Engineering Manager, Abnormal Security

• The ideal candidate is comfortable working with a distributed team, will have led backend engineering teams before in enterprise environments and hired experienced engineers
• 2+ years of engineering management experience, leading a team of 4+ engineers building scalable enterprise-class customer-facing products
• 5+ years of software engineering building secure, reliable, and scalable distributed systems
• 3+ years of product development leadership experience (as a lead engineer or engineering manager) working with cross-functional counterparts to build enterprise class customer-facing products
• Interest in Security and Privacy problem space - you are able to apply a practical Security-first mindset to give technical advice to your team when needed
• AI enabler - lead, empower, and rally the team to adopt AI-powered tools to be more effective at their work such as improving information and knowledge gathering, developer productivity, and operational efficiency
• Recruiting magnet - you are able to set up a hiring plan, attract senior engineers, outline the vision of the team and build out a large team
• Passion in growing talents - you are able to give actionable feedback and coach your team to learn from past mistakes to derive short-term and long-term improvements and apply them moving forward
• High standards - set and uphold high standards and expectations for operational excellence, technical quality, and project execution for yourself and the whole team
• BS degree in Computer Science, Applied Sciences, Information Systems or other related engineering field

Desirable

• The Data Security team’s mission is to safeguard the entire lifecycle of Abnormal AI’s customer data through robust Security and Privacy standards and data governance platform solutions
• Our customer data, once onboarded to Abnormal products, must be secured and protected by strict enforcement of Zero Trust Data Access - Authentication, Authorization, and Auditability (AAA)
• You'll be the leader of this team, which comes with the responsibility for the end goal and the autonomy to chart the course, drive execution & build the team you need
• Define the team requirements to reach long term targets
• Create recruiting plans, job reqs, and rapidly hire qualified candidates
• Drive the closing of candidates
• Create onboarding plans to set up new hires for success
• People Management and Growth
• Create a healthy team environment & culture with low attrition & high team member satisfaction
• Actively manage team performance - understand team member’s strengths and weaknesses, areas of growth, whether they are meeting their specific role expectations, and craft a plan to address under & over performance
• Coach engineers: provide timely, actionable feedback, and invest time in career development of team members
• Team Execution
• Create execution plans for the team to deliver on projects and roadmap items
• Ensure execution and attainment of team’s goals through inspection and course correction
• Enforce technical design and project plans, along with Product Managers, Architects and Tech Leads
• Ensure best practices & organizational processes (eg. Jira processes, incident management processes, Quarterly planning processes) are being followed within the team
• Operational Excellence
• Build and improve process and tooling for the teams to handle code launches and production escalations, and support Customer Service and Sales efforts
• Define and track operating metrics for the production services (uptime, other SLAs, bug open rate, etc), and establish a plan to continuously improve
• Leadership and Collaboration
• Receive assignments in the form of long term objectives and determine how to meet schedule & goals
• Provides input into feasibility of team strategy proposed by org-wide leadership
• Collaborate with Tech Leads, Architects, Product Managers, and Product. Designers on product requirements, technical solutions, and product architecture
• Collaborate with senior and executive leaders to form quarterly OKRs and roadmaps