Manager, Software Engineering

Req ID: 26-449

Come Join Our Passionate Team! At Barracuda, we make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.

We know a diverse workforce adds to our collective value and strength as an organization. Barracuda Networks is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to equal employment opportunity and equitable compensation regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.

Envision yourself at Barracuda We are seeking a passionate, experienced Software Engineering Manager to join our Email Protection organization. We hire strong, collaborative leaders to inspire and enable teams to be successful delivering quality software.

The right candidate will have significant experience mentoring and coaching agile development teams. You’ll be managing the day-to-day operations of a software team responsible for architecting, developing, testing, deploying, and scaling email security products in the cybersecurity space.

Our products are generally built using modern technologies and languages and deploy to AWS or Azure via a mature CI/CD pipeline. Performance, monitoring and observability are first class citizens in our ecosystem. Some products are on their journey ‘to the public cloud’ and successful management of a product roadmap, and an architectural roadmap that includes addressing technical debt, is key.

Tech Stack

• Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Python, PHP, Perl, Kafka, Postgres, Docker, AWS

Note - near term future state is introducing modernization of the stack, including

• Leveraging public cloud – ex. Azure/AWS managed services
• Modernizing the CI/CD pipeline with more automation and leveraging things like Kubernetes
• Unifying the frontend across all Barracuda products to React/Typescript and related frontend technologies towards a more unified customer experience

What You Will Be Working On

• Provide people management for a cross-functional product development team

• Manage HR activities as a direct manager
• Coach and mentor through 1x1s and other professional development means, including leveraging senior team members as technical mentors to grow the skills of more junior developers
• Facilitate career growth opportunities
• Enable a flexible yet productive work environment supporting a distributed workforce

• Partner with product managers to outline roadmaps and communicate updates on progress
• Participate in software architectural discussions, influencing decisions, and collaborating with peers to maintain consistency across the organization
• Work with engineers to implement features, debug issues/escalations, prioritize technical debt
• Ensure delivered solutions adhere to the software architecture strategy coding standards, security guidelines, and established organizational policies and procedures
• Identify and champion process and productivity improvement strategies for the team(s)

What You Bring To The Role

• Demonstrated success in an Agile development environment leveraging modern CI/CD best practices
• Experience with daily operations associated with a SAAS application running in a public cloud requiring 24/7 availability, and operating at a large data scale
• Experience managing an application containing both modern aspects, as well as legacy systems – and the ability to manage an architectural roadmap to modernize and and manage technical debt appropriately
• Experience with Lucene or Elasticsearch a plus
• Exposure to public cloud architectures and deployments, distributed system designs involving data storage, databases, streaming/queueing services, batch processing workflows, observability and monitoring best practices
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Product Managers, Designers, Devops Engineers
• Bachelor’s degree in technology, or equivalent work experience

What You’ll Get From Us A team where you can voice your opinion, make an impact, and where you and your experience are valued. Internal mobility – there are opportunities for cross training and the ability to attain your next career step within Barracuda, in addition to equity, in the form of non-qualifying options.