Engineering Manager, SSCS: Supply Chain
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- India
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Guide a backend engineering team building the SSCS Add-On across dependency enforcement, build provenance, malicious package detection, and artifact signing.
- Be responsible for Drive engineering delivery for general availability milestones by aligning sequencing, scope, and dependencies with the Staff Backend Engineer and Product Manager.
- Develop the team by partnering with Talent Acquisition on sourcing, interview design, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions.
- Run regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations that enable growth and clear expectations.
- Advance engineering quality by monitoring cycle time, defect rates, and test coverage, and by addressing risks early.
- Coordinate quarterly planning and roadmap tradeoff discussions with SSCS stage leadership and Product.
- Work with Finance and other partners on headcount pacing and team planning as the Add-On scales.
- Represent the SSCS Add-On team within stage leadership discussions and help ensure strong communication across functions.
- Experience guiding backend product engineering teams in security, DevSecOps, or platform engineering environments.
- Ability to hire and grow backend or security engineers in distributed team environments, with practical understanding of the talent landscape for these roles.
- Technical credibility to contribute to architecture discussions involving package registries, CI/CD pipeline security, and signing infrastructure.
- Experience managing predictable delivery across multi-quarter product roadmaps and managing cross-team dependencies.
- Comfort working in an asynchronous, documentation-driven organization with clear written communication.
- Familiarity with supply chain security, artifact management, or compliance-focused product areas, or transferable experience from related domains.
- Working knowledge of concepts related to frameworks and ecosystems such as SLSA and Sigstore.
- Ability to build credibility with engineers, product partners, and customer-facing stakeholders through clear judgment, coaching, and teamwork.
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