Hybrid Manager, Engineering – Exposure Management

at Arctic Wolf

• Job title: Manager, Engineering – Exposure Management
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $118,700 - $280,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform, Python, Rust, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Eden Prairie, United States

About the role

• Engineering Manager leading exposure management teams at Arctic Wolf. Focusing on team growth, delivery, and alignment with the business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow one or more engineering teams — owning career development, performance, and team health
• Own end-to-end delivery for your team’s commitments, ensuring quality, timelines, and alignment with product goals
• Partner closely with Product Management and Design to shape solutions that balance value, usability, and feasibility
• Engage technically at a Staff/Senior Staff level as needed – informing architecture and design decisions, reviewing HLDs, and unblocking complex or high-risk work – while keeping your primary focus on team leadership and delivery.
• Champion engineering principles — clean design, domain-driven design, separation of concerns, KISS — and hold your team accountable to quality standards
• Ensure the team follows agreed-upon development processes including Definition of Done, test automation, and CI/CD practices
• Foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement — facilitate sprint planning, retros, and demos
• Recruit, interview, and hire engineers to grow the team
• Communicate status, risks, and needs to stakeholders and leadership in a timely manner
• Participate in the on-call rotation and serve as an escalation point during incidents – ensuring your team has the support they need to respond effectively

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience developing and operating SaaS platforms
• 3+ years of engineering management experience, leading and growing development teams
• Have designed and operated multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS platforms at scale
• Strong technical depth at the Staff/Senior Staff level — able to contribute to architecture, review designs, and jump into code when needed
• Experience with two or more of: Rust, Go, Python
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and multi-cloud environments (AWS and GCP)
• Grounded in engineering principles — clean design, domain-driven design, separation of concerns, KISS, YAGNI — and can coach teams to apply them pragmatically
• Demonstrated ability to grow engineers — through career coaching, mentoring, and creating an environment where people do their best work
• Experience partnering with product management in an empowered team model

Benefits

• Equity for all employees
• Flexible time off and paid volunteer days
• RRSP and 401k match
• Training and career development programs
• Comprehensive private benefits plan including medical, mental health, dental, disability, life and AD&D, and value-added services
• Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with mental health services
• Fertility support and paid parental leave