Engineering Manager, Rapid Response Assignment (UK)

Engineering Manager, Rapid Response Assignment - UK Location: Remote (Cheltenham, UK) Team: Product & Engineering Employment Type: Full-Time About VulnCheck Exploitation prevention is only as strong as the intelligence driving those efforts, and most of the industry is still running on intelligence that lacks exploit context. VulnCheck, The Exploit Intelligence Company, delivers structured exploit intelligence on what is actively weaponized in the wild, purpose-built for the data lakes, ETL pipelines, automation, and AI and LLM workflows your infrastructure already runs on, raising the capability of everything it powers. About the Role We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Rapid Response organization - regionally-based teams in the US, UK, and APAC that keep our customers unblocked around the clock. You’ll manage engineering teams of senior ICs directly, set the technical and operational bar for the group, and make sure work is prioritised correctly across a demanding mix of urgent and long-term needs. This team sits at the intersection of Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales. Your teams handle urgent pre-sales requests, urgent customer issues, and other customer-driven feature requests, alongside the backend maintenance and integration work that keeps the platform stable. You’ll need to be equally comfortable setting engineering standards, coaching engineers, and triaging competing priorities across time zones. This is a 100% remote role, with preference for candidates located in Cheltenham, UK What You’ll Do • Manage and grow engineering teams based in the US, UK, and APAC, providing hands-on people leadership, coaching, and career development • Set priorities across urgent pre-sales requests, urgent customer issues, customer feature requests, and backend maintenance/integration work, balancing reactive and proactive work • Ensure continuous, follow-the-sun coverage for urgent customer and pre-sales needs across time zones • Partner closely with Customer Success and Sales leadership to understand customer and deal-critical needs and translate them into engineering plans • Partner with Product and other Engineering teams to ensure customer-driven work is integrated into the broader platform roadmap • Own the team's engineering quality bar, including code quality, root-cause practices, and long-term fixes over one-off patches • Drive hiring, onboarding, and performance management across all three regional teams • Establish and refine on-call, escalation, and incident response processes for the team • Report on team health, throughput, and customer outcomes to engineering and company leadership • Remove blockers for your teams and stay close enough to the technical work to make credible calls under pressure What You’ll Bring • 5+ years of experience managing software engineers, ideally across distributed or multi-region teams • Experience in cybersecurity, vulnerability management, or threat intelligence • Prior experience as a senior or staff software engineer, with credibility to engage in technical discussions and unblock your team • Experience managing customer-facing, support, sustaining, or reliability engineering teams • Proven ability to prioritize and sequence competing demands—urgent customer issues, pre-sales asks, and longer-term maintenance work • Experience managing teams across multiple time zones and regions, with strong async communication habits • Solid understanding of backend systems, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) • A customer-obsessed mindset and a track record of turning technical challenges into strong customer outcomes • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with customers, Sales, Customer Success, and other Engineering teams • Experience working with data pipelines, ETL systems, or high-volume data processing is a plus Preferred Qualifications • Prior experience managing a customer reliability, sustaining, support, or escalation engineering function • Familiarity with CVE, NVD, KEV, or exploit intelligence datasets • Experience supporting pre-sales or deal-critical technical requests • Background in high-growth or startup environments What We Offer We believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted, and valued. VulnCheck offers benefits designed to meet a wide range of needs and lifestyles, tailored to your country of employment: • Generous, flexible time off • Retirement/pension plan contributions (e.g., 401k with match in the US; local pension schemes elsewhere) • Comprehensive healthcare coverage • Generous paid parental leave • Remote-friendly environment with flexibility • Support for home office costs (phone & internet) • Ongoing professional development, coaching, and learning resources • Opportunities for career advancement within a fast-growing team Specific benefit details vary by country and are confirmed during the offer process. Why Join Us Built on over two decades of cybersecurity experience, our team of experts understands the intricacies of vulnerabilities, their exploitation in the wild, and how to leverage this data to build more effective cybersecurity products that produce better outcomes for organizations. VulnCheck gives organizations a tactical advantage by providing best-in-class exploit & vulnerability intelligence information. We have a sense of duty to protect the critical infrastructure we rely on including medical devices, power grids and telecommunication networks. We were founded in 2021 in Lexington, Massachusetts. VulnCheck has a transparent, collaborative, and supportive culture - we are looking for people who have a growth mindset, are curious and innovative. Our team is smart, but humble, hardworking, and supportive. VulnCheck is proud to be an Equal Employer Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. VulnCheck is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. *Even if your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply—we value potential just as much as a perfect resume.