[Remote] Senior Engineering Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fingerprint empowers developers to stop online fraud at the source. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead across multiple teams, set technical vision, and drive cross-functional alignment while operating with executive accountability.ResponsibilitiesOwn outcomes across multiple teams or workstreams. At this level, your accountability extends beyond a single squad — you are responsible for the health, delivery, and strategic direction of your full domainDevelop other managers and senior engineers. Run substantive 1:1s, build succession plans, expose emerging leaders to cross-domain initiatives, and create the conditions for people on your team to grow beyond their current scopeBuild headcount plans proactively. Anticipate growth needs before they become capacity constraints and bring staffing proposals to leadership with rationale and timingDefine the architectural strategy for your domain. You are not just reviewing designs — you are setting the direction, identifying systemic risks, and making trade-offs visible to leadership before they become incidentsMentor other managers and senior ICs on complex technical trade-offs. Your technical credibility earns trust with engineers; your judgment on architectural decisions shapes how the team buildsProactively surface technical debt and infrastructure risk with a prioritized plan to address it — not after escalation, but before it jeopardizes delivery or reliabilityManage cross-domain dependencies. Align teams across team boundaries with unified direction. Other teams should initiate collaboration with you — not wait to be pulled inCommunicate roadmap priorities and risks proactively to the VP of Engineering and relevant stakeholders. Translate complex technical decisions into business context. Come with recommendations, not status updatesPartner with Engineering Leadership and Product on roadmap prioritization. Represent your function’s constraints, opportunities, and risks in planning processesResolve complex cross-team problems quickly and under pressure. Make decisions in ambiguity without waiting for full informationOwn your function’s budget, headcount planning, and operational health with minimal guidanceBring roadmap or architecture proposals unprompted. Think about your team’s impact on the broader engineering org, not just your immediate domainSkillsEngineering management experience: 5-7+ years managing engineering teams, with at least 2 years at a scope equivalent to managing multiple teams, a large team, or a function with cross-domain accountabilityDirect ownership of performance management, career development, and hiring — not just running standups or serving as a tech leadMulti-team or cross-domain leadership: You have operated beyond a single squad and navigated dependencies, competing priorities, and alignment challenges across team boundariesTechnical depth in your domain: You can set architectural direction, evaluate complex proposals, and earn credibility with senior engineers through substance — not just titleA delivery track record: Concrete examples of how your teams shipped reliably, and what you specifically did when they didn't. You take ownership of slippage, not just credit for winsStrong cross-functional communication: You translate technical constraints and opportunities into language that PMs, Finance, and executive leadership can act on. You do not wait to be askedComfort navigating ambiguity: You do not need a fully-defined mandate to lead effectively. You define the problem, structure the path forward, and bring others alongDeep AWS expertise: EKS (Kubernetes), IAM, VPC, RDS — at production scale, not just familiarityModern DevOps stack: GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) — you have lived in this stack, not just managed people who haveFinOps experience: Proven track record managing seven-figure cloud budgets with measurable cost reduction outcomesSRE mindset: You think in SLOs, blameless retrospectives, and incident response frameworks — and you build cultures that do tooTotal technology experience: 10+ years in technology overallGenuine breadth across all three disciplines: application security, IT operations, and compliance/GRC. You do not need to be the deepest practitioner in each, but you must be credible enough to set direction, evaluate the work, and make hard prioritization calls across all threeSOC 2 ownership: You have run or been the primary owner of a SOC 2 audit cycle — not just participated. You understand sustainable control operations versus annual scramble modeApplication security depth: OWASP familiarity, vulnerability management programs (Snyk or equivalent), security review processes for engineering teamsIT operations leadership: Identity and access management (Okta or equivalent), endpoint management, remote workforce IT at scale7+ years in security, IT, or GRC with at least 3 years managing a teamExperience in a high-growth B2B SaaS or API-first company where the scope of your function grew significantly during your tenureFamiliarity with fraud detection, identity, device intelligence, or trust and safety domainsFor Cloud Platform: Cloudflare (WAF, Workers, CDN), SOC 2 compliance, zero-trust architecture, or experience scaling infrastructure through an order-of-magnitude traffic growthFor Security & IT: ISO 27001, GDPR, or HIPAA experience; enterprise security questionnaire ownership; Wiz, Cloudflare, or Snyk stack familiarityCompany OverviewThe highest accuracy device identity platform for high-scale applications It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://fingerprint.com.