Engineering Manager, Reach Security
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AI technology for security teams
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AI technology for security teams
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform how organizations assess and remediate their security posture.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a motivated problem solver who prioritizes high-quality solutions and thrives in environments of ambiguity
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, with proven success leading backend or application engineering teams
- Prior experience as a Staff or Principal IC, ideally in backend engineering
- Strong system design and architecture skills, with the ability to guide tradeoffs and challenge designs
- Deep database knowledge and comfort with scaling data-intensive applications
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with modern backend ecosystems
- Experience delivering B2B SaaS products at scale
- Track record of building, mentoring, and retaining high-performing teams
- Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to different stakeholders
- Experience working in mid-to-late stage startups; cybersecurity experience is a bonus
- Demonstrated success leading application teams at a cybersecurity company
Desirable
- Strong perspective on hiring philosophies, talent identification, and bar-raising practices
- Experience defining team makeup and growth strategies across levels and specialties
- Proven methods for tracking team productivity, quality, and performance recognition
- Established practices for managing production issues and distractions without disrupting long-term goals
- Experience shipping greenfield applications, particularly in AI-driven domains
What the job involves
- We are seeking an Engineering Manager (Applications) to lead the team responsible for building and scaling the applications layer of Reach Security
- This role blends hands-on technical leadership with higher-level strategy and execution
- You will remain engaged in the code while also guiding architectural decisions, driving project execution, and shaping the long-term direction of our applications
- The team’s work spans several critical areas, including building alerting systems that detect configuration drift in cybersecurity policies, developing customer-facing APIs that expand how users interact with our platform, applying natural language processing to interpret and act on user requests, and creating a user interface that allows for deep data exploration into an organization’s security posture
- You will play a pivotal role in setting technical direction, establishing engineering best practices, and ensuring that projects are delivered with both reliability and scale in mind
- Beyond strategic leadership, you will lead by example—writing code, conducting design and code reviews, and tackling complex technical challenges—while also building and mentoring a high-performing team
- This role requires balancing engineering priorities with business needs, fostering a culture of accountability and innovation, and ensuring the software we deliver is dependable, maintainable, and of the highest quality
- Lead and grow a team of engineers focused on applications (UI, APIs, alerts, greenfield products)
- Balance hands-on contributions (architecture, code reviews, technical design) with management responsibilities
- Drive execution of projects from planning to delivery, ensuring timelines, quality, and stakeholder alignment
- Establish and refine engineering processes around productivity, quality tracking, incident management, and performance recognition
- Hire and develop top technical talent across different seniorities, acting as a bar raiser in interviews
- Provide mentorship, set clear expectations, and manage performance across both high and low performers
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Collaborate closely with product and design to deliver user-facing features with high impact
- Contribute to long-term application architecture and system design decisions
- Guide the team through production issues and ensure operational excellence
Our take
In an era marked by economic uncertainty, cyber security budgets are under strain - with many organizations facing the challenge of achieving optimal security with limited resources. Reach Security offers a solution that streamlines cyber security operations by maximizing the utility of existing tools rather than adding new layers to the security stack.
Reach's platform works as a connective tissue within a company's IT and security infrastructure, harnessing data from existing tools to identify and mitigate threats effectively. This approach not only enhances operational efficiency but also enables faster threat detection and response, crucial in today's rapidly evolving threat landscape.
Despite the challenges in the cyber security space, Reach has attracted significant investor interest, securing funding led by Ballistic Ventures. This investment has helped the company expand its operations (including the introduction of MastermindAI™) as well as its business reach.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2025
$10m
EARLY VC
Mar 2024
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $30m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Garrett Hamilton
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously led SaaS Product Management and Go-To-Market teams at Palo Alto Networks. Before that, they worked at ManTech Cyber Solutions as a Senior Systems Engineer.
Colt Blackmore
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously the Director of Product and Data Science at Proofpoint and Cylance. They also worked as a Technical Lead and Senior Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks as well as a Product Manager at ManTech.
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