Engineering Manager - Security Standards and Hardening
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted September 18, 2025
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Job Description
A leadership role responsible for managing and developing a security engineering team focused on enhancing the security of the Ubuntu open-source platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and collaborating with industry partners to address cryptography and system hardening efforts.
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
- Develop and promote engineering and organizational best practices
- Plan and manage progress on security-related goals and projects
- Support products and customers in meeting strict security standards such as FIPS, CIS, STIG, FedRAMP, and CRA
- Collaborate with industry partners on cryptography modules FIPS 140 and system hardening efforts
Requirements
- Drive, and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about an alternative path
- Prior experience working on FIPS Common Criteria certified products and in-depth knowledge of the underlying standards
- Prior experience working directly with DISA-STIG or CIS benchmarks, including related audit remediation tooling e.g. Compliance as Code
- Knowledgeable and passionate about software and application security
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment
- A demonstrated drive for continual learning
- Ability to develop engineering talent, to represent your team and product from a technical perspective, and to drive collaboration with other teams and customers
- Line management and career guidance experience
- Ability to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
- Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
- Willingness and ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus
Additional benefits reflecting company values and ideals
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
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
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