Engineering Manager - SRE & Data Platform

About Us

At Todyl, we are on a mission to protect small and medium-sized businesses from ever-changing cyber threats. The Todyl platform fully integrates threat, risk, and compliance management to provide exceptional and affordable unified cybersecurity solutions to MSPs (Managed Service Providers) and their end customers.

At the end of the day, we’re here to keep our partners and customers safe and help them manage the risks and comply with regulations. Protecting others requires a team that works together with trust and cares deeply about carrying out our mission.

About the Role

Engineering leaders play to their strengths, but are aligned to Todyl’s mission and demonstrate the leadership qualities that we’ve found to be most effective. These include building trust and empathy within their teams, caring deeply about our customers and business needs, and fostering a team culture that encourages autonomy, ownership and psychological safety.

In this role, we’re looking for a candidate who:

• Subscribes to our core values and believes that empowering engineers is the way to build exceptional products.

• Uses their technical expertise to maintain engineering excellence in the products we build while fostering an environment where engineers can grow to their full potential.

• Has a bias for action and is able to make tough decisions, knowing that transparency, clarity and iteration provide teams the best path to success.

• Takes ownership when things go wrong and works actively to make them right.

• Is comfortable taking ambiguous business problems and help their team execute against them with clarity, focus and purpose.

An Engineering Manager is a product and technology leader at Todyl, and fundamentally decides how their group of teams run and are accountable for the success of their teams.

• You'll collaborate closely with Product, Security and Architecture leaders as your core partnership team, tackling complex security challenges that directly impact our customers.

• Working within Todyl's product vision, you'll provide direction and clarity across the 1-3 engineering teams in your organization.

• You'll bring deep technical insight combined with strong customer empathy and product understanding to drive strategic decisions within your leadership group.

• You'll work with engineering leaders across Todyl to strengthen our development practices and delivery capabilities. Our platform handles critical security workloads that push the limits of our infrastructure and tooling.

• You'll maintain high standards for your teams while taking time to understand root causes before making judgments.

• You'll coach your direct reports to develop the engineering and leadership principles they need to advance in their careers.

• You’ll share on-call responsibilities with your teams, stepping in as needed for escalations and guidance.

• You'll represent Todyl's mission and engineering culture to potential hires, playing an active role in sourcing and recruiting top talent to join our teams.

Important note: Engineering managers at Todyl begin their role by spending approximately 3 months working as an individual contributor alongside the team they'll be leading. Additionally, they re-embed as ICs for 1 sprint quarterly to stay technically current. Activecoding and hands-on technical involvement are core expectations of this position. A coding assessment will be part of our interview process. Please feel free to ask any questions about this approach during your interviews.

We don’t expect Engineering Managers to have in-depth knowledge across our entire tech stack, but familiarity with the following areas would be helpful in this specific role of SRE & Data Platform Engineering Manager. Most importantly, a strong technical background with the ability and willingness to learn new technologies as needed.

• Go, Rust, Python

• MySQL, NoSQL Databases, Object Storage

• Kubernetes, Argo, Containerization

• Kafka & RedPanda

• Salt, Terraform

• Linux

• Networking

• Git, CI/CD

• Grafana & Prometheus

• AWS & bare metal systems

What We Offer

For full-time employees, Todyl offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Health savings and flexible spending accounts (HSA/FSA)

• Life insurance

• Short- and long-term disability

• Access to on-demand healthcare and telehealth services

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Flexible PTO in addition to 13 company holidays

• 401(k)

• Generous parental leave programs

Salary range for this position is $180,000-220,000 and the actual annual salary for this role will depend on each candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location of work, with most new hires placed near the midpoint of the posted range to ensure fairness and consistency across our team.

Todyl provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, genetic information, military status or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement listed. We're looking for the best person for the job who may bring a unique combination of skills and experiences that makes them exceptional, even if they don't check every box.