Senior Manager Software Engineering

Job description

Company Description

When you join Turnitin, you’ll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 21,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Feedback Studio, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate.

Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.

Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.

Turnitin, LLC is an equal opportunity employer- vets/disabled.

Job Description

This Senior Manager of Software Engineering will lead engineering efforts for a core product within the product portfolio, playing a pivotal role in maintaining and evolving a mature, security-critical desktop used by institutions globally. This is a senior technical leadership role requiring expertise in security, reverse engineering, desktop software development, and engineering team management.

This position will drive security enhancements, security awareness, product stability, and long-term architectural planning.  Strong technical acumen and leadership skills will be required to ensure reliability, compliance, and scalability. The role also supports broader company OKRs, including security and resilience across the ExamSoft portfolio.

What You’ll be Doing:

• Lead and Empower Security-Focused Engineering Teams. Oversee and mentor a high-performing engineering team responsible for delivering a secure, resilient assessment platform. Drive technical execution with a strong focus on security, privacy, and compliance. Cultivate a culture of proactive risk management, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Embed Security into Engineering Practices. Champion secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) principles from design through deployment. Ensure security is integrated into CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and architecture. Advocate for threat modeling, static and dynamic code analysis, and secure-by-design architecture reviews.
• Drive Advanced Security Testing. Lead efforts in white-box, black-box, and grey-box testing, ensuring thorough coverage of the platform’s attack surface. Oversee initiatives in reverse engineering of software components to identify potential vulnerabilities or security gaps, and guide the remediation process.
• Guide Security-Critical Desktop and Web Development. Bring technical expertise in secure desktop application development (e.g., C++) and cloud-based backend systems (e.g., AWS). Ensure that the exam delivery platform maintains integrity under adversarial conditions, including offline scenarios and tamper attempts.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally to Mitigate Risk. Partner with Product, Security, QA, and Compliance teams to identify risks early, prioritize security-related initiatives, and align with institutional, regulatory, and industry standards. Translate technical findings into actionable business decisions for leadership and stakeholders.
• Establish and Maintain Secure Architecture. Own the evolution of the system architecture with a strong emphasis on scalability, performance, and resilience against tampering and cheating. Continuously assess architectural decisions through the lens of risk reduction and secure isolation of sensitive workflows.
• Build Security Talent and Capabilities. Hire and develop engineers with a strong security mindset. Mentor the team in areas such as secure coding practices, exploit prevention, and adversarial thinking. Encourage upskilling through security certifications, training, and internal knowledge sharing.

Personal Attributes:

• Experience managing remote stakeholders and working with US based peers
• Strong Project Management and planning skills
• Strong Engineering skills (not required to be hands-on, but ability to perform System Design Reviews if needed)
• Proactivity and curiosity
• Get things done attitude
• Experience in similar roles in a high-tech environment
• Fluency in an English

Qualifications

Top skills required for this position:

1. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
2. 10+ years of progressive engineering experience, including 5+ years of engineering leadership in a product-driven organization along with an emphasis on security.
3. Proven success in leading engineering efforts for desktop applications (e.g., C++).
4. Background in obfuscation and relevant tools to build secure software applications
5. Deep understanding of security best practices in software development, including secure coding, vulnerability mitigation, and compliance standards.
6. Demonstrated ability to lead teams through product maintenance, optimization, and legacy system modernization.
7. Effective communication and stakeholder management across multiple time zones (U.S. and Europe).
8. Expertise in Agile methodologies and managing cross-functional delivery teams.
9. Track record of mentoring, coaching, and building high-performing engineering organizations.

Tii Elements:

• Goal Setting & Vision Execution
• Coaching & Team Building
• Action & Ownership
• Collaboration & Influencing
• Accountability

Additional Information

The expected annual base salary range for this position is: $143,025/year to $238,375/year. This position is bonus eligible / commission-based.

As a Remote-First company, actual compensation will be provided in writing at the time of offer, if extended, and is determined by work location and a range of other relevant factors, including but not limited to: experience, skills, degrees, licensures, certifications, and other job-related factors. Internal equity, market and organizational factors are also considered.

Total Rewards @ Turnitin

Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. People tend to think about their Total Rewards monetarily — solely as regular pay plus bonus or commission. This is what they earn in exchange for what they do. However, Turnitin delivers more than just these components. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential to positively impact global education, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive and collaborative teammates, the extrinsic rewards at Turnitin include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility and provide a safety net for the challenges that life presents from time to time. Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being.

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric- We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by  putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning- We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity- We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership- We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team- We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
• Global Mindset- We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Global Benefits

• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Education Reimbursement*
• Competitive Paid Time Off
• 4 Self-Care Days per year
• National Holidays*
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time*
• Charitable contribution match*
• Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement*
• Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave*
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution*

\* varies by country

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad.  We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!

Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.