Engineering Manager

Sysdig

Engineering Manager responsible for leading software engineering teams and the next-gen Cloud Security Posture Management product development at Sysdig. Driving collaboration across product and security teams for innovative solutions.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $175,000 - $219,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesMicroservices.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Team Leadership: Reporting to the Senior Director Engineering you will build, mentor, and lead a high-performing development team for Sysdig's next-generation Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) product.
Execution & Delivery: Communicate team priorities, define development tasks aligned with broader organizational goals, and own the planning and tracking of sprint deliverables.
Cross-Functional Execution: Drive high-visibility, company-level strategic initiatives across the organization, aligning product, security, and infrastructure teams to push projects across the finish line.
Dependency & Constraint Navigation: Masterfully manage complex cross-team dependencies, mitigating timeline shifts and engineering bandwidth constraints without sacrificing quality.
Customer & Stakeholder Diplomacy: Act as a key technical touchpoint for stakeholders and customers, managing expectations transparently when requirements, timelines, or scopes wiggle.
Next-Gen AI Workflows: Champion and scale our transition into a purely Claude Code-based development workflow, driving team adoption of AI-native engineering for rapid feature development, refactoring, and code comprehension.
AI-Driven Automation: Architect and implement automated pipelines using Claude Code for autonomous testing, continuous maintenance, code review assists, and boilerplate generation to significantly boost team velocity.
Architecture & Design: Guide the design of multitenant, cloud-native data processing microservices for high resiliency and performance.
Hands-on Engagement: Stay close to the metal by reviewing code developed by the team and jumping in with hands-on coding when necessary to unblock milestones.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years of experience directly managing or leading software engineering teams in distributed system environments.
Cross-Functional Track Record: Proven experience leading initiatives that span multiple departments, with a knack for unblocking bottlenecks and driving execution across matrixed organizations.
Rigor under Constraints: Exceptional project management and scoping skills; ability to maintain delivery rigor despite shifting variables, resource constraints, and competing corporate priorities.
Stakeholder Communication: Experience communicating updates and resolutions clearly, with the ability to navigate sensitive customer commitments and setting realistic, data-backed expectations.
AI-Native Engineering: Experience pioneering AI-assisted engineering, specifically utilizing Claude Code (or similar LLM-driven command-line interfaces/agents) to automate development, debugging, and operational workflows.
DevOps & Delivery: Proven track record of defining modern development best practices, with a heavy focus on advanced DevOps, continuous production delivery, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
Technical Domain Expertise: Solid understanding of designing scalable, high-performance, event-driven, and streaming data-processing microservices.
Experience building high-availability, fault-tolerant platforms and reusable cloud components.
Hands-on experience with at least one public cloud environment (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerized environments using Kubernetes and cloud native technologies.
High proficiency in software development using one or more core languages (e.g., Golang, Java, .NET, C#).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Extra days off to prioritize your well-being
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a 3% company match
Maternity and Parental Leave
Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app
Full health benefits package for you and your family

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringAI-native engineeringDevOpsCI/CD pipelinescloud-native data processingmicroservicesautomated testingcodingGolangJava

Soft Skills

team leadershipproject managementstakeholder communicationcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingcustomer diplomacyexecution under constraintsmentoringcommunicationstrategic initiative management