Senior Manager, Security Platform Engineering

Todyl, Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Todyl, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager to lead two engineering teams responsible for the core security platforms, including the Detection Engine, TIP, SOAR, and Case Management.

You will own delivery quality, roadmaps, and partner-facing surfaces, while guiding architectural direction and standards. The role blends 80% people leadership with 20% technical contributions, shaping security workflows and agentic automation used by SOC and Threat Intelligence functions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• 8+ years in software or security engineering, including building security products or detection/response tooling.
• 3+ years managing engineering teams, including 8+ engineers or multiple teams.
• Experience developing team leads or first-line managers.

Responsibilities

• Lead two system-aligned engineering teams covering Detection Engine, TIP, SOAR, and Case Management.
• Own hiring, performance, coaching, and career development for the engineering group.
• Maintain a high technical bar through design reviews, code review standards, and architectural guidance.
• Define done: acceptance criteria signed off by SOC, DE, TI.
• Own production operations: on-call, incidents, SLOs, reliability engineering.
• Own roadmap and quarterly planning for the Detection Engine, TIP, SOAR, and Case Management.
• Set architectural direction for streaming detection, intelligence pipelines, and automation.
• Collaborate with security practitioners and AI/ML teams on telemetry and workflows.
• Ensure data, APIs, and integration points are robust for AI SOC capabilities.

Skills

Data-intensive systems

Go

Python

SQL

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

8+ years software or security engineering experience

3+ years engineering management experience

Experience developing first-line managers

Tools

Kafka

Logstash

ClickHouse

MySQL

Git

Argo CI/CD

Job description

Senior Manager, Security Platform Engineering

About this position

About Todyl, Inc.
Todyl puts world-class networking and security within reach of every business. The Todyl Security Platform converges SASE, SIEM, Endpoint Security, GRC, MXDR, and more into a cloud-native, single-agent platform specifically built for MSPs, MSSPs, and Mid-Market IT Professionals. We are a fast-paced, dynamic start-up, passionate about simplifying complex networking and security for businesses of all sizes.

We are seeking a Senior Manager to lead the two engineering teams that build and operate our core security systems: the Detection Engine, Threat Intelligence Platform, SOAR, and Case Management. These systems power how our SOC, Detection Engineering, and Threat Intelligence functions detect threats, hunt, and work alerts—and how the results of that work are presented to our partners through cases. Their quality is directly visible in the detection and response outcomes our partners receive. This role reports to the Security leader.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role. Roughly 80% of your time is management and delivery leadership; roughly 20% is technical contribution through architecture, design reviews, standards, and prototyping—not critical-path development. Your teams own production operations for these systems, including on-call, and you own their delivery quality, roadmap, and the quality of their partner-visible surfaces.

Our security practitioners are your customers: SOC, Detection Engineering, and Threat Intelligence define requirements and serve as the acceptance gate for security-facing functionality. Your teams own and iterate on the platforms themselves. As an AI-first security organization, our security practitioners build agentic workflows—detection authoring, intelligence enrichment, validation automation—directly on these systems, making platform extensibility and workflow support core requirements of what your teams deliver.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Development (Daily / Weekly)

• Manage two system-aligned engineering teams covering the Detection Engine, TIP, SOAR, and Case Management
• Own hiring, performance, coaching, and career development for the engineering group, including developing team leads and senior engineers into broader leadership responsibilities
• Maintain a high technical bar through design reviews, code review standards, and architectural guidance

Delivery Quality & Production Ownership (Daily / Ongoing)

• Own the definition of done: establish acceptance criteria for security-facing functionality with operator sign-off from SOC, Detection Engineering, and Threat Intelligence
• Own production operations for these systems: on-call rotations, incident review, SLOs, and reliability engineering
• Own release quality and delivery predictability across both teams
• Coordinate shared infrastructure, deploy tooling, and engineering standards with our central Engineering organization

Roadmap & Product Ownership (Weekly / Quarterly)

• Own the roadmap for the Detection Engine, TIP, SOAR, and Case Management, balancing operator needs, platform health, and partner-visible improvements
• Run product discipline for these systems: quarterly planning, success metrics, and written problem statements for major initiatives
• Own the quality and roadmap of partner-visible surfaces—case presentation foremost, as the primary way partners see the value of our security work—drawing partner signal from our customer-facing teams and coordinating with Product Management on go-to-market and the SIEM boundary
• Own the alert-working and threat hunting workflows these systems provide: investigation surfaces, hunt tooling and query capabilities, and the alert-to-case lifecycle

Technical Contribution (~20%, Ongoing)

• Set and evolve the architectural direction for streaming detection infrastructure, intelligence pipelines, and automation systems
• Contribute through design documents, prototypes, and technical standards—staying out of critical-path delivery
• Guide how these platforms support practitioner-built automation: the APIs, workflow primitives, and extensibility that let security teams build detection authoring, enrichment, and validation workflows on the systems
• Ensure the Detection Engine, Case Management, and supporting systems expose the data, APIs, and integration points our AI SOC capabilities depend on, in close partnership with the AI/ML team that owns that initiative

Security Team Partnership (Daily / Ongoing)

• Work directly with Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and MXDR as the customers of these systems: intake their requirements, close feedback loops, and treat operator effectiveness as the primary measure of success
• Translate operational pain into engineering priorities, and engineering trade-offs back into terms practitioners can act on
• Partner with these teams on telemetry, alert-working workflows, hunt tooling, and case presentation improvements

Accountability (Ongoing)

Own outcomes including:

• System reliability and SLO attainment for the Detection Engine, TIP, and SOAR
• Delivery predictability and quality across both teams
• Team health, retention, and leadership development
• Track and improve metrics such as:
• Operator-reported tooling effectiveness (SOC, DE, TI acceptance and satisfaction)
• Incident frequency and time-to-recovery for owned systems
• Cycle time from accepted requirement to production

Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years in software or security engineering, including significant experience building security products or detection/response tooling
• 3+ years managing engineering teams, with experience managing 8+ engineers or multiple teams
• Experience developing team leads or first-line managers

Engineering Leadership

• Track record of owning production systems: on-call programs, incident management, SLOs
• Experience establishing delivery quality practices: acceptance criteria, review standards, release discipline
• Proven ability to set architectural direction while staying out of the critical path
• Experience running roadmap and prioritization processes across multiple teams

Technical Skills & Domain Expertise

• Strong background in data-intensive systems: streaming and log pipelines (Kafka, Logstash), analytical data stores (ClickHouse, MySQL), and parsing/enrichment (GROK)
• Proficiency with Go and Python service development, SQL, Git, and CI/CD tooling (Argo or similar)
• Experience with LLM/agent infrastructure: building or overseeing agentic workflows, model integration, or AI-assisted automation in production
• Working knowledge of the detection and response domain: how SOCs, detection engineering, and threat intelligence teams operate, how analysts work alerts, hunt, and manage cases, and what they need from their tooling
• Experience operating across organizational boundaries with shared infrastructure and platform teams
• Strong written communication: design documents, roadmaps, and decision records
• Ability to represent engineering trade-offs to security practitioners and security needs to engineering organizations

Nice to Have

• Experience at a security vendor building detection, SIEM, SOAR, or intelligence products
• Experience in an enterprise detection & response organization that built its own tooling
• Experience with MSP/MSSP or multi-tenant platform delivery

Todyl provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, genetic information, military status or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement listed. We're looking for the best person for the job who may bring a unique combination of skills and experiences that makes them exceptional, even if they don't check every box.