Every day, the world gets more digital thanks to tens of millions of developers building the future faster than ever. But with exponential growth comes exponential risk, as outnumbered security teams struggle to secure mountains of code. This is where Snyk (pronounced “sneak”) comes in. Snyk is a developer security platform that makes it easy for development teams to find, prioritize, and fix security vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure — and do it all right from the start. Snyk is on a mission to make the world a more secure place by empowering developers to develop fast and stay secure.
Joining Snyk means embracing our core values: One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment where fostering collaboration, leading with empathy, driving business impact, and inspiring trust are at the heart of everything we do.
Our Opportunity:
We’re seeking an experienced and collaborative engineering manager to lead Snyk’s Runtime team. This role will appeal to you if you are passionate about shifting-left runtime signals to support AppSec activities, leveraging deep knowledge of cloud environments, language runtimes, and low-level instrumentation techniques. You will build scalable solutions that help developers and AppSec teams effectively prioritize their efforts to reduce the risk of their applications.
You’ll Spend Your Time:
- You’ll be the technical owner and leader of Snyk’s runtime capabilities - shaping the vision and technical designs based on a large set of potential tools.
- You’ll be accountable for co-developing the team roadmap and participate actively in the day to day development with team members.
- People - you’ll be responsible for the hiring of any new members in your team, onboarding and training great engineers. You’ll be involved in career development, pay, promotion and performance reviews.
- Processes - you’ll help the team learn, adapt and improve upon agile and lean methodologies. You’ll help the teams understand and maintain a balance between delivery speed and product quality. You’ll be responsible for the team’s on-call process and rota, and be a point of escalation for incidents.
- Building Snyk’s runtime capabilities - collecting runtime signals from various sources (Snyk’s Runtime Sensor, 3rd party APIs) and correlating them with data from Snyk’s different scanners to provide powerful prioritization, discovery and automation.
- Designing, developing, and maintaining systems to capture and process runtime data using technologies such as eBPF and other observability techniques.
- Analyzing, designing and implementing high-quality solutions to problems with well-tested, maintainable code.
- Building systems with the long-term in mind, focusing on good design, robust testing, and sustainability from the perspective of cost and scale.
What You'll Need:
- At Snyk, each team is composed of an Engineering Manager (that's you!) and several Engineers. The team regularly collaborates with architects from across the division, as well as Product Managers.
- We are a distributed organization, with the Runtime team based mostly in Israel.
- While we have a strong culture of collaboration, our teams are empowered and encouraged to set and drive their direction and priorities - to define how their work will ladder up to our strategic objectives. We don’t have a culture of micro-management. Instead, it is a culture of support, coaching, facilitation and deep care.
- At least 2 years of commercial experience as an Engineering Manager.
- Experience in large-scale software systems design, and familiarity with fundamental computer science concepts (algorithms, complexity, data structures).
- Proficiency in at least one of our core programming languages (Go, TypeScript), and a willingness and enthusiasm for learning new languages and technologies.
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker and containerization, cloud providers), language runtimes and networking.
- Knowledge of different language ecosystems (compiled / interpreted / runtime-based) - compilation, runtime execution, dependencies.
- Advantage - knowledge and understanding of different instrumentation techniques (kernel-level/eBPF, application-level).
- Experience in building highly reliable, scalable microservice back-ends for web APIs or applications, or other types of large-scale, high reliability systems.
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We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!
About Snyk
Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups, to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk.
Benefits & Programs
Prioritize health, wellness, financial security, and life balance with programs tailored to your location and role.
- Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development
- Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
- Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance
- Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances
