Engineering Manager, Rapid Response Assignment

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Engineering Manager leading distributed rapid-response engineering teams for VulnCheck, a cybersecurity exploit intelligence company. Prioritizing urgent customer, pre-sales, reliability, and platform work across regions.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage and grow engineering teams based in the US, UK, and APAC, providing hands-on people leadership, coaching, and career development
  • Set priorities across urgent pre-sales requests, urgent customer issues, customer feature requests, and backend maintenance/integration work
  • Ensure continuous, follow-the-sun coverage for urgent customer and pre-sales needs across time zones
  • Partner with Customer Success and Sales leadership to translate customer and deal-critical needs into engineering plans
  • Partner with Product and other Engineering teams to integrate customer-driven work into the broader platform roadmap
  • Own the team's engineering quality bar, including code quality, root-cause practices, and long-term fixes
  • Drive hiring, onboarding, and performance management across all three regional teams
  • Establish and refine on-call, escalation, and incident response processes
  • Report on team health, throughput, and customer outcomes to engineering and company leadership
  • Remove blockers and stay close enough to technical work to make credible calls under pressure

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience managing software engineers, ideally across distributed or multi-region teams
  • Experience in cybersecurity, vulnerability management, or threat intelligence
  • Prior experience as a senior or staff software engineer, with credibility to engage in technical discussions and unblock your team
  • Experience managing customer-facing, support, sustaining, or reliability engineering teams
  • Proven ability to prioritize and sequence competing demands—urgent customer issues, pre-sales asks, and longer-term maintenance work
  • Experience managing teams across multiple time zones and regions, with strong async communication habits
  • Solid understanding of backend systems, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
  • A customer-obsessed mindset and a track record of turning technical challenges into strong customer outcomes
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with customers, Sales, Customer Success, and other Engineering teams
  • Experience working with data pipelines, ETL systems, or high-volume data processing is a plus
  • Prior experience managing a customer reliability, sustaining, support, or escalation engineering function
  • Familiarity with CVE, NVD, KEV, or exploit intelligence datasets
  • Experience supporting pre-sales or deal-critical technical requests
  • Background in high-growth or startup environments

Benefits:

  • Generous, flexible time off
  • Retirement/pension plan contributions (e.g., 401k with match in the US; local pension schemes elsewhere)
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Remote-friendly environment with flexibility
  • Support for home office costs (phone & internet)
  • Ongoing professional development, coaching, and learning resources
  • Opportunities for career advancement within a fast-growing team
  • Specific benefit details vary by country and are confirmed during the offer process.