Senior Engineering Manager, Very Good Security
Part Time
$180-220k
+ VGS stock options
More information about location
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
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Security and compliance infrastructure platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-220k
+ VGS stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To protect the world’s sensitive data, enabling innovation while ensuring security and privacy.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership Experience: 5+ years as an Engineering Manager, Technical / Team lead, or Architect in an enterprise or high-growth SaaS environment
- AI-augmented SDLC: A strong command of Agile, DevOps, and SRE practices, specifically adapted for AI-integrated development (e.g., managing agent-generated code pipelines and automated testing suites)
- Technical Depth: Deep experience managing a mesh of microservices written in Java. Strong command of API fundamentals, event-driven architectures, messaging platforms like SQS/Kafka, SQL/NoSQL databases, and enterprise data platforms requiring best-in-class performance, scale, security, and availability
- Cloud Native Stack: Experience with container-orchestration based delivery paradigms, preferably Kubernetes, and experience with modern SaaS toolchain in a public cloud environment, preferably AWS
- Operational Track Record: Experience defining and maintaining SLAs/SLOs and navigating modern observability toolchains
- Compliance & Security: Experience operating within regulated compliance frameworks such as SOC2, PCI-DSS, and ISO27001
- Management Philosophy: A proclivity to "lead from the front" through continuous improvement in people, process, and technology, combined with humility to empower your team to take true ownership
What the job involves
- VGS is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager (US-only) to lead our Payments Acceptance team
- This is a backend-heavy leadership role focused on expanding our Value-Added Services (VAS)—the high-impact products built on our flagship platform, including Network Tokens, Account Updater, 3DS, and Account Validation
- Reporting to the Senior Director of Payments Acceptance, you will lead an autonomous team of 8–10 engineers
- You will work hand-in-hand with Product Management, the CTO, the tech leads, and an adjacent team focused on CMP foundational capabilities
- We are looking for a leader who is passionate about AI-native engineering management—someone who can scale a team that leverages agentic workflows to deliver enterprise-grade, mission-critical financial products while achieving exceptional quality, scalability, reliability, and security
- Drive AI-Native Delivery: Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of services using AI-augmented development methodologies. You will lead the shift in how we design, build, test, deploy, monitor and operate services in VGS production environments
- Strategic Partnership: Partner with Product Management to define the feature roadmap ensuring security, performance, and scalability are prioritized alongside new value-added services
- Lead from the Front: Hire, coach, and mentor a high-performing team. You aren’t just a people manager; you are a culture-builder who raises the bar for engineering excellence and "leads by doing."
- Architectural Oversight: Collaborate with the CTO and Tech Leads to drive design choices, ensuring your team’s services follow established patterns while remaining innovative
- Operational Excellence: Manage unplanned workstreams—incidents, vulnerabilities, and defects—with a sharp focus on building resilient, self-healing systems
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Payments Acceptance Foundations, Sustaining, Infrastructure, Shared Services and Security teams to resolve dependencies and ensure a seamless path to production for VAS products
- Cultivate Code Quality: Foster a rigorous engineering culture centered on comprehensive testing, automation, and robust code reviews, tailored specifically for AI-augmented development workflows
- Embody Our Leadership Principles: Lead with humility and respect, delight our customers, raise the bar, create immense value, and act as a true owner—going above and beyond to do the right thing for our company while having fun along the way
Our take
As scaling businesses grow, data security can take a back seat. Very Good Security takes the pressure off by assuming liability for sensitive data and ensuring compliance with one simple integration. It's an enticing proposition that enables its customers to get to market faster while offloading the risks of data custodianship.
VGS’s secured vaults and zero-data approach means clients don’t have to become security geniuses themselves and instead can focus on what’s unique to their business. Competing against TokenEx, HP’s Voltage, Thales’ Vormetric, and more VGS is trying to disrupt the do-it-yourself status quo of the data security industry. VGS also expedites certifications against PCI DSS, SOC2, and GDPR requirements, and reduces the total cost of compliance by up to 70 percent.
VGS has already attracted significant investment as well as an impressive set of customers (including Brex and Deliveroo). With more companies looking for tailored solutions as they transition to the cloud, VGS is developing several new capabilities to further automate compliance controls for customers on its platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$60m
SERIES C
Oct 2019
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $103.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive health benefits including medical, dental, & vision insurance
- VGS stock options
- 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting of employer match
- Life & disability insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (dependent and healthcare FSA)
- Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
- 11 US company holidays
- Eligibility for health benefits starts on Day 1!
- New hire home office set up allowance
- Professional learning reimbursement
Company HQ
Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mahmoud Abdelkader
(Co-Founder)They started their career as a CSC Consulting Software Engineer before 2 years as the ModelsHotel.com CIO and working at Wachovia and eBay. They co-founded Balanced in 2011, leaving their CTO position in 2015 to co-found Very Good Security in April 2016.
Marshall Jones
(Co-Founder)They are a seasoned engineer who has built countless products in the fintech industry. Formerly VP of Engineering at Balanced, a payment system for marketplaces.
Chuck Yu
(CEO)Previously CRO at DriveWealth, Vice President of Digital Partnerships at Visa and Head of Finance and Operations at Point.
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