Engineering Manager

Two Six Technologies•Arlington, VA

14d•$169,000 - $215,000•Remote

About The Position

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future. Two Six Technologies is seeking a hands-on Engineering Leader to manage the team responsible for Trusted Keep, our zero trust data security product protecting some of the most sensitive information in the federal government. Trusted Keep gives organizations a single, unified way to lock down data wherever it lives, whether on-premise or across multiple clouds, so that only authorized people and systems can ever reach that data. Trusted Keep replaces the patchwork of point security tools organizations rely on today with one proven system that's been protecting national security missions around the clock for years. This role has a dual focus on people leadership and technical contribution. You will coach, mentor, and ensure strong technical execution by the team, while partnering closely with Product leadership to shape and drive the roadmap. You will also stay hands-on as an active senior-level contributor, close enough to the code to lead by example. This is a remote position with travel a few times a year. You need to live in the U.S., ideally on the East Coast.

Requirements

10+ years of related IT and Engineering experience
Experience as an Engineering Manager leading a single team of remote and on-site engineers, with both performance and delivery ownership
Background in systems languages (Go, Rust, Java, C++, or C#) and distributed systems, sufficient to follow technical designs and verify engineering estimates in any of these languages
A proven track record of shipping quality software on time
Experience growing and improving an engineering team without disrupting delivery
Experience partnering closely with strong senior engineers on technical direction, balancing collaboration and discussion with the need to make decisions and execute
Experience with Product Engineering and Agile practices, a history of working closely with Product leads

Nice To Haves

Go experience
Linux systems admin: permissions and mounts, OS-level debugging
Cloud platform experience
Infrastructure-as-code tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt)
Security domain experience: HSMs, cryptography, mTLS, PKI, and certificate lifecycle management
KMS/HSM internals: envelope encryption, key wrapping, key hierarchies, and key lifecycle
KMIP protocol experience
OAuth2/OIDC and identity provider integration (e.g., Keycloak)
WebAuthn/FIDO2
Policy engines (OPA/Rego)
Messaging systems (NATS, JetStream)
Experience managing engineers building for hardened-hardware, on-premise, or non-cloud-native deployments

Responsibilities

Leading the team: having regular one on one meetings, coaching, guiding career development, and building a strong team culture centered on collaboration
Owning team composition: interviews, hiring, and advocating for the team with leadership as needs evolve
Managing performance and compensation: conducting reviews, delivering feedback, recommending promotions
Collaborating with Product leadership: shaping the roadmap, estimating and prioritizing work, negotiating scope and timelines, reporting status
Owning engineering delivery: supporting team through all phases from discovery & design through release, refining and holding team to engineering standards, unblocking work when necessary
Contributing at a senior level: designing and implementing complex features while helping to raise the engineering skills of other team members
Partnering with senior engineering leadership: on technical direction, architecture, and championing mature engineering practices (CI/CD, QA discipline, infrastructure-as-code)