Finite State partners with product security teams, the guardians of our connected world, to create transparency for their connected devices and supply chains. Our platform handles connected devices and embedded systems across all industries, including those found in enterprises, healthcare, utilities, connected vehicles, manufacturing facilities, critical infrastructure, and government entities.
We are a fast-growing series-B company with a fully distributed workforce. Led by a team of seasoned experts, we are a mission-driven team passionate about arming our customers with the actionable insights, critical vulnerability data, and remediation guidance necessary to mitigate product risk and protect the connected attack surface. We are committed to a remote first culture.
Location: US and Canada
About Us
Finite State is securing the connected world by protecting the software supply chains that power our critical infrastructure. Our platform helps security and development teams identify, prioritize, and remediate risk in embedded and enterprise software at scale.
We operate in a deeply technical, rapidly evolving space, and we hire people who thrive on solving complex problems with curiosity, pragmatism, and impact.
The Role
We’re looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager who thrives at the intersection of technical depth, people leadership, and product execution. You’ll lead a distributed team of engineers building core infrastructure and customer-facing features for our software supply chain security platform.
This isn’t a pure people management role—we expect you to stay close to the code, architecture, and delivery. You’ll guide engineers through ambiguity, scale systems, and foster a culture of autonomy, ownership, and growth.
What You’ll Do
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team (5–8 engineers), driving execution and technical excellence
- Own delivery of complex features and systems across the stack—back end, infrastructure, and security
- Drive architecture decisions and technical direction in collaboration with Staff+ engineers and Product
- Champion reliability, scalability, and performance across our platform and tooling
- Partner with cross-functional leaders in Product, Security, and Design to build secure, user-centric solutions
- Help engineers navigate trade-offs between speed and safety in a regulated, security-conscious environment
- Contribute to hands-on design reviews, technical spikes, and occasional code contributions
- Foster a team culture grounded in psychological safety, continuous learning, and engineering rigor
You’re a Great Fit If You
- Have 5+ years of engineering experience with at least 2+ years managing developers in high-trust teams
- Bring technical depth in modern back-end technologies (e.g., Python, Go, Java, TypeScript) and infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Docker, K8s, CI/CD)
- Have worked in cloud-native or security-sensitive environments, ideally in enterprise, SaaS, or developer tooling
- Know how to balance shipping fast with building resilient systems
- Are deeply familiar with software quality practices, including automated testing and observability
- Can speak both the language of engineers and of business outcomes
- Thrive in distributed teams and have excellent async communication habits
- Have experience leading teams that use or build with AI/ML, LLMs, or developer AI tooling (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.)—a strong plus
Why Finite State?
- Mission-driven team protecting the software that runs the physical world
- Remote-first, async-friendly culture built for deep work and autonomy
- Technically rigorous environment with engineers you’ll learn from
- Collaborative team that ships impactful, secure, production-ready code
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits for you and your family
Our Stack
We work primarily in Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform. Experience with these is a bonus—but not required.
How We Hire
We believe hiring is a two-way door. Our process includes technical discussions, real-world problem solving, and space for you to ask the hard questions. No gotchas. No leetcode. Just thoughtful, relevant conversations.
Built on two decades of cybersecurity experience, our team of experts understands the hidden risks in today’s enterprise networks, where IoT vulnerabilities are quickly becoming the entry point of choice for cyber attacks.
We have a sense of duty to protect the critical infrastructure we rely on including medical devices, power grids and telecommunication networks. We were founded in 2017 in Columbus, Ohio.
Finite State has a transparent, collaborative and supportive culture - we are looking for people who have a growth mindset, are curious and innovative, and drive results. Our team is smart, but humble, hard working with lots of fun sprinkled in. Above all, our team is driven by our noble mission and we hold ourselves accountable to delivering to our customers every single day.
The Finite State platform brings visibility and control to the supply chains that create connected devices and embedded systems—all in a simple to use platform and at the scale manufacturers need to keep device production on time and on budget. After unpacking and analyzing every file, configuration, and setting in a firmware build, the platform generates a complete bill of materials for software components, identifies known and 0-day vulnerabilities, shows a contextual risk score, and provides actionable insights that product teams can use to secure their software
We are proud to be an Equal Employer Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Finite State is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
