Engineering Manager

About the role

Two Six Technologies is seeking an Engineering Leader to manage the team responsible for Trusted Keep, our zero trust data security product protecting sensitive government information. This role focuses on both people leadership and technical contribution.

Responsibilities

• Leading the team: regular one-on-one meetings, coaching, guiding career development, and building a strong team culture centered on collaboration

• Owning team composition: interviews, hiring, and advocating for the team with leadership as needs evolve

• Managing performance and compensation: conducting reviews, delivering feedback, recommending promotions

• Collaborating with Product leadership: shaping the roadmap, estimating and prioritizing work, negotiating scope and timelines, reporting status

• Owning engineering delivery: supporting team through all phases from discovery & design through release, refining and holding team to engineering standards, unblocking work when necessary

• Contributing at a senior level: designing and implementing complex features while helping to raise the engineering skills of other team members

• Partnering with senior engineering leadership: on technical direction, architecture, and championing mature engineering practices (CI/CD, QA discipline, infrastructure-as-code)

Requirements

• 10+ years of related IT and Engineering experience
• Experience as an Engineering Manager leading a single team of remote and on-site engineers, with both performance and delivery ownership
• Background in systems languages (Go, Rust, Java, C++, or C#) and distributed systems, sufficient to follow technical designs and verify engineering estimates in any of these languages
• A proven track record of shipping quality software on time
• Experience growing and improving an engineering team without disrupting delivery
• Experience partnering closely with strong senior engineers on technical direction, balancing collaboration and discussion with the need to make decisions and execute
• Experience with Product Engineering and Agile practices, a history of working closely with Product leads

Qualifications

• Go experience
• Linux systems admin: permissions and mounts, OS-level debugging
• Cloud platform experience
• Infrastructure-as-code tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt)
• Security domain experience: HSMs, cryptography, mTLS, PKI, and certificate lifecycle management
• KMS/HSM internals: envelope encryption, key wrapping, key hierarchies, and key lifecycle
• KMIP protocol experience
• OAuth2/OIDC and identity provider integration (e.g., Keycloak)
• WebAuthn/FIDO2
• Policy engines (OPA/Rego)
• Messaging systems (NATS, JetStream)

Skills

• Strong systems-level engineering background (using languages like Go, Rust, Java, C++, or C#)
• Experience in security, cryptography, or identity systems is a strong plus

Benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package that reflects the value we place on our employees and their contributions. Our offerings include medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, tuition assistance and professional development.

Pay

The projected salary range listed for this position is annualized. This is a general guideline and not a guarantee of salary. Salary is one component of our total compensation package and the specific salary offered is determined by various factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, geographic location, as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements. Salary Range $169,000 - $215,000 USD

Schedule

This is a remote position with travel a few times a year. You need to live in the U.S., ideally on the East Coast.