Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering

SpyCloud is on a mission to make the internet a safer place by disrupting the criminal underground. SpyCloud’s solutions thwart cyberattacks and protect more than 4 billion accounts worldwide. Cybersecurity is an exciting, evolving space, and being at the forefront of the fight to disrupt cybercrime makes SpyCloud a special place to work. If you’re driven to align your career with a fantastic mission, look no further!

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering to lead our core platform team. Our product engineering teams are stream-aligned, each owning a slice of SpyCloud’s products end to end, and they are your customers. Your team will build and run the internal platform they ship on, so they can focus on disrupting cybercrime instead of wrestling with infrastructure, pipelines, and tooling.

This is a product role as much as an engineering one. You’ll treat the platform as a product, earn adoption rather than mandate it, and measure success by how much cognitive load you remove from the teams you serve. We value collaboration, transparency, and a culture of continuous improvement, and most importantly, we believe in keeping work fun!

Our Tech Stack

• Programming languages: Go, TypeScript, Python
• Relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Databricks
• NoSQL databases: ElasticSearch, DynamoDB
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Terraform
• Operating systems: Linux

What You'll Do:

• Lead, hire, and grow a team of platform engineers, coaching them toward product thinking and genuine empathy for the developers they serve.
• Own the platform vision and roadmap as a product, prioritizing through direct discovery with stream-aligned teams and being explicit about what the platform won’t do.
• Publish and maintain a team charter defining what the platform offers as a service, its SLOs, its support model, and how teams engage with you.
• Measure success by pairing DORA metrics with developer satisfaction, golden path adoption, and self-service ratios, and use the results to drive priorities.
• Run the platform as a dependable product with SLOs, versioning, and on-call, and lead platform-wide migrations so the platform team carries the burden instead of every product team.
• Evaluate, roll out, and measure AI-assisted development tools across engineering.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including hands-on work in platform engineering.
• 3-5 years of experience leading engineering teams (4+ individuals), ideally platform, engineering, or developer tooling teams.
• A track record of running an internal platform as a product: you can explain who your internal customers were, what you chose not to build, and how adoption and satisfaction changed.
• Experience operating highly available systems in AWS, with working knowledge of containers, infrastructure as code (Terraform), CI/CD, and observability.
• Strong technical judgment and a hands-on approach, you make sound architectural and build-vs-buy decisions and aren’t afraid to get into the code when needed.
• Experience using DORA metrics, SLOs, and developer experience surveys to set priorities and communicate platform value.
• Excellent communication and the ability to influence without authority, including leading cross-team migrations with teams you don’t manage.

Base Salary Range: $150,000 – $195,000

The salary range reflects the expected base compensation for a fully qualified candidate at this level based on experience, qualifications, and market data at the time of posting.

U.S.-Based Benefits + Perks (for Full Time Employees):

At SpyCloud, we are committed to working alongside individuals who are equally passionate about preventing cybercrime, regardless of their department or role. Guided by our core values in all business decisions, we prioritize unity in our mission and ensure all SpyCloud employees have the support and benefits they need to stay focused on our goals. In addition to our engaging workspace in South Austin, flexible and remote-friendly work options, and competitive salary package, we offer our employees a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• 401(k) with Employer Contribution
• Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) available with Employer Contribution
• Employer Paid Life, Short-term, and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Generous PTO Plan and 16 paid holidays per year

U.K.-Based Benefits + Perks (for Full Time Employees):

• Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Contribution
• Employer Provided Private Health Insurance and Healthcare Cashplan
• Employer Paid Life Insurance, Income Replacement, and Critical Illness Protection
• Employee Assistance Program
• 25 days annual accrued holiday plus 8 paid bank holidays and a paid company shutdown during winter holidays

About SpyCloud:

SpyCloud transforms recaptured darknet data to disrupt cybercrime. Its automated identity threat protection solutions use advanced analytics and AI to accelerate investigations and  protect workforce, consumer, and supplier identities from the threats that matter most: authentication bypass, session hijacking, malicious insiders, account takeover, ransomware, and fraud. Its data from malware-infected devices, successful phishes, combolists, and third-party breaches also powers many popular dark web monitoring and identity theft protection offerings. Customers include 7 of the Fortune 10, along with hundreds of global enterprises, mid-sized companies, and government agencies worldwide. Headquartered in Austin, TX, SpyCloud is home to more than 250 cybersecurity experts whose mission is to protect businesses and consumers from the stolen identity data criminals are using to target them now.

To learn more and see insights on your company's exposed data, visit spycloud.com.

Our Mission:

Our mission is to make the internet a safer place by disrupting the criminal underground. Together with our customers and partners, we aim to end criminals’ ability to profit from stolen information.

Who We Are:

SpyCloud is a place for innovative, collaborative, and problem-solvers to thrive. Individually, we’re amazing, but together, we’re unstoppable. We celebrate diversity and various perspectives and aim to create an inclusive and supportive environment for all. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer of choice. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under federal, state, or local law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. SpyCloud complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

SpyCloud expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment. Improper interference with the ability of SpyCloud's employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge. SpyCloud shares the right to work and participates in the E-Verify program in all locations.

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Our Culture:

Our culture is something really special. We’re all driven to disrupt the cybercriminal economy as we keep customer accounts safe from compromise. We support a truly worthy and serious mission, but we have fun doing it together. If you are driven, inventive, and collaborative, you’ll fit right in.

SpyCloud’s Recruitment Policy:

We will never ask an applicant for sensitive or personal financial information during the recruitment process. We advise all applicants seeking employment with SpyCloud to review available information on recruitment fraud. Anyone who suspects that they have been contacted by someone falsely representing SpyCloud should email careers@spycloud.com.

Compensation Transparency Policy:

At SpyCloud, we believe in transparency and fairness in compensation. We strive to ensure that all employees are fairly compensated for their contributions, and we openly discuss our compensation philosophy and structure. We are committed to providing competitive salaries and benefits packages to attract and retain top talent, and we encourage open dialogue and feedback regarding compensation matters.

Learn more and apply: SpyCloud Careers

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