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Job Description
The Security Engineering Manager will lead and develop a team of engineers focused on enhancing the security features of Ubuntu, particularly through the AppArmor security module, while collaborating across teams to protect millions of users worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of engineers, providing coaching, mentorship, and career guidance
- Implement disciplined engineering processes and measure team health indicators
- Represent the team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Plan and manage progress on engineering goals and projects
- Collaborate with security engineering leadership and other teams to address security threats and develop security features for AppArmor
Requirements
- Experience leading and developing a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior level, including coaching, mentoring, and providing career development feedback.
- Ability to identify and measure team health indicators.
- Experience implementing disciplined engineering processes.
- Ability to represent your team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers.
- Experience developing and evangelising great engineering and organisational practices.
- Ability to plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects.
- Experience being an active part of a security engineering leadership team and collaborating with other leaders.
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM fields, or a compelling narrative about an alternative educational path.
- Drive and a proven track record of going above-and-beyond expectations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Experience developing and growing people, with a track record of doing so.
- Organisational skills and ability to ensure your team delivers timely, high-quality results.
- Professional manner when interacting with colleagues, partners, and community members.
- Proficiency in C programming language.
- Good understanding of Linux kernel development.
- Experience working with Linux Security Modules.
- Knowledge and passion for software and application security.
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment.
- Demonstrated drive for continual learning.
- Ability to build trust, relationships, and confidence.
- Result-oriented mindset with a personal drive to meet commitments.
- Ability to travel twice a year for company events, up to two weeks each time.
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
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