Senior Engineering Manager

Location: India - Bengaluru

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Senior Engineering Manager – Threat Protection

The driving force behind the scanning platform at Mimecast

Dive into the forefront of innovation with our Gateway Security team, where we scan massive volumes of email traffic for our customers! Our pioneering Email Platform pushes on the boundaries of what’s possible, leveraging the latest technologies and tooling in AWS

Why Join Our Team?

“The Gateway Security team, within the Threat Protection group, is responsible for developing the cutting edge scanning technology at the heart of Mimecast’s protection stack, scanning over 2 billion emails, files, and URLs daily. If you’re interested in solving customer challenges at immense scale, then this is the role for you!”

What You’ll Do

As an Engineering Manager for the Gateway Security team, you will be instrumental in forming and scaling high-performing teams, offering dedicated support for individual growth and career progression. Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams distributed globally, including Product Managers, Project Managers, Architects, and Engineers, to define project milestones and deliverables.

• Engage closely with the HR and Recruitment teams to attract, onboard, scale, and retain exceptional engineering talent.

• Have experience managing teams working at scale with on prem and/or cloud technologies

• Identify and mitigate technical risks associated with projects, ensuring smooth and reliable operation.

• Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture, ensuring effective communication and knowledge sharing.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging standards and best practices, to maintain high-quality software development.

• Monitor and analyze AWS usage, working with senior management and engineer teams to provide recommendations for cost savings.

What You’ll Bring:

• Strong communication skills with experience in effectively communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Successful track record of project leadership, including planning, execution, and delivery of complex projects with predictability.

• Strong technical background in software engineering, with hands-on experience in designing and developing backend services at scale within AWS.

• Experience in building and scaling high-performing engineering teams, including recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing talent development.

• Experience in establishing and enforcing coding standards, best practices, and quality assurance processes to maintain high-quality software development.

• Experience managing hybrid cloud environments is advantegeous

What We Bring

Join our Threat Protection group to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.

Mimecast offers formal and on the job learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and importantly - working in cross functional teams to build your knowledge!

We believe in ‘growth that’s good, we have ‘a culture that cares’ and we are on a ‘mission that matters’.

Our Hybrid Model: We provide you with the flexibility to live balanced, healthy lives through our hybrid working model that champions both collaborative teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees are expected to come to the office at least two days per week, because working together in person:

• Fosters a culture of collaboration, communication, performance and learning

• Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams

• Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm

• Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!

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Belonging at Mimecast

Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.

We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.

Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.