[Remote] Development Manager - Configuration Management USA

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Action1 is a cybersecurity company providing an autonomous patch management platform for endpoint vulnerability assessment and remediation. The Development Manager will lead the engineering team responsible for configuration management capabilities, guiding technical delivery, product priorities, reporting services, and the safe application and remediation of endpoint configuration changes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers, providing technical direction, mentoring, and regular feedback
• Own delivery outcomes within the agreed scope, provide practical estimates, and make capacity and priority tradeoffs visible
• Work with Product Management and EVP to define priorities and translate customer needs into executive reporting capabilities
• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of configuration management features, including: Configuration policies, templates, and reusable settings, including CIS Benchmark-based baselines
• Assessment of endpoint configurations against supported baselines and reporting of deviations
• Endpoint targeting, grouping, and policy assignment
• Configuration discovery and comparison with desired state
• Detection and remediation of configuration drift
• Validation, staged rollout, and rollback of configuration changes where supported
• Configuration status reporting, change history, and audit trails
• Guide technical decisions within the assigned domain from solution design through development and production rollout, coordinating cross-cutting architecture and security decisions with their designated owners
• Establish clear definitions for metrics, reporting periods, data freshness, and missing data so customers can interpret results accurately
• Coordinate with Product Value and core engineering teams on source data, reporting content, access controls, and shared infrastructure
• Own automated pipelines for building, testing, validating, and deploying reporting services
• Apply AI technologies where they improve development

Skills

• Experience leading software engineers and owning the delivery and operation of production systems
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to guide architecture and contribute to technical problem-solving
• Excellent knowledge of Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python
• Experience building and operating AWS services in production
• Hands-on experience with endpoint management, configuration automation, or systems that enforce desired state
• Understanding of operating system configuration, policy evaluation, idempotent operations, and safe change execution
• Experience designing systems that handle intermittent connectivity and partial failures
• Strong communication skills and the ability to align engineering work with product priorities
• Professional working proficiency in English for leading an English-speaking team and collaborating across functions
• Experience writing automated tests for configuration changes and remediation workflows
• Proficiency in SQL
• Experience with PowerShell and Windows administration
• Experience with runtime isolation and sandboxing for sensitive execution
• Experience in B2B SaaS, security, compliance, or data governance
• Experience building high-load products with numerous endpoints
• Experience with CIS Benchmarks, configuration baselines, policy versioning, and auditability

Benefits

• Fully remote work, giving you the flexibility you need in the modern world
• A collaborative environment encouraging you to own your domain and implement best practices
• Stable income, benefits, flexible working hours, and opportunities for promotion
• Friendly and professional peers, eager to help and help you grow
• A multitude of interesting challenges and opportunities

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