Engineering Manager, Proton
R+D
+ Stock options
3 days a week in office
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Open for applications
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a software engineer background possibly with networking or system development experience and who loves to bring the best out of a team, and to help project manage complex initiatives
- Experience leading large and complex projects as a backend engineer
- Experience managing a team of engineers and coaching them on their career development
- Familiarity with agile project management such as scrum
- Experience breaking down large initiatives into smaller, user-centric milestones
- Experience communicating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure team alignment with business objectives
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in a relevant field of study
- Experience in System development or network development
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager of the Proton VPN Research and Development team, you will lead your team to help them crack all the various challenges related to censorship, scalability, performance, and future new functionalities
- Since the R&D Team is at the center of the most complex functionalities that power our services, you will have an instrumental role in coordinating the execution of large technical projects, within the R&D Team and in close collaboration with the entire Proton VPN development team
- You will face unique and varied challenges that will require continuous learning
- Scale the impact of the R&D Team by helping unlock each member's potential
- Help complex cross-team initiatives, involving R&D, Backend, Infrastructure and Clients, are executed effectively
- Contribute to the company’s strategic vision by aligning engineering goals with the overall business strategy
- Lead strategic projects that require cross-functional input and coordination to achieve major company milestones
- Establish and optimize Agile/Scrum methodologies to increase the efficiency and output of engineering teams
- Drive the development and implementation of scalable architectures and infrastructures that support exponential user growth
- In collaboration with the Principal Architect and all the engineers, transform great ideas into sounds plans that can be timely executed and reach our users
- Be part of building a Product that can be a live changer for many people around the world
- Work with product and engineering stakeholders to build short and long-term roadmaps with user-centric milestones
- Manage each engineer's performance and career by providing actionable and timely feedback and distributing opportunities fairly across the team
- Drive the hiring and onboarding of new team members by providing them with a clear plan and ensuring quick integration into our organization
- Build a highly collaborative environment where opportunities are regularly discussed and everyone's voice is considered for improving the status quo
- Promote a team of resiliency by eliminating knowledge silos and rotating scrum and project management duties across the engineers and product owners
- Participate in design documents, proposals, and code reviews to unblock the team and shorten feedback loops
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company values
- People first - Whether serving the Proton community or the broader world, Proton puts people first. it will always put making a positive impact before profits. Proton is independent, neutral, employee-controlled, and does not have venture capital investors.
- Do what is right - Proton believes doing what is right is a competitive advantage. Proton's culture empowers it to do what is right and to do work that it can truly be proud of. It aims to be a tech company with a conscience.
- Science is our foundation - Proton was founded by scientists, and science is part of its DNA and culture. It believes in technical excellence, rigor, and peer review. Integrity, honesty, and transparency are core values.
- We believe in privacy - Proton believes that privacy is a fundamental right and an essential part of being human. Without it, there can be no freedom. Privacy is a deeply held belief that guides all that Proton does.
- Together it’s possible - Proton believes in collective strength. Its mission can only be accomplished by working together with its community. Together, Proton is building a better internet for future generations.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
Articles
Leadership
Andy Yen
(CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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