Twenty

Manager, Engineering

New York, NY. Posted 4 days ago

The role

You will lead the Data Marketplace Team to build a signal engine that aligns cyber capability supply with operational demand. You will manage a cross-disciplinary team of engineers and own the technical roadmap.

What you will do

  • Lead and develop a cross-disciplinary team of engineers spanning frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
  • Own the technical roadmap and partner with the Product Manager on the product roadmap.
  • Run projects and workstreams end-to-end.
  • Guide architecture and technical decisions across the platform stack.
  • Establish and enforce engineering quality standards.
  • Define and maintain the interfaces and shared capabilities that feature teams consume.
  • Hire, onboard, and develop engineers.
  • Run structured hiring end-to-end.
  • Collaborate with feature teams and other internal consumers.
  • Coordinate cross-team dependencies and communicate timelines, risks, and tradeoffs.

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • 3–5 years of engineering management experience.
  • Led teams of mixed discipline (frontend, backend, and/or infrastructure engineers).
  • Managed engineers across seniority levels.
  • Strong technical breadth across modern web platforms and backend services.
  • Owned a technical roadmap and made prioritization calls under constraints.
  • Built and maintained platform or shared-service capabilities consumed by other engineering teams, or are eager to grow into this responsibility.
  • Track record of developing ICs through clear expectations, regular feedback, and coaching.
  • Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Nice to have

  • Experience in defense, intelligence, national security, or cybersecurity technology environments.
  • Built marketplace, matching, recommendation, ranking, forecasting, or decision-support systems.
  • Worked with graph databases such as Neo4j or graph-based models.
  • Built data products using event streams, operational telemetry, probabilistic scoring, or machine learning.
  • Designed systems that preserve privacy or operational security through anonymization, aggregation, obfuscation, or fine-grained access controls.
  • Built enterprise features such as multi-tenancy, RBAC, audit logging, KYC, or identity verification.
  • Experience integrating multiple products or data sources where upstream accuracy affects downstream decisions.
  • Background in cyber operations, vulnerability intelligence, exploit development, or capability assessment.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plan options.
  • Life / AD&D, disability coverage options.
  • Paid parental leave: 12 weeks for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing parents, 6 weeks for adoptive, foster, or intended parents through surrogacy.
  • Paid holidays and flexible PTO.
  • 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options.
  • HSA/FSA options.
  • Dependent care FSA.

Before you apply

  • Role is limited to U.S. citizens.
  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

About the company

Founded in 2024, Twenty Technologies industrializes offensive cyber operations for the U.S. and its allies. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Twenty has raised $168M from various investors.

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