Security Product Engineering Manager

ActiveCampaign

Engineering Manager leading the Security Product Engineering team at ActiveCampaign. Overseeing authentication and authorization services and maturing platform security.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $189,000 - $231,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and develop a team of senior and staff-level engineers — provide hands-on technical mentorship, clear prioritization, and career development that keeps strong ICs engaged.
Spearhead the migration and standardization of identity services onto a centralized platform, partnering with Platform Engineering on the long-term architecture.
Drive operational excellence by hardening the existing identity stack, reducing incident frequency, and building the observability and rigor necessary to run mission-critical infrastructure.
Participate in architectural and code reviews — you should be able to evaluate an identity flow, review a platform configuration, or debug a token validation issue alongside your engineers.
Partner with engineering teams across the organization to improve their integration experience with identity services — better documentation, clearer APIs, faster onboarding.
Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure identity architecture supports regulatory requirements and fraud prevention initiatives.
Shape the security culture by moving the team toward broader platform security concerns, establishing secure development patterns that allow other engineering teams to build with confidence.
Represent the team in incident reviews and cross-functional planning, translating high-level security trade-offs for non-technical audiences without losing the underlying substance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with significant depth in identity, authentication, or authorization systems—you have built and operated these systems at scale.
3+ years of engineering management experience leading engineers (not just tech-leading projects) — you know how to run effective 1:1s, give hard feedback, and create clarity in ambiguous environments.
Hands-on, current technical skills — you can read and review code, evaluate architecture decisions, and credibly challenge or support your team's technical direction.
Proven success in system consolidation, ideally having led the migration from legacy or bespoke auth implementations to standardized, centralized platforms.
Strong understanding of modern identity protocols and standards (authentication, authorization, federation, token-based architectures).
Strategic vision to see beyond identity, with a background in infrastructure hardening and secure development lifecycles (SDLC).
Strong communication skills — you can translate identity and security concepts for product managers, platform engineers, and executives without losing the technical substance.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Top-tier benefits package that includes a fully-covered High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), complimentary access to telehealth services, and a free subscription to Calm.
Growth & Development: Access to LinkedIn Learning, professional development programs, and career growth opportunities in a fast-growing organization.
Generous Paid Time Off: Recharge and take the time you need to maintain work-life balance with open PTO.
Total Rewards: Generous 401(k) matching with immediate vesting, quarterly perks with commuter and lunch benefits for hub based employees or a stipend for remote workers, and a four-week paid sabbatical with bonus after five years.
Collaborative Culture: Work alongside brilliant, passionate colleagues in an environment that values innovation, teamwork, and mutual support.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringidentity systemsauthentication systemsauthorization systemssystem consolidationarchitecture evaluationtoken-based architecturessecure development lifecyclesinfrastructure hardeningcode review

Soft Skills

technical mentorshipteam leadershipeffective feedbackclarity in ambiguitycommunication skillscollaborationincident review representationstrategic visiontranslating technical conceptsengagement