Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Senior Manager, Software Engineering (#120) 

 
At Black Duck Software, we pride ourselves on building products and delivering services that help our customers keep their applications safe and secure. Our people do this so well, we have been named the AppSec leader for seven years in a row by Gartner. 

 We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Development Manager to spearhead the next evolution of our application security platform. Join us and be part of a team that’s pushing the boundaries of technology with agile practices, cloud-native patterns and state-of-the-art engineering methodologies. 

 The ideal candidate is an inspiring engineering leader and technology enthusiast, with a successful track record delivering innovative features, while ensuring existing customers remain productive and happy. 

 
Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead and inspire a team of talented software engineers to develop and maintain a world-class application security platform. 

• Drive the software development lifecycle from ideation to deployment, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery. 

• Champion agile practices to foster a culture of continuous improvement and rapid iteration. 

• Leverage cloud services, our internal shared services and other internal products to create a cohesive, scalable, resilient and secure ecosystem. 

• Leverage the latest AI tools to deliver innovative solutions to our customers and to enhance developer productivity and experience.  

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, operations, service delivery and customer success to deliver exceptional software solutions. 

• Mentor and grow your team, promoting a culture of learning and innovation. 

• Stay ahead of industry trends and technology so we continue to push the boundaries of the Application Security Testing market by delivering the most innovative and reliable services to our customers. 

Key Qualifications: 

• 15+ years of software development experience building enterprise-grade customer facing products 

• Must have 6+ years of people management experience for globally distributed full-stack engineering 

• Experience designing and delivering distributed, highly available, large scale, high performing multi-tenant enterprise SaaS applications 

• Experience with building services using Java, Golang, Python and/or Perl (REST, RDBMS, Messaging, NoSQL, API Gateways, Kubernetes, Cloud native, Event driven) 

• Must have experience of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments 

• Customer-first and results-oriented mindset and the ability to make practical decisions when making engineering choices 

• Excellent communications, and collaboration skills 
• BS/MS in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related discipline. 

Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender preference, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal law. In addition, Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.