Senior Software Engineering Manager, ISPM - India

All roles at Keystone AI are Remote unless otherwise specified in the Job Description. About Keystone AI Keystone AI ® delivers a unified open directory platform that makes it easy to securely manage identities, devices, and access across your organization. With Keystone AI , IT teams and MSPs enable users to work securely from anywhere and manage their Windows, Apple, Linux, and Android devices from a single platform. Keystone AI is IT Simplified. About the Role: As we grow the Keystone AI Engineering team, we are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) development team in India. You will be responsible to build out features, help drive architecture, define best practices and enable product quality. You are required to guide the engineering teams reporting to you to make things happen and excel. In this process, you will have influence over engineering practices in addition to product strategy and execution. You will be using AI tools to maximise the potential of the team as well as yourself. You will have the opportunity to play a key role in the success and development of our engineering teams in addition to growing your own career. We are seeking a technically enabled leader who is passionate about building great products and high performing teams. The Problem Statement: The Invisible Identity Perimeter Modern enterprises no longer have a physical perimeter; identity is the new boundary. However, this boundary is currently fragmented, opaque, and highly volatile. IT Admins today are drowning in "Identity Debt"—stale accounts, over-privileged permissions, and hidden misconfigurations that remain invisible until they are exploited. The industry is reactive. At Keystone AI , we believe security should be proactive. The challenge is to build a platform that doesn't just manage identities but actively audits, predicts, and remediates risks across millions of objects in real-time. We need to turn "Trust Nothing, Verify Everything" from a slogan into a high-scale, event-driven reality What you’ll be doing: As part of the ISPM team, and as part of the engineering team as a whole here at Keystone AI , you will be responsible for managing and guiding the engineering teams reporting to you. You will interact effectively with the Staff and Principal engineers to build out features, help drive architecture, define best practices and enable product quality. You will have influence over our engineering practices in addition to product strategy and execution. As an active member of the engineering leadership team, you will partner with your peers and other teams to build, lead, and inspire a world class engineering organization. You will provide technical leadership and oversight of team activities in your areas of expertise. You will be responsible for hiring, on-boarding and mentoring a growing and diverse team of high potential team members. We’re looking for: 5+ years of experience leading and building software engineering teams developing on top of public clouds, like AWS, GCP, or Azure and over all 12+ years of industry experience Experience managing a team of 8 or more members, performance management and building a successful team. Track record of leading and driving team and/or organizational projects/initiatives to successful, on-time completion and/or delivery Strong understanding of software engineering principles and techniques Track record of Software-as-a-Service Ownership, and strong proponent of Reliability Principles Hands-on experience working with agile teams Ability to work and communicate effectively with other engineering managers, and both technical and non-technical business stakeholders Ability to quickly integrate new technologies and industry best practices into your skill sets Experience managing cross-functional teams including Software and Quality Engineers Strong track record in finding, hiring, growing, and retaining High Performing Engineers Proven ability to thrive in a fast-moving, team-oriented, collaborative environment Track record of continuous improvement through innovation, delivery, process development, quality, etc. Experience leading geographically diverse engineering teams in today’s remote first work environment Exposure to AI Coding agents like Cursor, Claude or Copilot and AI tools like Gemini, Notebook LLM and effective usage of these for day to day work optimization. Exposure to cyber security concepts and developing such solutions. Where you’ll be working/Location: Keystone AI is committed to being Remote First, meaning that you are able to work remotely within the country noted in the Job Description. You must be located in and authorized to work in the country noted in the job description to be considered for this role. Please note: There is an expectation that our engineers participate in on-call shifts. You will be expected commit to being ready and able to respond during your assigned shift, so that alerts don't go unaddressed. La