Smart Signals Engineering Manager

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Lead the team. Own 1:1s, performance calibrations, career development, and hiring.
• - Set the bar for code quality, on-call discipline, and delivery.
• - Coach intentionally — especially engineers approaching Staff.
• - Drive execution. Own sprint planning and roadmap delivery.
• - Manage scope, urgency, and quality tradeoffs — know when to ship and when to slow down.
• - Run tight processes: planning, incident response, on-call rotations, postmortems.
• - Stay technically grounded. Maintain enough depth in the signals stack to review designs, challenge architectural decisions, and surface risks before they become incidents.
• - Partner with ML Engineers on signal pipelines and model deployment.
• - Coordinate across teams. Represent Smart Signals in technical discussions across Engineering.
• - Manage cross-team dependencies proactively and communicate tradeoffs clearly to PMs and leadership.
• - Shape signal strategy. Partner with Eng Leadership and Product on roadmap prioritization.
• - Translate research findings into executable engineering plans.
• - Contribute to detection strategy as the threat landscape evolves.

Required Skills

• - Required Engineering management experience: 4+ years managing a team of 8–10 engineers.
• - Technical depth in backend systems: You have built or operated production backend services at scale.
• - Delivery track record: Concrete examples — with outcomes and numbers — of quarters where your team shipped reliably.
• - Cross-functional collaboration: Direct experience working with PMs and research or data partners to translate requirements into executable engineering plans.
• - Nice-to-Have Fraud detection or security signals familiarity: Some exposure to fraud, risk, or device intelligence systems.
• - ML-in-production exposure: You've worked alongside ML engineers or data scientists shipping models to production.
• - High-growth B2B SaaS or API-first company experience.
• - Real-time or latency-sensitive systems: Experience managing engineers working on signal pipelines.