Fingerprint
Fraud Detection
SeniorEngineeringManager
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“Senior Engineering Manager at Fingerprint. Skills: Engineering management, Technical vision, Cross-functional alignment. Lead Across Domains. Develop other managers and senior engineers”
What You'll Achieve.
Own outcomes across multiple teams or workstreams; health, delivery, and strategic direction of your full domain; Build succession plans; Anticipate growth needs before they become capacity constraints; Define the architectural strategy for your domain; identifying systemic risks; making trade-offs visible to leadership; Proactively surface technical debt and infrastructure risk with a prioritized plan to address it; Align teams across team boundaries with unified direction; Operate with Executive Accountability; Think about your team’s impact on the broader engineering org
Industry & Context.
Resolve complex cross-team problems quickly and under pressure; Make decisions in ambiguity without waiting for full information
authorized to work from their home location, do not sponsor visas
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Engineering management experience: 5-7+ years managing engineering teams, at least 2 years at a scope equivalent to managing multiple teams, a large team, or a function with cross-domain accountability, Direct ownership of performance management, career development, and hiring, Multi-team or cross-domain leadership, Technical depth in your domain, A delivery track record, cross-functional communication, Comfort navigating ambiguity
Nice to Have
Experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS or API-first company where the scope of your function grew significantly during your tenure, Familiarity with fraud detection, identity, device intelligence, or trust and safety domains, Cloudflare (WAF, Workers, CDN), SOC 2 compliance, zero-trust architecture, experience scaling infrastructure through an order-of-magnitude traffic growth, Wiz, Cloudflare, Snyk stack familiarity, Deep AWS expertise: EKS (Kubernetes), IAM, VPC, RDS — at production scale, Modern DevOps stack: GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), FinOps experience, SRE mindset, Genuine breadth across all three disciplines: application security, IT operations, and compliance/GRC, SOC 2 ownership, Application security depth: OWASP familiarity, vulnerability management programs (Snyk or equivalent), security review processes for engineering teams, IT operations leadership: Identity and access management (Okta or equivalent), endpoint management, remote workforce IT at scale, 7+ years in security, IT, or GRC with at least 3 years managing a team
What You'll Do.
Develop other managers and senior engineers
Build headcount plans proactively
Mentor other managers and senior ICs
Proactively surface technical debt
Drive Cross-Functional Alignment
Manage cross-domain dependencies
Communicate roadmap priorities
Translate complex technical decisions
Partner with Engineering Leadership
Operate with Executive Accountability
Resolve complex cross-team problems
Make decisions in ambiguity
Own your function’s budget
Bring roadmap or architecture proposals
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Own outcomes across multiple teams or workstreams; Build succession plans; expose emerging leaders to cross-domain initiatives; create the conditions for people on your team to grow; Align teams across team boundaries; Other teams should initiate collaboration with you; Partner with Engineering Leadership and Product
Communication Scope
cross-functional communication; Translate complex technical decisions into business context; Communicate roadmap priorities and risks proactively
Process & Methodology
Build headcount plans proactively, Manage cross-domain dependencies, Communicate roadmap priorities and risks proactively, Partner with Engineering Leadership and Product on roadmap prioritization, Represent your function’s constraints, opportunities, and risks in planning processes, Resolve complex cross-team problems quickly and under pressure, Make decisions in ambiguity without waiting for full information, Own your function’s budget, headcount planning, and operational health
Full Job Description
Fingerprint empowers developers to stop online fraud at the source. We work on turning radical new ideas in the fraud detection space into reality. Our products are developer-focused and our clients range from solo developers to publicly traded companies. We are a globally dispersed, 100% remote company with a strong open-source focus. Our flagship open-source project is FingerprintJS (27K stars on GitHub). We have raised $77M and are backed by Craft Ventures (previously invested in Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb ), Nexus Venture Partners (previously invested in Postman, Apollo.io, MinIO, Druva) and Uncorrelated Ventures (previously invested in Redis, Rollbar you are the person who owns that answer. This role deliberately spans three disciplines that are often separated at larger companies — and at Fingerprint’s scale, that breadth is a feature: the person who owns compliance also owns the security posture that makes compliance meaningful, and the person who owns IT operations also owns the identity and access foundation that security depends on. What You’ll Do Lead Across Domains Own 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 domain. Develop 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 scope. Build headcount plans proactively. Anticipate growth needs before they become capacity constraints and bring staffing proposals to leadership with rationale and timing. Set Technical Vision Define 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 incidents. Mentor other managers and senior ICs on complex technical t
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