What we do:
Halcyon is the industry’s first dedicated, adaptive security platform that combines multiple proprietary advanced prevention engines along with AI models focused specifically on stopping ransomware.
Who we are:
Halcyon was formed in 2021 by a team of cyber industry veterans after battling the scourge of ransomware (and advanced threats) for years at some of the largest global security vendors. Comprised of leaders from Cylance (now Blackberry), Accuvant (now Optiv), Fireye and ISS X-Force (now IBM), Halcyon is focused on building products and solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers.
As a remote-native, completely distributed global team, we recognize great talent can exist anywhere. We invite you to apply to a job you’re interested in and we'll work a plan to meet your needs.
The Role:
Halcyon is seeking a thoughtful, experienced Senior Engineering Manager to join our team and help scale our growing engineering organization. This is a critical role focused on enabling sustainable growth, fostering engineering excellence, and supporting a high-trust, high-autonomy team culture. You'll work closely with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure team health, reliable execution, and a strong sense of purpose and accountability.
We're looking for someone who brings a servant-leadership mindset, a mentoring orientation, and a steady hand during both calm and storm. You will report to the Director of Cloud Engineering and partner closely with peer leaders across Product, Engineering, QA, and Agile.
This role is ideal for someone who is excited to step into a hands-on leadership role where they can stay close to the team, help shape outcomes, and create lasting impact through influence rather than authority.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and support one or more Cloud Engineering teams.
- Foster a culture of psychological safety, autonomy, and accountability.
- Actively mentor engineers and emerging leaders to grow their impact and effectiveness.
- Partner with leaders across the organization to drive infrastructure strategy, CI/CD improvements, observability practices, and operational maturity.
- Collaborate closely with product, QA, and agility partners to align on priorities, delivery, and scope.
- Own operational health of your teams: on-call rotations, velocity tracking, and continuous improvement.
- Step in to unblock teams, remove organizational friction, and help create momentum.
- Maintain deep context on what your team is building and why, offering strategic perspective without micromanaging.
- Occasionally dip into the codebase to review pull requests, understand implementation details, and provide relevant technical feedback.
- Support a strong culture of engineering rigor, ensuring teams build with quality, observability, security, and performance in mind.
- Partner with engineers and technical leads to shape architectural direction and maintain high technical standards.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams, preferably in fast-paced, high-growth SaaS
- Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and DevOps practices, including AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling.
- Track record of creating strong team culture, high trust, and psychological safety.
- Effective coach with experience guiding engineers, peers, and upward into executive leadership.
- Solid understanding of modern software development practices, including infrastructure, observability, and reliability.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, scaling challenges, and cross-functional alignment.
- Excellent communicator who leads with clarity, empathy, and pragmatism.
Bonus Experience:
- Background in security, developer platforms, or data-intensive systems.
- Familiarity with Halcyon's architecture and AWS stack.
- Previous experience with compliance-heavy environments like FedRAMP.
Benefits:
Halcyon offers the following benefits to eligible employees:
- Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
- Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.
- Medical and dependent care FSA options.
- 401k plan with a generous employer contribution.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Parental leave.
- Generous equity offerings.
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice. #LI-NOSCRAPE
The expected base salary range for this position is $190,000- $210,000. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but are not limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offers, and equity awards.
In accordance with applicable state and federal laws, the range provided is Halcyon’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and equity in the Company.
We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.
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What We Do
Halcyon is a cybersecurity company building products that stop ransomware from impacting enterprise customers. Halcyon's core platform offers layered ransomware protection that combines pre-execution detection, behavioral modeling, deception techniques and, if all else fails, resiliency, recovery and isolation of impacted nodes. To learn more and get a demo, contact us today.
