Stream-Aligned Engineering Manager — Lead High-Impact Teams

PortSwigger Web Security; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Generous pension contributions

Healthcare contributions

Generous holiday allowance

Learning & development

Job summary

PortSwigger is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a stream-aligned engineering team in Knutsford. This is a high‑impact leadership role focused on people, delivery, engineering quality and customer outcomes.

You’ll shape the team’s roadmap with a Product Manager and Tech Lead, foster autonomy, mentoring, and a culture of efficient flow, learning, and continuous improvement, while maintaining a strong emphasis on production readiness and delivery excellence.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading software engineering teams.
• Experience in a people leadership role.
• Experience guiding teams end-to-end from discovery to production.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices (CI/CD, testing, observability, deployability).
• Ability to manage risk and balance customer value with technical investment.
• Based within reach of Knutsford office and comfortable working in person.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a stream-aligned engineering team focused on high performance and sustainable delivery.
• Partner with Product Management to shape priorities, calibrate scope, balance technical investment with feature delivery, and connect engineering work to customer and business outcomes.
• Work closely with the Tech Lead as a complementary leadership pair, aligning people, delivery, technical direction, and engineering standards.
• Own delivery effectiveness for the team, improving flow, predictability, deployability, release confidence, and operational readiness.
• Help the team use DORA metrics and other delivery signals to understand and improve deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery.
• Protect time for discovery, experimentation, and assumption validation so the team builds the right things, not just things right.
• Reduce unnecessary hand-offs and cross-team friction, proactively managing dependencies before they become delivery risks.
• Ensure the team owns production software responsibly, including runbooks, service-level indicators, incident learning, rollback confidence, and continuous improvement.
• Coach engineers toward autonomy, giving clear feedback, supporting development, and addressing performance issues early and constructively.
• Hire and develop strong engineers, contributing to role definition, assessment, interview quality, candidate experience, and hiring decisions.
• Make work visible to stakeholders, communicate trade-offs clearly, and publish work in progress early enough to invite useful challenge.
• Contribute to the broader engineering organisation by improving how teams interact, share learning, and deliver value together.

Skills

People leadership

Coaching

Delivery management

Stakeholder management

Ambiguity handling

Communication

Team building

Hiring & performance management

Tools

CI/CD

Observability

Release management

Runbooks

SRE practices

Job description

PortSwigger is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a stream-aligned engineering team in Knutsford. This is a high‑impact leadership role focused on people, delivery, engineering quality and customer outcomes.

You’ll shape the team’s roadmap with a Product Manager and Tech Lead, foster autonomy, mentoring, and a culture of efficient flow, learning, and continuous improvement, while maintaining a strong emphasis on production readiness and delivery excellence.