Senior Manager, Cloud Platform and Security

📋 Job Overview

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About the Company
America is under sustained cyber attack. Our adversaries infiltrate our networks, steal our IP, and degrade the digital infrastructure that modern life runs on. They’ve learned—correctly—that those attacks rarely produce consequences.

Twenty was founded to change that, by making our adversaries think twice before they attack us. Our vision is American and allied primacy in cyberspace—a future where they cannot contest us, deterrence is assured, and the free world remains secure.

Founded in 2024, Twenty Technologies (www.twenty.io) industrializes offensive cyber operations for the U.S. and its allies. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Twenty has raised $168M from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Caffeinated Capital, Friends & Family Capital, Point72 Ventures, General Catalyst, and In-Q-Tel.

🏢 About Twenty

Mission | On Site | Full Time | U.S. Citizenship Required / No Active Clearance Required

🎯 The Role

You will build and lead the engineering organization that gets Twenty's software into the environments where our customers use it, keeps it secure and running there, and keeps it accredited. That covers infrastructure and the delivery path into customer environments, security engineering for our products, site reliability engineering at headquarters and at customer sites, and a new accreditation program for our products on government networks.

You will decide what gets built first, hire the people who build it, and lead them directly while the organization grows, often in disciplines where they know more than you do. You'll need enough technical depth to lead those specialists credibly, the judgment to make sound decisions in areas you haven't worked in yourself, and the organizational instincts to grow a new function.

Our product engineering teams are your peers and your main customers. You succeed by giving them tools, defaults, and a delivery path they want to use, not by doing their work for them. You'll partner closely with the VP of Engineering on org strategy and hiring, and with the product engineering leaders on what this organization provides them.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build the organization: decide what to stand up first, how the work is divided into teams, and when to add management capacity, in partnership with the VP of Engineering.
• Hire across infrastructure, security, reliability, and accreditation: set the bar for each discipline, run a structured process, and close strong candidates in a cleared hiring market.
• Lead and develop senior engineers directly, as well as the managers you add as the organization grows.
• Own the delivery path from a developer's laptop to a running instance, including instances we can't reach interactively: build, signing, packaging, install, upgrade, and rollback in customer environments.
• Take over infrastructure work that product teams are doing today, and build a team resilient enough to keep owning it.
• Own the operation of our products in our cloud and at customer sites, including incident response across the boundary between them.
• Lead security engineering for our products: design review, secure defaults, vulnerability management, and detection, working with our managed detection and response provider.
• Stand up and own an accreditation program for our products, through a dedicated lead who reports to you.
• Communicate clearly to senior leadership on progress, risks, and the tradeoffs you're making.

📌 Required Qualifications

• You have 8+ years of professional experience across software, infrastructure, site reliability, or security engineering.
• You have 5+ years of engineering management experience, including leading multiple teams or a team spanning more than one discipline.
• You've built or substantially rebuilt an engineering function: set its scope, hired its people, and grown it into a team others rely on.
• You've led senior engineers in disciplines outside your own background, and can describe how you judged their work.
• Your organization has owned production systems in operation, including on-call, incident response, and the postmortem and root cause analysis (RCA) process.
• You've led teams supporting software deployed outside a standard cloud environment: on-premises, private cloud, restricted, or customer-controlled infrastructure.
• You've run hiring across multiple roles: setting the bar, running a structured process, and closing strong candidates.
• You must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• You've managed engineering managers.
• You have experience in defense, intelligence, or national security.

🎁 Benefits

Base Salary Range $197K – $236K
Estimated Total Compensation Range $289K – $354K
Estimated total compensation includes base salary, target bonus, and the estimated value of equity at grant. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, skills, location, role scope, and company needs. We calibrate role scope through the interview process and benchmark offers against competitive market data.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

U.S. Citizenship Required / No Active Clearance Required