Manager, Software Engineering, Server

Airlock Digital; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401K Plan with 4% Company Match

Life and Disability Programs

Parental Leave

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Home Office Allowance

Job summary

Airlock Digital is seeking a hands-on engineering manager to lead the Server team. You will own the technical direction of a mature security product, guiding architecture, data integrity, and performance while empowering engineers across multiple countries.

You will drive delivery with a focus on security, reliability, and maintainability, mentoring engineers and collaborating with product, QA, SRE, and cloud teams to deliver outstanding outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, building, shipping, and sustaining complex server-side or enterprise software.
• Experience leading a mature product spanning multiple services and data stores.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, indexing, migrations, and high-volume data.
• Record of building secure enterprise applications with authentication, authorization, and data protection.
• At least three years managing a software engineering team across career levels.
• Principal-level technical leadership setting durable direction and mentoring engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for Airlock Digital Server and translate priorities into executable plans.
• Lead engineers across countries with clear expectations and career development.
• Remain hands-on in design, code reviews, and high-risk delivery decisions.
• Balance delivery with security, reliability, and maintainability of a mature codebase.
• Improve documentation, testing, observability, and secure development practices.
• Coordinate with product, QA, SRE, DevOps, security, and cloud teams to improve outcomes.

Skills

Server-side architecture

Leadership experience

Data modeling

Security-aware development

Distributed teams

Technical leadership

Clear communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Go

MongoDB

Redis

Docker

Nginx

Job description

Location: San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Boston, Atlanta-US Remote

Who Are We?

About Airlock Digital:

Airlock Digital is a global leader in application control and allowlisting. We seek to empower every organization to run only what they trust and operate free from malware and ransomware.

With rapid growth across Australia, North America, and EMEA. We are committed to our core values, respect, determination, and integrity. We support a diverse and expanding global customer base. At Airlock, we pride ourselves on being a team of humble, collaborative, and driven professionals who support one another and share a passion for cybersecurity.

What We are Looking For:

We are looking for a hands-on engineering manager to lead the Airlock Digital Server team. You will own the technical direction of a mature security product and the performance, growth, and health of the team, while giving engineers clear ownership and decision-making authority.

Airlock Digital Server is at the center of our application-control platform. It supports policy and allowlisting workflows, communication with endpoint agents, execution data, reporting, enterprise authentication, integrations, administration, and large-scale customer deployments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set the Airlock Digital Server’s technical direction and turn product, security, and customer priorities into executable plans.Guidedecisions about architecture, data integrity, system boundaries, asynchronous processing, external interfaces, authorization, performance, failure behavior, and backward compatibility.

• Lead and developa group ofengineers across countries and career levels.Create an accountable, psychologically safe team through clear expectations, effective one-on-ones, candid feedback, career development, and support for hiring and onboarding.

• Stay hands on where it matters most through design and code reviews, critical implementation, complex debugging, incident response, and high-risk delivery decisions.

• Evolve a mature codebase while balancing delivery with security, reliability, performance, maintainability, testability, and focused technical-debt reduction. Ensure deployments, migrations, upgrades, and rollbacks are safe in customer-managed environments.

• Improve execution through clear priorities, realistic plans, early risk management, and consistent follow-through. Strengthen documentation, testing,deliveryautomation, observability, secure development, release readiness, production support, and responsible use of AI-assisted tools.

• Leadchallengingcustomer and production investigations across the application, data, background processing, integrations, upgrades, deployment environments, and server-agent interactions. Turn recurring failures into lasting improvements.

• Partner with product management, QA, SRE, DevOps, security, support, cloud engineering, and endpoint teams to coordinate delivery, resolve dependencies, and improve customer outcomes.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8+ years ofexperience designing, building, shipping, and sustaining complex server-side or enterprise software, with hands-onexpertisein architecture, APIs, data access, background processing, automated testing, performance, and major upgrades.

• Experience leading a mature product spanning multiple services, interfaces, data stores, and operational components, with a commitment to continuous learning and the ability to help the team grow and adapt as technologies and needs change.This includes improving testing,deliveryautomation, observability, and technical-debt management while continuing to deliver product improvements.

• Strong knowledge of data modeling, indexing, query performance, migrations, data integrity, and high-volume operational data, plus asynchronous processing concepts such as concurrency, retries, idempotency, throughput, and recovery.

• A record of building secure enterprise applications, with sound judgment about authentication, authorization, role-based access control, session management, encryption, secrets, input validation, API security, auditability, and sensitive customer data.

• At least three years managing a small software engineering team, including coaching engineers at different career levels, delegation, performance feedback, career development, difficult conversations, hiring, and team health.

• Principal-level technical leadership experience setting durable direction,resolving architectural tradeoffs, mentoring senior engineers, influencing beyond the immediate team, and aligning technical decisions with business and customer needs.

• Clear written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and experience leading distributed teams. You can document decisions, explain technical tradeoffs, communicate risks early, and build alignment across engineering, product, customer-facing teams, and time zones.

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field is preferred but notrequired. Equivalent practical experience is welcome.

Bonus Points:

• Professional experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails in a mature server-side application, including supporting technologies such as Puma, Passenger,Jbuilder, Rack middleware, server-rendered views, JavaScript, or Tailwind CSS.

• Experience developing Go services, command-line utilities, data-processing tools, or performance-sensitive components.

• Experience with MongoDB or another document database, plus Redis or a background-job framework such asResque.

• Experience operating Linux applications and working with Docker orPodman, container images, system services, Nginx, shell scripting, RPM or DEB packaging, and appliance-style distribution.

• Experience with application control, allowlisting, endpoint protection, EDR, anti-malware, software trust, application reputation, oranothersecurity product where secure failure behavior, auditability, reliability, and careful change management matter.

• Familiarity with enterprise identity technologies such as SAML, LDAP, OAuth 2.0, Microsoft Entra ID, and Google authentication, plus secure APIs, webhooks, SIEM, and integrations with platforms such as Microsoft Graph, Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, or Microsoft Teams.

• Experience with high-volume data ingestion, search, reporting, retention, backup and restore, or performance tuning for deployments supporting tens of thousands of endpoints, and with modernizing a long-lived codebase while continuing to serve customers.

What We Offer:

We don’t think money is everything, but we know it is an important part of your decision to apply for a role. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, location, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal equity, alignment with market data, or applicable laws.

At Airlock Digital we offer a wide range of benefits to our eligible team members. Our benefit programs vary by location and can include Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 401K Plan with 4% Company Match – Life and Disability Programs – Paid Parental Leave - Paid time off and Paid Holidays – Volunteer and Birthday Time off – Home Office Allowance

Our Commitment:

We believe in supporting our team members both personally and professionally. Named one of the USA’s Greatest Places to Work in 2024 and 2025, we value flexibility, trust, and a work environment that empowers our team to do their best work.

We will be assessing applications as they come in, so we encourage you to send your resume through to us as soon as possible. All official job offers from our company are extended directly by our recruitment team and will be sent through an official BambooHR document for your review and signature. Please be aware that we do not ask for any personal information in the process of extending offers of employment, such as financial details or social security numbers. Upon acceptance of any offer, we will request such information as part of the onboarding process prior to or on your first day of employment, and only after completing a background check through an authorized third-party vendor. If you receive any communication asking for personal details outside of these processes, please contact us immediately to verify the authenticity of the request. Your security is important to us, and we are committed to a safe and transparent hiring experience. No contact from recruitment agencies, thank you