Senior Manager, Engineering (Seattle or West Coast Preferred)

ABOUT the company

The company has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on the company to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including the company Desktop, the company Hub, and the company Scout.

We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, the company is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.

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THE ROLE

As AI agents redefine software development, the company is at the center of that shift, providing the local and cloud sandboxed environments that make interactive and autonomous agentic workflows trustworthy by default. At the heart of our trust model is the fact that user credentials and other sensitive secrets are injected at the sandbox layer and never exposed to an agent. An agent can never leak secrets it never sees. The Secrets team builds the software that makes that possible, from easy-to-use SDKs to secure cloud services. We operate at the intersection of the developer experience, enterprise governance, and security—delivering core security features that make the company sandboxes the best way to run agents and other workloads safely. In this role, you would manage this team, owning its technical direction and delivery and being accountable for its operational excellence.

The successful candidate is a hands-on engineer at heart. They have built secure software and scale-out cloud services, and they use that experience to guide their team to sound architectural decisions and a high security bar. They think naturally about isolation and trust boundaries and understand the tradeoffs of running untrusted or semi-trusted workloads. They are skilled at growing and retaining senior individual contributors and thrive in a remote-first environment. They stay close to customers, because the gap between a strong security model and something people actually adopt is where the real work happens.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead a team of engineers building the company's shared Secrets platform and own its technical direction.

• Partner closely with product management to align the team with business and product goals.

• Lead through influence across the teams that adopt the platform, making it their default way to handle credentials.

• Ensure predictable delivery and operational excellence, and own the team's on-call rotation and incident response.

• Hold a high bar for security and engineering excellence, partnering with Security on design reviews and threat models.

• Hire and retain top engineering talent.

• Facilitate communication across teams and provide status reporting for critical projects.

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QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years experience managing high-performing engineering teams.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building secure software and scale-out cloud services.

• Strong grounding in security fundamentals: authentication and authorization, secret and key management, and threat modeling.

• Experience reasoning about isolation and security boundaries for untrusted or semi-trusted workloads.

• Experience building platforms, SDKs, or shared services that other teams adopt, including enterprise requirements like audit and policy.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Comfortable with a high degree of autonomy and the ability to work remotely across time zones.

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WHAT TO EXPECT FIRST 30 DAYS

• Understand the group and team missions.

• Meet the team along with peers across the group and the company.

• Build relationships with the teams that depend on the Secrets platform.

• Start line managing reports and building a rapport.

• Gain a high-level understanding of the Secrets platform and how it fits into the sandbox products.

• Participate in status reporting and reliability reviews.

FIRST 90 DAYS

• Work with the team to align on goals and measures of success.

• Start career discussions with reports.

• Work with the team to improve processes and remove blockers.

• Contribute technical input to roadmap and architectural decisions.

• Oversee the delivery of a change or feature.

• Start hiring for the team.

ONE YEAR OUTLOOK (FIRST YEAR)

• Drive the long-term technical direction of the platform.

• Have had a sustained, positive impact on the growth and performance of your reports.

• Have the platform adopted by multiple the company products.

Visa sponsorship: the company considers visa sponsorship on a case-by-case basis based on business needs.

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COMPENSATION & EQUITY

All full-time roles include equity. Final compensation is determined on factors including but not limited to experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

Canada: CA$276,050– CA$441,650 base

United States: $197,650 – $318,450 base

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POSTING INFORMATION

• Open vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role.

• AI in hiring: the company may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process.

• Interview recordings: Candidates will be invited to opt in to interview recordings to support interviewer calibration and consistent evaluations. Recordings are optional and require explicit consent.

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PERKS & BENEFITS

• Remote-first by design – Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.

• Flexibility that fits your life – We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work.

• Time to recharge – Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break.

• Home office support – Set up your workspace for comfort and success.

• Technology stipend – Equivalent to US$100 net per month to help support your work.

• Learning & development – Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.

• Parental leave – 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.

• Equity for all full-time employees – Share in the company's long-term success as we continue to grow.

• Comprehensive benefits – Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.

• the company swag – Because representing the whale never gets old.

The company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe diverse teams build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our global community.

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