Engineering Lead II at Flashpoint

Flashpoint is the pioneering leader in threat data and intelligence, empowering commercial enterprises and government agencies to confront complex security challenges, reduce risk, and improve operational resilience. Through the Flashpoint Ignite platform, they deliver unparalleled depth, breadth, and speed of data from highly relevant sources, enriched by human insights.

About the Role:

Are you an engineering leader who never stopped being an engineer? Flashpoint is looking for an Engineering Lead II to take technical ownership of Echosec, Strategic Entity Data, and Identify. This team is small, senior, and productive, shipping fast across a Laravel platform, a Python AI service, and a data pipeline handling sensitive breach and leak data.

You will be the engineering half of a partnership with a Product Manager who knows the domain cold, and you will be accountable for the technical direction that partnership depends on. Flashpoint customers use these products to find threats before they reach them.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the technical direction of three product surfaces: Echosec, Strategic Entity Data (SED), and Identify, and the architecture connecting them.
• Lead the Echosec platform, a mature Laravel application running on Kubernetes.
• Take the AI layer further, enhancing natural-language search, summarization, and agentic reporting over threat data using a Python service.
• Own the Strategic Entity Data API and ingestion pipeline, including architectural decisions on cost, scale, and data quality.
• Partner directly with the Product Manager and other engineering teams across Flashpoint.
• Grow a team of senior engineers and own their career paths, promotions, and performance.
• Represent the team in KPI reviews, commitment reviews, and cross-team architecture forums.

What You Will Achieve:

Within 30 days:

• Know the team members, their aspirations, and your partners across Product, SRE, Platform, Data, and Intel.
• Understand how a customer request moves through the product planning process.
• Share your first honest assessment of what's working and what isn't.

Within 60 days:

• The team's operating rhythm will be established.
• You and your Product Manager will have a clear split of decisions and next quarter’s roadmap.

By 90 days:

• The team will have a technical direction for Echosec, SED, and Identify shaped by you.
• Run the quarterly commitment cycle with your Product Management partner.
• Be the first call for anything technical in this area.

Requirements:

• Experience managing engineers, including performance conversations, career development, promotion advocacy, and hiring.
• Production experience with a mature server-side web application at scale, specifically PHP and Laravel, or comparable depth in another framework.
• Hands-on experience running services on Kubernetes with managed Postgres and Redis in a public cloud.
• Experience owning production reliability, including on-call rotations, incident command, post-incident reviews, and closing action items.