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!
The base salary range for this position is $96,000 - $144,000 base + benefits. This reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this position. This position may also be eligible for incentive plans and other related benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. These factors and individual capabilities will also determine the individual pay offered.
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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.
Skills Required
- Strong communication skills to convey technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven track record of project leadership: planning, execution, and delivery of complex projects.
- Strong technical background in software engineering with hands-on experience designing and developing backend services at scale within AWS.
- Experience managing teams that operate at scale using on-prem and/or cloud technologies.
- Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams, including recruitment, onboarding, and talent development.
- Experience establishing and enforcing coding standards, best practices, and quality assurance processes.
- Experience managing hybrid cloud environments (advantageous).
Mimecast Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mimecast and has not been reviewed or approved by Mimecast.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as solid and competitive relative to similar companies, with a wide range of role-based salary outcomes. Compensation satisfaction is reinforced by frequent references to pay feeling fair for the work in multiple contexts.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance is repeatedly described as a strong part of the package, often paired with other core benefits. The overall benefits bundle is framed as comprehensive and supportive of employee and family health needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Workplace perks such as flexible hours, hybrid/remote options, free meals, and on-site fitness amenities are consistently presented as meaningful additions to total rewards. These perks appear to materially improve day-to-day employee experience beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Relentless protection. Resilient world. Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector – email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. Learn more about us at www.mimecast.com.
