operating platform infrastructure at scale, including CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident response
- Proficiency in agile planning and execution, with a strong track record of delivering features and platform capabilities
- A customer-centric approach to solving platform challenges and driving developer enablement through the use of tooling and/or internal development platforms
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams and functions
- Technical background to objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
- Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing priorities
Desirable
- Experience in reliability engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles
- Proficiency with service-oriented architectures, Kubernetes, or service mesh technologies
- In-depth knowledge of cloud cost management and optimization strategies
- Familiarity with cybersecurity, risk management, or insurance-related platforms
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. This team plays a pivotal role in designing, building, and operating the foundational platform that powers our core products and services
- The Platform SRE team is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our cloud-based infrastructure, driving operational excellence, and enabling developer productivity through a robust "paved road" experience
- This is a high-impact role requiring a strong leader who can manage a talented team of engineers, align engineering efforts with business goals, and foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. The ideal candidate will combine technical breadth, people management expertise, and agile project leadership to deliver on the team’s mission
- Lead and develop a high-performing SRE team, hiring and growing world-class talent
- Foster team growth by mentoring engineers, identifying skill gaps, and managing career development plans
- Manage performance effectively, balancing recognition of achievements with constructive feedback and coaching
- Drive the development and operation of reliable, scalable, and secure platform infrastructure
- Provide guidance on cloud-based architectures, distributed systems, and service-oriented design
- Partner with engineering teams to enhance operational readiness, ensure observability, and optimize for reliability and scalability
- Balance managing technical debt with delivering new features and meeting business priorities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize team deliverables and align on roadmaps
- Track and communicate progress, risks, and dependencies effectively across all levels of the organization
- Be a leader for reliability, operational best practices, and customer-focused solutions
Our take
The cybersecurity industry has been going through a record-breaking period of investment. This trend has emerged as more companies move to cloud-based networks following the increase of out-of-office work, thus increasing the risk of cyber attacks. However, many cutting-edge cyber defences are too expensive for many companies.
Coalition’s joint offering of cyber security tools, a risk management platform, and cyber insurance allows companies to manage the ever-present risk of cyber threats.
The company has made a strong start since its 2017 launch, raising nearly $800 million in funding. There are a number of other fast-growth startups in the cybersecurity space, including Wiz and Orca Security, but Coalition’s shrewd insurance-based model is what sets it apart from the competition. The company has set out on a path toward global expansion, branching out from the US and Canadian markets to bring its solutions to the UK, whilst also acquiring smaller competitors like JUMBO.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2022
$250m
SERIES F
Sep 2021
$205m
SERIES E
Total funding: $770m
Company benefits
- Paid parental leave
- 401k plan
- Stock option plan
- Open vacation days
- Flexible working hours
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Character - We are never too big to do the small things that need to be done. We balance pride with humility: absolute pride in performance; total humility before the magnitude of the task
- Humility - We aren’t afraid to ask questions, including simple ones like: can we do this better?
- Responsibility - We are building an environment of personal and professional development, in which an individual takes responsibility and shares ownership
- Purpose - The more you have to play for, the better you play. We are all here to build something we believe in and to make a company that will last
- Authenticity - We refuse to be distracted by the clamor of competitors or the tired industry in which we operate. We have the courage to follow our heart and intuition
- Diversity - The strength of the wolf is the pack. We’ve built an environment where all team members can thrive irrespective of their ideas, creed, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or any other arbitrary subdivision
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Joshua Motta
(CEO)After studying at the University of Chicago, Joshua worked at Goldman Sachs for a year before moving to Private Equity at Francisco Partners, and working as an IGNIA Partners Investor. He left his role at Cloudflare to co-found Coalition in March 2017.
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