This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager, SSCS: Supply Chain based in India.
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a backend engineering team focused on building advanced software supply chain security solutions.
This role offers the opportunity to shape the direction of a growing product area while driving reliable delivery, engineering excellence, and team development.
You will partner closely with product, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver security capabilities for organizations with complex compliance requirements.
The position combines technical leadership, people management, and strategic execution within a distributed, asynchronous environment.
You will help establish strong engineering practices, support team growth, and enable the delivery of impactful security-focused products.
This is an opportunity for an experienced engineering leader who is passionate about DevOps, security, platform engineering, and building high-performing teams.
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager, SSCS: Supply Chain based in India.
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a backend engineering team focused on building advanced software supply chain security solutions.
This role offers the opportunity to shape the direction of a growing product area while driving reliable delivery, engineering excellence, and team development.
You will partner closely with product, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver security capabilities for organizations with complex compliance requirements.
The position combines technical leadership, people management, and strategic execution within a distributed, asynchronous environment.
You will help establish strong engineering practices, support team growth, and enable the delivery of impactful security-focused products.
This is an opportunity for an experienced engineering leader who is passionate about DevOps, security, platform engineering, and building high-performing teams.
Accountabilities:
- Lead and support a backend engineering team responsible for developing software supply chain security capabilities, including dependency security, build provenance, malicious package detection, and artifact signing.
- Drive engineering delivery by aligning priorities, scope, sequencing, dependencies, and execution plans with technical and product stakeholders.
- Establish effective team processes, operating rhythms, and delivery practices to ensure predictable and high-quality outcomes.
- Develop and mentor engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, performance discussions, career development planning, and ongoing coaching.
- Support talent acquisition efforts by partnering on sourcing strategies, interview processes, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions.
- Monitor engineering quality indicators such as delivery velocity, defect rates, testing practices, and technical risks while promoting continuous improvement.
- Coordinate roadmap planning and tradeoff discussions across engineering, product, and leadership teams.
- Manage team growth planning, including headcount needs, resource allocation, and organizational scaling.
- Represent the engineering team in cross-functional discussions and ensure effective communication across distributed teams.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, technical decisions, and engineering practices related to security platforms, package ecosystems, and CI/CD workflows.
- Promote a culture of collaboration, documentation, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence.
- 3+ years of experience managing backend product engineering teams within security, DevOps, platform engineering, or related technical environments.
- Proven experience building, mentoring, and developing engineering teams in distributed and remote environments.
- Strong technical understanding of backend systems, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and software delivery practices.
- Ability to contribute meaningfully to architecture discussions involving package registries, supply chain security, artifact management, and signing infrastructure.
- Experience managing multi-quarter product roadmaps, technical priorities, and cross-team dependencies.
- Strong understanding of software supply chain security concepts, artifact management, compliance-focused products, or related domains.
- Familiarity with security frameworks and ecosystems such as SLSA and Sigstore is highly valued.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trust across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.
- Ability to operate effectively in an asynchronous, documentation-driven environment.
- Experience working with global teams and collaborating across multiple time zones.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Fully remote work opportunity for candidates based in India.
- Flexible work environment designed around autonomy, trust, and asynchronous collaboration.
- Opportunity to lead impactful security-focused engineering initiatives used by organizations worldwide.
- Competitive compensation package with equity opportunities.
- Flexible paid time off to support work-life balance.
- Professional growth and development opportunities through learning resources and career programs.
- Employee resource groups and an inclusive workplace culture.
- Opportunity to collaborate with talented engineers and technology leaders across global teams.