Software Development Manager

Verisign’s Resolution Engineering team is a high performing, Agile team who builds horizontally scalable, high performance, and highly available systems. The successful candidate will support the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software solutions in a collaborative Agile environment. This role provides an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience with modern software engineering practices, including software integration, vulnerability management, automated testing, and CI/CD pipeline development.

The Person:

The ideal candidate will manage a newly formed Resolution Release Team, a combination of the Edge CICD Build and Monthly Product Release teams. This position will focus on existing build, integration, and deployment processes while continually automating them. This person will lead the strategy to migrate common functions currently independently done by product-specific teams (e.g. service and site health checks, regression test development) to a common infrastructure for all products. Lead the release prioritization, planning, coordination, and communication with Resolution Operations Deployment team.

The candidate will participate in daily standup meetings, grooming, and planning sessions. You will take ownership of features from design to delivery. Successful engineering managers will work closely with team members to gain a complete understanding our hardware and software stack to make a positive impact on projects as well as team chemistry.

The Role:

We are looking for a Software Development Manager who isn’t afraid to be hands-on with the technical implementation details. You will lead an established, highly-technical agile development team. A successful candidate will have:

• strong foundation in managing, mentoring and developing a high-performance team
• a track record for managing high quality and impactful delivery
• enjoys breaking down tough problems, as well as working with a team to deliver valuable solutions
• passion for the software development best practices such as automated testing, code reviews, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• a curious mindset, be an agent for change, constantly learning and seeking better outcomes
• skill at interacting and working with people in a proactive manner to mitigate key project technical risks and ensure quality

Development and Test Skills:

• Proven foundation in Computer Science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, operating systems, object-oriented design)
• Experience in behavior-driven testing frameworks such as Python Behave or Cucumber
• Experience data analysis using monitoring and analytical tools (Hydra, Splunk, Snowflake)

Build, Integration and Deployment Skills:

• Experience with or a strong willingness to learn infrastructure automation and platform engineering technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and OpenStack
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Groovy, GitHub)
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes
• Awareness of and responsibility for how large-scale distributed systems are deployed and operated

Developer Traits:

• Excellent team player who enjoys a collaborative, Agile-based team environment
• Independent problem solving and trouble-shooting skills aimed at healthy environments and quality code
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to clearly present ideas and solutions ensuring shared understanding among the team
• A willingness to learn and a curious mindset about the products you are supporting

Relevant Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of relevant experience in software development
• 2+ years team management experience

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

The pay range is $149,300 - $201,900.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.