BitSight is looking for a talented Engineering Manager to join our engineering team. We pride ourselves in building exceptional career opportunities and offering outstanding benefits to our team. We have the enthusiasm of a start-up but the structure and solidity of a mature industry leader.

BitSight’s mission is to make the online world a safer place by helping governments, companies, and NGOs understand and mitigate their cybersecurity risks. Ours is an internet-scale challenge, we ingest security-related intelligence data from over 100 sources, feed terabytes of data into a proprietary rating algorithm, and deliver ratings for over 500,000 organizations on a daily basis. 

We are looking for a player/coach to lead one of our engineering teams focusing on Bitsight’s highly scalable data pipeline. Working with a close-knit team across multiple locations, you will help us architect and evolve the pipeline to support even larger volumes via cloud data warehouses.  You will bring actionable security insights to the customer through integrating new data sources, surfacing new features from existing data, and refining the rating algorithm. Collaborating with data science and research teams, you will build trust with BitSight customers in the quality and integrity of our data.

Managers in our engineering organization are critical to the success of our teams in meeting both product objectives and growing our people.

• You love developing and growing engineers and have a track record of doing so; you thrive when developing great people, not just great products.
• You are passionate about teamwork and collaboration, while coaching and mentoring software developers to deliver timely, high-quality software.
• You have experience in cultivating a strong engineering culture in an iterative, agile environment.

Requirements

Delivery

• Lead a team of engineers with an agile mindset, enabling them to deliver value iteratively and continuously.
• Exhibit strong collaboration skills with engineers, product management and design to deliver great products through maintainable, scalable and performant technical solutions.
• Lead complex engineering efforts, from scoping and task break-down through delivery, while keeping a healthy and engaged team
• Take on some non-blocking tasks to maintain empathy with the team.

People

• Guide professional development of direct reports by setting clear goals and encouraging a growth mindset
• Hold effective 1:1 meetings oriented around reports' career goals and the engineering ladder
• Solicit and deliver candid and constructive feedback
• Create a positive team culture aligned with our team and company values
• Hold difficult conversations and mediate interpersonal conflict.

Organization

• Advocate for and implement engineering best-practices and develop technical strategy to guide short and long-term plans.
• Partner with other leaders as we craft and evolve an agile, learning organization while nurturing a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in-line with our values.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Java and/or Big Data
• Experience with CI/CD and agile development
• Experience working in the IT security domain

For San Francisco positions, qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.  This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.  If you are resident of Colorado, please email us at [email protected] to receive compensation and benefits information for this role.