Software Engineering Manager, SecurityScorecard
$175-225k
OTE
OTE is base plus bonus. + Stock options
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
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Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$175-225k
OTE
OTE is base plus bonus. + Stock options
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SecurityScorecard's mission is to make the world a safer place by transforming the way organisations understand, mitigate, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on backend systems and platform services
- 5+ years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams
- Expertise in a modern programming language such as Node.js
- Strong systems design background with deep experience in performance, scalability, and reliability
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), distributed systems, observability, and DevOps practices
- Strong fundamentals in computer science (algorithms, data structures, operating systems, networking)
- Proven success in mentoring engineers & delivering complex projects at scale
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to balance tradeoffs
- Strong communication skills — both verbal and written — and the ability to influence across disciplines
Desirable
- Experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or security-focused platforms
- Familiarity with front-end technologies (React) and full-stack engineering
- Experience building internal developer platforms or tools to improve productivity
- Prior work on high-scale systems handling large volumes of data
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager — a strategic, hands-on leader who will own the foundational systems that power our products
- You'll lead a highly skilled team of backend, infrastructure, and full-stack engineers focused on building scalable services, improving developer velocity, and enabling teams to deliver great customer experiences
- This role is both people and technology-focused: you’ll coach and grow engineers, while also guiding complex technical initiatives around micro-services architecture, distributed systems, infrastructure, and automation
- Team Leadership & People Management:
- Lead, grow, and coach a highly competent engineering team
- Create a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous learning
- Develop individualized growth plans; care deeply about career development
- Lead by example and be a role model of our values:
- Own process and outcomes, Be curious, Be a leader
- Technical Ownership:
- Own the quality, architecture, and pace of delivery for the team
- Lead the design and development of scalable microservices and platform systems using technologies such as AWS, Node.js, and React
- Drive adoption of modern infrastructure: CI/CD, containerization, observability, and cloud services
- Lead architectural and code reviews across the platform organization
- Translate business and R&D initiatives into actionable technical requirements, choosing appropriate technologies and driving implementation
- Build systems that scale: distributed, real-time data pipelines for low-latency decisioning
- Focus on automation & tooling to reduce toil and improve engineering efficiency
- Cross-Team Collaboration:
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and stakeholders across teams to align priorities
- Maximize the team’s impact by ensuring clarity, focus, and execution
- Advocate for platform capabilities that unlock product and engineering velocity
- Our Tech Stack:
- Programming Languages: Mainly Typescript / Javascript, although sub systems use a variety of languages - Node.js, Typescript, React
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins
- Production Monitoring: Newrelic
- Database: Clickhouse, PostgreSQL
Our take
Organisations understand the value of data and the value of business partnerships that will help them leverage it. However, involving more companies increases the risk of vulnerabilities and, therefore, costly data breaches. SecurityScorecard is a cloud-based enterprise SaaS solution that helps organisations assess and manage cybersecurity risks, offering analyses of potential partner companies using A-F security ratings.
SecurityScorecard looms over its competitors as it covers millions of companies, offering near-instant cybersecurity analyses and an array of capabilities. It has a large, global, and big-name customer base, including 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 9 of the top 10 banking institutions, and it is likely to go public in the next few years.
It has both developed and consolidated an impressive lead in a sector that will continue to grow and reward cutting-edge security solutions. Security Scorecard set to remain an industry leader with demonstrable, accessible, and highly attractive customer offerings. In 2024, this included a supply chain cyber risk management platform - MAX - which is driving record revenue.
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Insights
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2021
$180m
SERIES E
Jun 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Total funding: $294.4m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- 12 weeks of paid maternity leave / 4 weeks paid paternity leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- 401K
- $3k annual education stipend per employee
- Full access to our learning platform and company professional development events
- Up to $10K referral bonus
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Aleksandr Yampolskiy
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked at Oracle and Goldman Sachs, before serving for 2 years as CISO of Gilt Group. Founded NYC Technology Startup, Meetup, in 2012 and then worked as CTO of Cinchcast.
Sam Kassoumeh
(Co-Founder & COO)Progressed from Technology Compliance Manager to Head of Security and Compliance at Gilt Groupe within 4 years, and worked as Cyber Security Advisor for Billy.
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