Manager, Engineering

About the role

ABOUT THE COMPANY

America is under sustained cyber attack. Our adversaries infiltrate our networks, steal our IP, and degrade the digital infrastructure that modern life runs on. They’ve learned—correctly—that those attacks rarely produce consequences.

Twenty was founded to change that, by making our adversaries think twice before they attack us. Our vision is American and allied primacy in cyberspace—a future where they cannot contest us, deterrence is assured, and the free world remains secure.

Founded in 2024, Twenty Technologies (www.twenty.io http://www.twenty.io) industrializes offensive cyber operations for the U.S. and its allies. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Twenty has raised $168M from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Caffeinated Capital, Friends & Family Capital, Point72 Ventures, General Catalyst, and In-Q-Tel.

Mission | On Site | Full Time | U.S. Citizenship Required / No Active Clearance Required

ROLE SUMMARY

You will lead the Data Marketplace Team—the engineering group building the signal engine that aligns cyber capability supply with operational demand. Your team will turn target intelligence from an upstream target-intelligence system and operational performance data from an operational performance and feedback system into gap analysis, high-confidence vendor demand signals, automated capability matching, and decision metrics for government buyers.

This is a data-intensive, marketplace-oriented role with meaningful customer, vendor, privacy, and security considerations. Much of what your team builds connects internal operational systems with buyer- and vendor-facing workflows, making your work a critical dependency across the product ecosystem. You'll own the technical roadmap and partner closely with a Product Manager who owns the product roadmap. Day to day, you'll lead a growing team of engineers across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure—setting direction, running projects, resolving technical dependencies, and shipping a trustworthy marketplace.

This is a player-coach role. Your primary function is management and delivery, with occasional hands-on technical contributions when they accelerate the team.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Lead and develop a cross-disciplinary team of engineers spanning frontend, backend, and infrastructure.

- Own the technical roadmap; partner with the Product Manager on the product roadmap.

- Run projects and workstreams end-to-end—setting timelines, resolving blockers, and keeping the team moving.

- Guide architecture and technical decisions across the platform stack to keep systems coherent, secure, and scalable.

- Establish and enforce engineering quality standards: design reviews, testing discipline, documentation, and security practices.

- Define and maintain the interfaces and shared capabilities that feature teams consume.

- Hire, onboard, and develop engineers; give direct feedback, build growth plans, and cultivate technical leadership within the team.