Senior Software Engineering Manager

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead key areas of Vectra’s Platform engineering organization. The Platform team builds and operates foundational software, infrastructure, and tooling used by our products, customers, support teams, and engineering teams.

This role is responsible for leading high-performing engineering teams that own critical platform capabilities across appliance software, cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, operational tooling, service reliability, and developer experience. You will partner closely with Product, Security, Support, SRE, Cloud, Detection, and other engineering leaders to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems.

This is a senior management role for someone who can combine strong technical judgment, operational discipline, people leadership, and cross-functional execution.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and grow engineering teams responsible for foundational platform capabilities.
• Provide direct management, coaching, career development, and performance feedback.
• Drive predictable delivery through planning, ownership, estimation, Jira hygiene, retrospectives, and follow-through.
• Partner with Product Management and engineering leadership to define priorities and technical tradeoffs.
• Guide architecture and technical direction across platform systems.
• Own reliability, security, incident response, observability, and root-cause follow-up.
• Improve platform services used by engineering teams and customer-facing products.
• Improve engineering efficiency through AI-assisted development, automation, and internal tooling.
• Ensure production deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and automated.
• Hire, onboard, and retain engineering talent.
• Communicate progress, risk, delivery health, and investment needs to senior leaders.

Platform Scope

• Appliance operating system ownership, upgrades, hardening, packaging, provisioning, and migrations.
• Hardware and virtual appliance platform enablement.
• Cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, networking, databases, reliability, operations, and alerting.
• Device-to-cloud connectivity and customer lifecycle systems.
• CI/CD, build systems, release automation, developer tooling, and workflow automation.
• Observability, telemetry pipelines, dashboards, incident trends, and operational reporting.
• Containerization standards, runtime operations, and secure deployment patterns.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience, including ownership of production software, infrastructure, or platform systems.
• Experience leading teams that deliver reliable, secure, and scalable software.
• Strong technical judgment covering architecture, design, code quality, operations, and delivery tradeoffs.
• Experience with code review, source control, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and operational readiness.
• Strong Linux/Unix proficiency.
• Experience managing Agile delivery practices.
• Ability to lead cross-team initiatives with complex dependencies.
• Strong communication, organizational, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to mentor, motivate, and grow engineers and technical leads.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Packer, or similar tooling.
• Experience with Linux internals, Debian packaging, AppArmor, cgroups, networking, iptables/nftables, or OS-level security.
• Experience with Python, Go, C++, or systems/backend development.
• Experience operating production environments and improving reliability, availability, security, and deployment safety.
• Experience applying AI-assisted tooling, automation, or developer productivity improvements.
• Experience with telemetry systems including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
• Experience with appliance software, virtual appliances, customer-deployed infrastructure, or hybrid cloud products.
• Knowledge of networking, cybersecurity, threat detection, or security operations.

What Success Looks Like

Success means the Platform team is a trusted partner across engineering: services have clear ownership, teams ship safely and predictably, operational issues are visible and acted on, engineers are growing, and platform investments make the broader product organization faster, safer, and more reliable.

Vectra provides a comprehensive total rewards package including competitive base pay, incentive plan eligibility, employee equity, health care insurance, income protection and life insurance, retirement savings plans, wellness services, time away from work, and an employee recognition program.