Manager, Engineering (Secure AI Agents)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Secure AI Agents): Leading the development of a secure platform for managing AI agents' identities, permissions, access control, and execution context with an accent on intelligent, dynamic mechanisms for ephemeral access control and secrets management. Focus on recruiting, onboarding, and mentoring a team of engineers to shape the team’s culture and technical direction.

Location: Bulgaria

Company

hirify.global is the global leader in Identity Security, providing the most comprehensive security offering for any identity across business applications, distributed workforces, hybrid cloud workloads and throughout the DevOps lifecycle.

What you will do

• Lead the end-to-end development of a secure platform for managing AI agents’ identities, permissions, access control, and execution context.
• Recruit, onboard, and mentor a team of engineers, shaping the team’s culture and technical direction.
• Drive the design and implementation of core services, ensuring high performance, security, and maintainability.
• Enforce engineering excellence and best practices, including testing, code reviews, observability, secure coding, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Actively contribute to critical paths in architecture, prototyping, and complex problem-solving.
• Ensure the team’s deliverables meet high standards of performance, resilience, and security in production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams in a product-driven environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on backend or systems development experience, using languages such as Python, Go, Java, or C#.
• Experience in identity, authentication, authorization, or secrets management, and excitement to apply these principles to AI and agent frameworks.
• Comfortable building cloud-native systems and working with modern infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and agile development practices.
• Ability to balance long-term architectural vision with fast-paced execution, especially in early-stage or high-growth environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, where every individual's unique background, perspective, and contribution is celebrated.
• Belief that by embracing diversity, innovation is driven and a stronger, more united team is created.
• Equal opportunities employer.