About Keyfactor
Our mission is to build a connected society, rooted in trust, with identity-first security for every machine and human. Keyfactor helps organizations move fast to establish digital trust at scale — and then maintain it. With decades of cybersecurity experience, Keyfactor is trusted by more than 1,500 companies across the globe. We are proud to continually earn recognition as a Best Place to Work, and we achieve that through our amazing people who cultivate our culture as we grow. We hope you will trust your future with Keyfactor!
Title: Manager, Engineering
Location: United States; Remote or Canada; Remote
Experience: Senior
Employment Type: Full-Time
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Job Summary
Leads a team of engineers, managing day-to-day activities and project goals. Drives technical excellence, supports team development, and ensures successful execution of engineering tasks.
Applicants must hold U.S. citizenship.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of engineers, focusing on project execution and team development.
- Ensure that engineering work aligns with technical and business requirements.
- Oversee project planning, execution, and delivery, managing timelines and resources.
- Collaborate with product managers and other teams to drive project success.
- Implement and maintain engineering processes and best practices.
- Monitor and ensure the quality of engineering deliverables.
- Provide guidance and support to team members, fostering their growth.
- Address and resolve technical and project-related issues.
- Manage resource needs and allocation for engineering projects.
- Track and report on project progress and team performance.
Minimum Qualifications, Education, and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
- Excellent managerial and organizational skills, strong decision-making, and resource allocation.
- Proficiency in team management, process improvement, and effective communication.
- Ability to manage multiple teams, ensure alignment with company goals, and drive performance improvements.
- Ability to oversee project execution, collaborate across departments, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software products.
- Comprehensive knowledge of departmental operations, budget management, and strategic planning.
- Knowledge of software development life cycle, agile methodologies, and performance optimization.
Technical Skills and Experience
- Hand-on experience with programming in C/C++ and Go.
- Strong background in building scalable software systems for multi-cloud (AWS, Azure) and on-premise environments.
- Experience with cryptographic libraries and frameworks.
- Experience integrating with external systems using APIs for push-based (webhooks, pub/sub, streaming) and pull-based (polling, REST/RPC/gRPC) data exchange.
- Strong knowledge of event-driven and message-oriented architectures, using tools such as Kafka, cloud-native pub/sub systems or similar.
- Familiarity with containerization (docker, podman) and orchestration (Kubernetes) for deployment and scaling in distributed environments.
- Experience with deep cryptographic object inspection, secure protocol implementation (TLS, PKI, key management), and certificate validation a big plus.
- Experience with static analysis tools and techniques, including parsing, bytecode analysis, and vulnerability detection a big plus.
- Exposure to endpoint agents, scanning tools, and security integrations a big plus.
Compensation
Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Culture, Career Opportunities and Benefits
We build teams that continually strive to get better than the day before. You will be challenged daily and given opportunities to grow personally and professionally. We balance autonomy and structure to create an entrepreneurial environment to spur creativity and new ideas.
Here are just some of the initiatives that make our culture special:
- Second Fridays (a company-wide day off on the second Friday of every month minus November and December of 2025 due to the Holiday schedule). Please note that this benefit is subject to change.
- Comprehensive benefit coverage globally.
- Generous paid parental leave globally.
- Competitive time off globally.
- Dedicated employee-focused ambassadors via Key Contributors & Culture Committees.
- DIVERSE Commitment, a call to action for a more inclusive and diverse future in business, society, and technology.
- The Keyfactor Alliance Program to support DEIB efforts.
- Wellbeing resources, wellness allowance, mindfulness app free membership, Wellness Wednesdays.
- Global Volunteer Day, company non-profit matching, and 3 volunteer days off.
- Monthly Talent development and Cross Functional meetings to support professional development.
- Regular All Hands meetings – followed by group gatherings.
Our Core Values
Our core values are extremely important to how we run our business and what we look for in every team member:
Trust is paramount.
We deliver security software and solutions where trust and openness are of the highest importance for our customers. We are honest and a trusted partner in every aspect of business.
Customers are core.
We strategize, operate, and execute through a customer-centric view. We prioritize the security interests of our customers, and we act as if their data were our own.
Innovation never stops, it only accelerates.
The speed of change is accelerating. We are committed, through investment and focus, to stay ahead of the innovation curve.
We deliver with agility.
We thrive in high-paced and continually changing environments. We navigate through newly added variables, adjust accordingly, while driving towards our strategic goals.
United by respect.
Respect for all is what unites us. We promote diversity, inclusivity, equity, and acting with empathy and openness, both in our business and in our communities.
Teams make “it” happen.
Vision and goals are not individually achievable – they require teamwork. We pride ourselves in operating as a cohesive team, creating promoters and partners, and winning as one.
Keyfactor is a proud equal opportunity employer including but not limited to veterans and individuals with disabilities.
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION: Applicants with disabilities may contact a member of Keyfactor’s People team via [email protected] and/or telephone at 1.216.785.2990 to request and arrange for accommodations at any time.
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