As an Engineering Manager at PortSwigger, you’re not just here to deliver projects, you unlock the conditions for teams to do their best work. You’ll blend technical credibility with leadership excellence to build high-performing teams. You’ll create the conditions where engineers thrive, where outcomes matter, delivery is both fast and sustainable, and people feel safe to stretch, learn, and grow.
Your role is about setting an exceptional bar while also providing mentoring, feedback, and shared leadership. You’ll shape teams that serve real users, strengthen our mission of enabling the world to secure the web, and help shape a culture where people thrive.

ABOUT YOU

• You balance urgency with care, emphasising sustainable impact on users, business value, and team growth.
• You’ve built systems, not just solved tasks, shaping outcomes that outlast you.
• You bring deep technical credibility and pair it with exceptional leadership ability.
• You can be trusted to make sound decisions, even in ambiguity.
• You work transparently, sharing openly, surfacing risks early, and seeking input when needed.
• You balance short-term execution with long-term team and product health.
• You actively seek feedback, reflect, and adapt.
• You thrive on learning, experimentation, and resilience, avoiding perfectionism while striving for excellence.
• You demonstrate a hands-on approach to AI and automation, actively experimenting with and embedding these technologies to accelerate outcomes and improve how your team works. You’re curious about AI’s potential and have a clear vision for how to apply it thoughtfully to solve problems.You demonstrate resilience and adaptability, thriving through change or challenge.
• You’re motivated by coaching and enabling autonomy.
• You mentor engineers, fostering clarity and psychological safety.
• You model humility, empathy, and candour, strengthening collaboration across

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead by example, balancing technical credibility with people leadership.
• Drive solution discovery with Product and UX, ensuring we solve the right problems.
• Champion customer centricity, grounding decisions in real user needs and feedback.
• Monitor solution success, ensuring delivery leads to adoption, impact, and measurable value.
• Create and nurture high-performing teams that deliver impactful outcomes.
• Approach AI with curiosity, experimenting where it accelerates outcomes, and embedding it thoughtfully into how your team works.
• Provide mentoring, feedback, and structured opportunities for engineers to develop skills and take on more responsibility.
• Make strong decisions under uncertainty while surfacing risks early and seeking input when needed.
• Shape a culture of autonomy, curiosity, and collaboration across engineering, product, and beyond.

PURPOSE AND CULTURE

At PortSwigger, high performance comes hand in hand with high support. We expect exceptional outcomes, but we invest just as much in helping you reach that bar. You’ll join a community that values curiosity, radical candour, and genuine care. You’ll have the freedom to experiment, the trust to take ownership, and the support of an organisation that has your back. https://portswigger.net/careers/culture/life-as-a-swigger