CTO / VP of Engineering

About Wallarm

Join the cyber future with Wallarm. We are a global remote-first team of 70 people on 2 continents and 7 time zones. More than 300 enterprise customers, including Fortune 500, Nasdaq, and high-growth startups choose Wallarm to protect their API and web applications. Our story starts from the deep security knowledge we proved by bug bounties, research, and consultancy that continues by award-winning product industry trust. 

If you are a bright and energetic hackers’ manager, interested in cutting-edge tech, and want to make a difference in the company’s life, Wallarm is a place for you. Together we can make our digital world more secure.

What you will do

You’ll be leading the distributed remote-first Wallarm engineering team to build and scale the cloud-native products that protect APIs and applications of some of the most loaded websites in the world.

We are looking for a trustworthy and proactive engineering manager with many years’ engineering/development experience and proven leadership skills. You will be reporting to the HQ-based CEO of the company. You will be managing several development teams (backend/Ruby/Go/Python, frontend/ReactJS, node/C), and DevOps/SRE team. In this position, you will play a key role in the overall success of our organization by planning, managing, and monitoring engineering functions. You will be responsible for a very crisp engineering roadmap to deliver on our product promises. 

You’ll be free in making any necessary adjustments in order to ensure the company’s successful completion.

To be successful as an engineering manager, you should have exceptional foresight, great communication skills, working knowledge of different engineering disciplines and how they relate to one another, and an aptitude for managing risk. You should have prior organizational leadership experience, be able to collaborate with team members, and be a strategic problem-solver. Ultimately, a top-notch engineering manager should demonstrate an excellent ability to connect with other engineers and developers and have a solid foundation in software design.

• Serve as the ultimate engineering leader and technical expert
• Plan and execute strategies for completing projects and launching product updates on time
• Lead the teams through management and mentorship
• Create detailed engineering plans, processes, and procedures for engineering staff to use and abide by
• Determine the need for training and talent development
• Monitor and determine various staffing and training needs
• Spearhead various research and development initiatives to identify opportunities for new projects and improved processes
• Communicate and collaborate with other managers, suppliers, and contractors
• Prepare and deliver various engineering-related presentations, both internally and externally

What You’ll Bring (Engineering Manager Requirements)

• 10+ years experience or equivalent, including at least 6+ years of managing a team of 30+ software engineers and DevOps/SRE teams
• SaaS products building experience in an agile way
• Experience driving career growth for early-in-career, mid-level, and senior engineers and engineering manager
• Experience with hiring skilled, diverse talent from around the world, including personal brand
• The ability to synthesize all inputs and develop a very crisp engineering roadmap to deliver on our product promises
• A proven track record of incredibly impressive product launches
• Knowledge about industry trends, best practices, and change management
• CET+-3 time-zone working hours

We’re Especially Excited About Candidates Who

• Have led and grown a world-class engineering team
• Have extensive experience with developer-first and API-first development
• Have experience building, scaling, and continuously innovating complex technical products
• Have experience building products that run in customer cloud environments
• Have extensive experience building products for Security/Engineering buyers

Our technological stack

• Ruby on Rails, Python, Golang, Perl
• Rspec, Pytest
• Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, GKE, Helm
• MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Riak, Redis, Tarantool
• Terraform, Ansible, Puppet
• Jenkins, GitLab CI
• Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry
• Nginx and Envoy proxy modules in C/C++

How we will move

We highly appreciate your time and would like to have a 30-min talk to you telling about this role and Wallarm, answering questions and checking if it’s still interesting for you to move forward.

0.  30-min meeting with CEO and HRD

1. An interview with VP Security solutions and CFO
2. An interview with CPO
3. An interview with HRD and CFO
4. Signing NDA and deep dive into with VP Security solutions and CEO
5. working on 30/60/90 plan
6. Finalization with CPO and CEO
7. A call with engineering team leads
8. Offer

This role is highly important for us, and we believe we will find a really good member for our Executive and Wallarm teams!

What We Offer

• Your ideas impact an entire application and API security industry worldwide
• Emotional feedback from the real security values Wallarm delivers to world-famous customers
• A unique experience in contribution to the top security startup
• Free-to-action engineering capabilities in a combination with a brilliant team
• The chance to work in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact
• Competitive salary and bonuses
• Generous wellness reimbursement