Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

Fingerprint empowers developers to stop online fraud at the source. We work on turning radical new ideas in the fraud detection space into reality. Our products are developer-focused and our clients range from solo developers to publicly traded companies. We are a globally dispersed, 100% remote company with a strong open-source focus. Our flagship open-source project is FingerprintJS (27K stars on GitHub). We have raised $77M and are backed by Craft Ventures (previously invested in Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb ), Nexus Venture Partners (previously invested in Postman, Apollo.io, MinIO, Druva) and Uncorrelated Ventures (previously invested in Redis, Rollbar & Gradle).

Responsibilities

• Lead Across Domains
  Own outcomes across multiple teams or workstreams. At this level, your accountability extends beyond a single squad — you are responsible for the health, delivery, and strategic direction of your full domain.
• Develop other managers and senior engineers.
  Run substantive 1:1s, build succession plans, expose emerging leaders to cross-domain initiatives, and create the conditions for people on your team to grow beyond their current scope.
• Build headcount plans proactively.
  Anticipate growth needs before they become capacity constraints and bring staffing proposals to leadership with rationale and timing.
• Set Technical Vision
  Define the architectural strategy for your domain. You are not just reviewing designs — you are setting the direction, identifying systemic risks, and making trade-offs visible to leadership before they become incidents.
• Mentor other managers and senior ICs on complex technical trade-offs.
  Your technical credibility earns trust with engineers; your judgment on architectural decisions shapes how the team builds.
• Proactively surface technical debt and infrastructure risk with a prioritized plan to address it — not after escalation, but before it jeopardizes delivery or reliability.
• Drive Cross-Functional Alignment
  Manage cross-domain dependencies. Align teams across team boundaries with unified direction.
• Communicate roadmap priorities and risks proactively to the VP of Engineering and relevant stakeholders.
  Translate complex technical decisions into business context. Come with recommendations, not status updates.
• Partner with Engineering Leadership and Product on roadmap prioritization.
  Represent your function's constraints, opportunities, and risks in planning processes.
• Operate with Executive Accountability
  Resolve complex cross-team problems quickly and under pressure. Make decisions in ambiguity without waiting for full information.
• Own your function's budget, headcount planning, and operational health with minimal guidance.
  Bring roadmap or architecture proposals unprompted. Think about your team's impact on the broader engineering org, not just your immediate domain.

Requirements

• Required Engineering management experience: 5-7+ years managing engineering teams, with at least 2 years at a scope equivalent to managing multiple teams, a large team, or a function with cross-domain accountability.
• Direct ownership of performance management, career development, and hiring — not just running standups or serving as a tech lead.
• Multi-team or cross-domain leadership: You have operated beyond a single squad and navigated dependencies, competing priorities, and alignment challenges across team boundaries.
• Technical depth in your domain: You can set architectural direction, evaluate complex proposals, and earn credibility with senior engineers through substance — not just title.
• A delivery track record: Concrete examples of how your teams shipped reliably, and what you specifically did when they didn't. You take ownership of slippage, not just credit for wins.
• Strong cross-functional communication: You translate technical constraints and opportunities into language that PMs, Finance, and executive leadership can act on. You do not wait to be asked.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity: You do not need a fully-defined mandate to lead effectively. You define the problem, structure the path forward, and bring others along.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of AWS native infrastructure, including EKS (Kubernetes), IAM, VPC, RDS, and modern DevOps stack such as GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience in managing seven-figure cloud budgets with measurable cost reduction outcomes.
• SRE mindset: You think in SLOs, blameless retrospectives, and incident response frameworks — and you build cultures that do too.
• Total technology experience: 10+ years in technology overall.
• Genuine breadth across all three disciplines: application security, IT operations, and compliance/GRC.
• Experience running or being the primary owner of a SOC 2 audit cycle.
• Experience with OWASP, vulnerability management programs (Snyk or equivalent), and security review processes for engineering teams.
• Leadership experience in identity and access management (Okta or equivalent), endpoint management, and remote workforce IT at scale.

Skills

• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and make decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with fraud detection, identity, device intelligence, or trust and safety domains.

Benefits

We are a globally dispersed, 100% remote company with a strong open-source focus. Our flagship open-source project is FingerprintJS (27K stars on GitHub). We have raised $77M and are backed by Craft Ventures (previously invested in Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb ), Nexus Venture Partners (previously invested in Postman, Apollo.io, MinIO, Druva) and Uncorrelated Ventures (previously invested in Redis, Rollbar & Gradle).

Pay

For US-based employees, the cash compensation range for this role is $177,000 – $240,000. We set standard ranges for all US roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. However, these ranges are specific to the hiring location and may differ within or outside the US.

Schedule

We are an all-remote company and people can join our workforce from almost any country. We do not sponsor visas. Fingerprint teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location.