Software Engineering Manager, Agent Engineering

Software Engineering Manager, Agent Engineering

Location: Hyderabad India

Secureworks® (NASDAQ: SCWX) a global cybersecurity leader, enables our customers and partners to outpace and outmaneuver adversaries with more precision, so they can rapidly adapt and respond to market forces to meet their business needs. With a unique combination of cloud-native, SaaS security platform and intelligence-driven security solutions, informed by 20+ years of threat intelligence and research, no other security platform is grounded and informed with this much real-world experience. www.secureworks.com

We enjoy competitive compensation and benefits packages, and reward and recognize our employees for exceptional results. A constant focus on continued learning and growth keeps our team members engaged and excited about “what’s next.” We offer flexible work options when available and emphasize the importance of work-life balance. We know that when our people are rewarded, recognized, and rejuvenated, we win as a team. 

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on manager with strong technical knowledge in software development, operating systems, networking and cybersecurity to provide a powerful combination of leadership, operational support and mentoring for our agent engineering staff.  In this role you will work with a geographically distributed team of developers that have built native platform agents in modern C++ across our three biggest platforms: Windows, Linux and MAC.  Our goal is to “own the endpoint” from a security perspective and as such our agent teams are responsible for all software that runs on the endpoint in the customer environment.

What we expect to see

• Able to attract, excite, and retain a team of highly motivated individual contributors.  

• Drive positive change across the entire engineering team to improve the quality, scalability, and supportability of our production software.

• 7+ years of engineering experience as an individual contributor.  You have built customer facing products.
  

•  2+ years of experience as an engineering manager.  You have people managed before and have directly managed at least 3 ENGs.
  

• Ability to collaborate with our cross-functional partners in Product Management, Detection Research and other engineering teams to prioritize roadmap items and deliver outstanding results.
  

• Understanding of computer science and networking fundamentals
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• Understanding of Scrum/Kanban and how to apply them pragmatically with a team to drive progress.

What we like to see (but not required)

• Knowledge and understanding of computer security concepts such as penetration testing, vulnerability analysis and prevention, exploit prevention, reverse engineering, etc.

• Prior experience managing a team building products using a systems programming oriented language such as C/C++ or Rust.

Secureworks is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Secureworks are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Secureworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

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