Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) as an Engineering Manager to lead the SecureDrop development team. Reporting to the CTO, you will manage a remote, international team of software engineers working on SecureDrop, an open-source whistleblower submission platform used by major news organizations globally. Your responsibilities include mentoring the team, facilitating goal development, managing the development process, overseeing the budget, and collaborating with external vendors. The ideal candidate possesses extensive engineering leadership and people management experience, agile project stewardship skills, and a commitment to public-interest journalism. This full-time role offers a competitive salary and benefits package. The position is preferably based in Brooklyn, but strong U.S.-based remote candidates will be considered.

Requirements

• Proven engineering leadership and people management experience: three-plus years of experience as a software or infrastructure engineer, and four-plus years as a manager for a team that ships production code
• Agile project stewardship: demonstrated ability to run sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming, or comparable team processes for a distributed team
• Hiring and capacity building: experience crafting role definitions, running inclusive interview and review processes, and onboarding new engineers
• Commitment to public-interest journalism: You’re motivated to advance press freedom and whistleblower protection through open source technology

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a high-performing team, fostering a collaborative, mission-driven culture
• Help address impediments or blockers to your team’s progress, be they administrative, technical, or organizational
• Facilitate the development of individual and team goals, and, in collaboration with the team’s tech lead, make regular updates to the SecureDrop development road map
• Represent team members within the organization, while creating opportunities for your team to do so as well
• Develop best practices in asynchronous collaboration, including clear documentation of discussions and decisions
• Provide performance reviews, and plan and implement compensation changes in coordination with leadership and HR
• Identify key capacity gaps within the team and act as hiring manager for agreed-upon hires on your team
• Ensure effective planning and facilitation of team meetings in the context of a distributed team spanning multiple time zones
• Manage the development process and ensure effective, agile project management of the SecureDrop team’s commitments
• Manage and oversee the SecureDrop team’s budget, and collaborate with the fundraising team on grant proposals and other fundraising initiatives
• Manage relationships with external vendors for purposes such as security audits or project-level engagements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to or managing open source projects with external contributors and stakeholders
• Practical experience with secure software development life cycles, threat modeling, incident response, and coordinating independent security audits
• Experience leading asynchronous teams across time zones
• Working knowledge of Python, Rust, Git, and other technologies used as part of SecureDrop development

Benefits

This is a full-time role with a competitive nonprofit salary in the range of USD $155,000-165,000/year, depending on experience