EngineeringManager

THE WORLD’S MOST ADVANCED VPN, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE. If you’re a curious problem-solver who carves their own path, join the team behind Threat Protection Pro, the NordLynx protocol, and the fastest VPN on the planet—tools that put privacy, security, and control back in people’s hands. Your impact? Helping millions take back control of their online security, privacy, and data. Key qualities and behaviors of a successful leader at Nord Security https://nordsecurity.com/leadership MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES - Platform Strategy & Vision: Define and drive the internal platform strategy aligned with company-wide engineering goals; identify high-leverage opportunities to reduce friction and improve developer productivity; balance standardization vs. flexibility to create reusable building blocks without slowing teams down; - Developer Experience (DevEx): Own and improve the end-to-end developer journey from local dev to production; reduce cognitive load through self-service infrastructure, golden paths and clear abstractions; leverage and integrate AI-driven tools to improve developer productivity, debugging and operational workflows. - People Leadership: Lead and grow a team of SREs, fostering a culture of ownership, learning and psychological safety. - Reliability Strategy: Drive the strategy for improving the availability, performance and efficiency of services. - Cross-Team Enablement: Partner closely with SRE, Procurement and Product teams to understand pain points and priorities; act as a force multiplier enabling teams rather than becoming a bottleneck. - Operational Excellence: Embed SRE principles into platform solutions (SLOs, error budgets, observability by default); continuously reduce operational toil across engineering teams; - Incident Management: Oversee response and follow-up of major incidents, ensuring robust root cause analysis and corrective actions; - Mentorship & Growth: Foster an environment where engineers are challenged, supported, and provided opportu