Manager, Engineering - Platform Team

The role

You will lead the Platform Team, which owns the engineering foundation, enterprise capabilities, and shared UI framework. 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.
• 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.
• 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, or national security technology environments.
• Worked with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j) or graph-based modeling.
• Built or scaled enterprise features: multi-tenancy, RBAC, audit logging, or similar.
• Led teams shipping authentication and authorization infrastructure (AuthN, AuthZ, SSO).
• Experience with secure development practices for government or controlled environments.
• Background in cybersecurity, networking, or data-intensive domains.
• Cyber operations experience

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.
• 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 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.