Engineering Manager, Cybersecurity Products

Menlo Ventures; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Equity donation matching

Job summary

Menlo Ventures is looking for a skilled Engineering Manager to guide a team creating cutting-edge AI-oriented cybersecurity products. The ideal candidate will possess over eight years of software engineering expertise, including four years in a managerial position, and significant experience in delivering security products.

This role emphasizes close collaboration with customers, architectural influence, and team scaling while ensuring technical excellence in product development.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering and 4+ years managing engineers.
• Experience shipping cybersecurity products in production.
• Experience in scaling teams from prototype to deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead team hiring, performance, and culture.
• Maintain close customer relations.
• Own architectural decisions and product integrations.
• Collaborate with GTM and partnerships.
• Develop new team leadership.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Management experience

Cybersecurity product shipping

Technical hands-on involvement

Product instincts

Communication across functions

Customer contact utilization

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers building AI-powered cybersecurity products. The work spans research, product, and go-to-market.

Your team will prototype and ship products that use frontier models to defend code and infrastructure. You will set technical direction, partner with research to turn new model capabilities into products, and stay close to customers so the team builds the right things, not just builds things well.

This is a builder’s role. The team is small, the pace is high, and you should expect to be in the code, in customer calls, and in research reviews the same week. You also need to scale the team without losing the prototyping energy that got the product here.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team: hiring, performance, and the culture that keeps strong engineers doing their best work
• Stay close to customers, design partners, and the security community; turn what you learn into products and unblock the team on the ones that matter
• Own architectural decisions across the full stack, from agentic systems and model orchestration to product surfaces, integrations, and data infrastructure
• Coordinate with GTM, partnerships, and other product areas
• Grow the next layer of leadership on the team

Qualifications

• Have 8+ years of software engineering experience and 4+ years managing engineers, with ownership of a team's hiring, performance, and technical direction
• Have shipped cybersecurity products in production (SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management, application security, threat detection, incident response, or security automation)
• Have taken a team from prototype through first paying customers to scaled deployment
• Are technical and hands‑on: comfortable in design reviews and in the team's code
• Have strong product instincts and a record of helping teams decide what to build, not just how
• Communicate clearly across functions and keep research, product, GTM, and executive partners aligned through ambiguity
• Treat direct customer contact as a primary input to your roadmap
• Care deeply about Anthropic's mission and about developing AI responsibly and safely

Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience With

• Hands‑on security expertise: application security, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, incident response, penetration testing, or detection engineering
• Building products on LLMs, including agentic systems, evals, and prompt and model iteration loops
• Strict data‑handling environments (BYOC, CMEK, regulated industries, governments)
• Both startup and enterprise‑scale company experience
• Working closely with research to translate capability into shipped product
• Ecosystem partnerships and MCP, CI/CD, or source‑control integrations

Compensation

Annual Salary: $405,000—$485,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

Benefits

We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.