Engineering Manager, Core Identity & Access

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligible

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Core Engineering Team responsible for authentication infrastructure and scalable backend services. You will manage a distributed team, collaborate across teams, and drive resilience, performance, and reliability while shaping technical strategy and roadmaps.

The role requires cloud, Java, microservices, Docker/Kubernetes, and security expertise; in-office 2 days a week; equity,

Qualifications

• Experience leading distributed engineering teams.
• Strong backend and cloud architecture knowledge.
• Ability to operate in federal environments.
• Willingness to work from San Francisco Bay Area with 2 days in the office.

Responsibilities

• Manage a distributed team, including setting expectations and removing blockers, creating a collaborative working environment, hiring and recruitment, providing coaching and career management discussions
• Collaborate with managers, architects, product owners, project managers, test partners, security and operations engineers to implement best practices related to resilience
• Communicate and organize cross-team projects with high business impact
• Contribute to defining the strategic direction and roadmap for the team
• Develop backend frameworks and tools for the entire engineering organization to use at scale
• Participate in the incident RCA process to continuously improve reliability and scale
• Provide technical guidance to the engineers on the team
• Drive the evaluation, development, and rollout of new services
• Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with the company's business.
• Evaluate existing systems to evolve them to support the company's future business needs
• Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers

Skills

Stakeholder management

Distributed team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Datastores (SQL/NoSQL/Key-Value)

Containers (Docker/K8s)

Java platform

SaaS experience

Security/authentication/authorization

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Core Engineering Team responsible for authentication infrastructure and scalable backend services. You will manage a distributed team, collaborate across teams, and drive resilience, performance, and reliability while shaping technical strategy and roadmaps.

The role requires cloud, Java, microservices, Docker/Kubernetes, and security expertise; in-office 2 days a week; equity,