Introduction

As the Engineering Manager for the Vault Cryptosec team, you will lead a new high-performing team responsible for advancing the product’s security, scalability, and enterprise readiness for our self-managed offerings. You will drive Engineering to deliver on cryptographic workflows, including PKI and HSM related functionality. This role will require productive collaboration with the current Engineering team as well as the Design, Security, Product teams and other cross-functional partners to innovate toward true product-market fit.

Your role and responsibilities

• Maintain deep expertise in Vault’s architecture and cryptographic features; guide technical decisions, prioritization, and long‑term scalability.
• Drive execution on feature requests and enhancements that improve security, scalability, and enterprise readiness.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Security, and other teams to align on vision and deliver customer‑focused solutions.
• Prioritize customer issues and feedback to continuously improve product quality and user experience.
• Establish and refine and improve processes to ensure high availability, reliability, and overall quality.
• Recruit, mentor, and lead a high‑performing, diverse engineering team; foster an inclusive, collaborative culture.

Required education

• Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

• Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 10+ years of professional engineering experience, including at least 3 years in an engineering management role leading and scaling product engineering teams delivering complex customer-facing systems.
• Proficiency in Go; working knowledge of additional languages such as Java or C/C++.
• Proven experience building, operating or overseeing secure, reliable production-grade systems.
• Hands-on experience designing, building or operating cryptographic systems/services such as PKI, HSMs, TLS,key management,idm,IAM,etc.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex security-critical technical challenges; make sound architectural/risk-based decisions; deliver durable high-impact solutions.
• Strong communication/collaboration skills; ability to align engineering execution with customer needs/security expectations/business priorities.
• Proven track record of hiring/mentoring/developing high-performing teams in fast-paced evolving environments.

Preferred technical/professional experience

• Deep experience designing/operating cloud-based infrastructure/distributed systems with strong proficiency across major cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience supporting security audits/compliance initiatives such as SOC 2,FIPS 140‑2/140‑3,FedRAMP or similar frameworks; partnering with security/compliance teams to ensure controls are designed/implemented/maintained.
• Extensive hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code/automation workflows particularly Terraform for secure/scalable/repeatable deployments.
• Practical experience using HashiCorp products such as Vault,Terraform Consul Boundary Nomad Packer Waypoint particularly in enterprise/self-managed environments.