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KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15 years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense. Remote positions open to the US only.
ROLE SUMMARY
KnowBe4's Platform Services group builds the infrastructure that every product team depends on. As a Software Engineering Manager, you own the team that shapes that foundation. You'll lead at the intersection of identity, platform reliability, and building and growing the engineers who solve problems with direct impact on every engineer and every customer at KnowBe4. The messaging and events platform your team owns underpins bespoke email delivery, event publish and subscribe (pub/sub, the pattern where services broadcast events and other services subscribe to the ones they care about), and outbound notification delivery across Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, and other channels for the entire KnowBe4 product suite. Decisions made here ripple across every engineering team at KnowBe4 and the inboxes and channels of a global customer base. We need a manager who can think at that scale, communicate across organizational boundaries, and stay close enough to the technology to make sound calls without writing every line themselves.
WHAT YOUR TEAM BUILDS
- High-throughput email delivery (legacy & new) services in Golang & Rust deployed as AWS ECS Tasks & Lambda functions: low-latency send pipelines handling batching, deliverability, and bounce processing across multiple AWS regions
- Outbound channel integrations: connectors for Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, and webhook-based delivery, including the rate limiting, retry, and per-channel formatting logic each provider demands
- Event publish and subscribe infrastructure: DFS (Data Foundation Service) subscribers, backed by AWS Eventbridge, and the message routing layer that coordinates state changes across bounded contexts
- Delivery reliability and observability: idempotency, dead-letter queues, retry and backoff strategy, and end-to-end delivery tracking so teams can see whether a message actually landed
- Cross-team messaging SDKs: libraries in Rust, C#, and Python that let other engineering teams emit events and send notifications, where design quality and backward compatibility matter deeply
- IaC at scale: multi-account, multi-region Terraform provisioning and governing the messaging and events layer across development, staging, and production
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
- People leadership experience: you have managed engineers directly, run hiring loops, handled performance conversations, and grown people into larger roles
- Enough backend depth to lead credibly: working fluency in a typed, compiled language (Go, Rust, C#, or equivalent) and the judgment to evaluate designs, not necessarily to be the top coder on the team
- AWS messaging and compute stack: ECS, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, SSM, and IAM at a level where you can reason about the systems your team designs
- Event-driven architecture: pub/sub, fan-out, eventual consistency, idempotency, dead-letter handling, and delivery guarantees (at-least-once versus exactly-once and the tradeoffs between them)
- Messaging and delivery domain literacy: you understand what it takes to actually get a message delivered, whether that is email reputation and bounce handling or the rate limits and retry semantics of a third-party chat API
- Delivery management: roadmap planning, dependency management, and predictable shipping in a discovery-heavy platform context
- Technical communication: design docs, RFCs, and architecture reviews, plus the ability to synthesize complexity into clear proposals for both engineers and executives
- Lead a software team that develops software using the KnowBe4 Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Methodologies
- Recommend solutions to engineering problems
- Provide genuine recommendations as to the hiring, firing, promotion, and discipline of subordinate employees to which the Company gives significant weight
SKILLS REQUIREMENTS
- Prior individual contributor experience in messaging, eventing, or platform engineering before moving into management
- Go production experience: comfort with the concurrency model and the kind of high-throughput service work this team does day to day
- Rust exposure: enough familiarity with the async ecosystem (tokio, axum, reqwest, serde) to follow and guide technical discussion
- Email infrastructure: AWS SES or third-party ESPs (such as SendGrid or Postmark), plus SMTP and the deliverability standards SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
- Third-party messaging integrations: Slack API, Microsoft Graph and Teams, Google Chat API, and webhook delivery patterns
- AWS EventBridge and SNS or SQS at scale: event bus design, schema management, and routing across bounded contexts
- C# and .NET (8+) or Python: both show up in this layer for services and event-processing tooling
- Terraform at scale: multi-account, multi-region IaC and CI deploy patterns
- Observability tooling: structured logging, tracing, and delivery metrics for systems where "did it actually arrive" is the core question
- Experience managing a platform or infrastructure team whose customers are other internal engineering teams
PREFERRED / NICE-TO-HAVE
- Prior individual contributor experience in identity, auth, or platform engineering before moving into management
- Rust exposure: enough familiarity with the async ecosystem to follow and guide technical discussion
- C# and .NET (8+): Lambda AOT compilation, ASP.NET Core, Native AOT targeting linux-arm64
- Auth0 and Keycloak: tenant and realm administration, SAML, OIDC, and OAuth app configuration
- Terraform at scale: multi-account, multi-region IaC and CI deploy patterns
- GitLab CI/CD: pipeline design and multi-environment deployment
- Security engineering concepts: threat modeling, zero-trust principles, secrets management, and credential rotation
- Experience managing a platform or infrastructure team whose customers are other internal engineering teams
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- BS or equivalent plus 3 years technical experience
- MS or equivalent plus 5 years of experience, including team leadership
- Ph.D. or equivalent plus 4 years of experience, including team leadership
The base pay for this position ranges from $150,000 - $174,000, which will vary depending on how well an applicant's skills and experience align with the job description listed above. Application deadline: 9/15/2026. This is our good-faith estimate of the date the application window is anticipated to close. KnowBe4 reviews applications on a rolling basis and reserves the right to close the application window early if a qualified candidate for the position is identified.
OUR FANTASTIC BENEFITS
We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/benefits.
Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.
Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.
No recruitment agencies, please.
INTRODUCTION
KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15 years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense. Remote positions open to the US only.
ROLE SUMMARY
KnowBe4's Platform Services group builds the infrastructure that every product team depends on. As a Software Engineering Manager, you own the team that shapes that foundation. You'll lead at the intersection of identity, platform reliability, and building and growing the engineers who solve problems with direct impact on every engineer and every customer at KnowBe4. The messaging and events platform your team owns underpins bespoke email delivery, event publish and subscribe (pub/sub, the pattern where services broadcast events and other services subscribe to the ones they care about), and outbound notification delivery across Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, and other channels for the entire KnowBe4 product suite. Decisions made here ripple across every engineering team at KnowBe4 and the inboxes and channels of a global customer base. We need a manager who can think at that scale, communicate across organizational boundaries, and stay close enough to the technology to make sound calls without writing every line themselves.
WHAT YOUR TEAM BUILDS
- High-throughput email delivery (legacy & new) services in Golang & Rust deployed as AWS ECS Tasks & Lambda functions: low-latency send pipelines handling batching, deliverability, and bounce processing across multiple AWS regions
- Outbound channel integrations: connectors for Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, and webhook-based delivery, including the rate limiting, retry, and per-channel formatting logic each provider demands
- Event publish and subscribe infrastructure: DFS (Data Foundation Service) subscribers, backed by AWS Eventbridge, and the message routing layer that coordinates state changes across bounded contexts
- Delivery reliability and observability: idempotency, dead-letter queues, retry and backoff strategy, and end-to-end delivery tracking so teams can see whether a message actually landed
- Cross-team messaging SDKs: libraries in Rust, C#, and Python that let other engineering teams emit events and send notifications, where design quality and backward compatibility matter deeply
- IaC at scale: multi-account, multi-region Terraform provisioning and governing the messaging and events layer across development, staging, and production
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
- People leadership experience: you have managed engineers directly, run hiring loops, handled performance conversations, and grown people into larger roles
- Enough backend depth to lead credibly: working fluency in a typed, compiled language (Go, Rust, C#, or equivalent) and the judgment to evaluate designs, not necessarily to be the top coder on the team
- AWS messaging and compute stack: ECS, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, SSM, and IAM at a level where you can reason about the systems your team designs
- Event-driven architecture: pub/sub, fan-out, eventual consistency, idempotency, dead-letter handling, and delivery guarantees (at-least-once versus exactly-once and the tradeoffs between them)
- Messaging and delivery domain literacy: you understand what it takes to actually get a message delivered, whether that is email reputation and bounce handling or the rate limits and retry semantics of a third-party chat API
- Delivery management: roadmap planning, dependency management, and predictable shipping in a discovery-heavy platform context
- Technical communication: design docs, RFCs, and architecture reviews, plus the ability to synthesize complexity into clear proposals for both engineers and executives
- Lead a software team that develops software using the KnowBe4 Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Methodologies
- Recommend solutions to engineering problems
- Provide genuine recommendations as to the hiring, firing, promotion, and discipline of subordinate employees to which the Company gives significant weight
SKILLS REQUIREMENTS
- Prior individual contributor experience in messaging, eventing, or platform engineering before moving into management
- Go production experience: comfort with the concurrency model and the kind of high-throughput service work this team does day to day
- Rust exposure: enough familiarity with the async ecosystem (tokio, axum, reqwest, serde) to follow and guide technical discussion
- Email infrastructure: AWS SES or third-party ESPs (such as SendGrid or Postmark), plus SMTP and the deliverability standards SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
- Third-party messaging integrations: Slack API, Microsoft Graph and Teams, Google Chat API, and webhook delivery patterns
- AWS EventBridge and SNS or SQS at scale: event bus design, schema management, and routing across bounded contexts
- C# and .NET (8+) or Python: both show up in this layer for services and event-processing tooling
- Terraform at scale: multi-account, multi-region IaC and CI deploy patterns
- Observability tooling: structured logging, tracing, and delivery metrics for systems where "did it actually arrive" is the core question
- Experience managing a platform or infrastructure team whose customers are other internal engineering teams
PREFERRED / NICE-TO-HAVE
- Prior individual contributor experience in identity, auth, or platform engineering before moving into management
- Rust exposure: enough familiarity with the async ecosystem to follow and guide technical discussion
- C# and .NET (8+): Lambda AOT compilation, ASP.NET Core, Native AOT targeting linux-arm64
- Auth0 and Keycloak: tenant and realm administration, SAML, OIDC, and OAuth app configuration
- Terraform at scale: multi-account, multi-region IaC and CI deploy patterns
- GitLab CI/CD: pipeline design and multi-environment deployment
- Security engineering concepts: threat modeling, zero-trust principles, secrets management, and credential rotation
- Experience managing a platform or infrastructure team whose customers are other internal engineering teams
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- BS or equivalent plus 3 years technical experience
- MS or equivalent plus 5 years of experience, including team leadership
- Ph.D. or equivalent plus 4 years of experience, including team leadership
The base pay for this position ranges from $150,000 - $174,000, which will vary depending on how well an applicant's skills and experience align with the job description listed above. Application deadline: 9/15/2026. This is our good-faith estimate of the date the application window is anticipated to close. KnowBe4 reviews applications on a rolling basis and reserves the right to close the application window early if a qualified candidate for the position is identified.
OUR FANTASTIC BENEFITS
We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/benefits.
Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.
Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.
No recruitment agencies, please.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Engineering Manager
Document your engineering leadership scope early
PERM job descriptions must match your actual duties precisely. Before applying, catalog the specific engineering disciplines you manage, the size of teams you've led, and any P&L or budget authority. Vague or inflated descriptions can trigger DOL audits.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Companies that have previously sponsored engineering managers through PERM already understand the multi-year timeline and legal costs involved. Search the DOL's OFLC disclosure database to verify that a prospective employer has filed PERM applications for managerial engineering roles, not just individual contributor positions.
Search green card sponsoring jobs on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Engineering Manager roles by employers with verified green card sponsorship history. This cuts out companies that only sponsor H-1B visas and focuses your search on employers already familiar with the PERM-to-I-140 process.
Confirm your degree aligns with EB-2 requirements
EB-2 requires a U.S. master's degree or a foreign equivalent, or a U.S. bachelor's plus five years of progressive post-degree experience. For Engineering Manager roles, a degree in engineering, computer science, or a closely related technical field is typically what USCIS expects the position to require.
Negotiate green card sponsorship into your offer letter
Ask explicitly whether the employer will initiate PERM within the first year of employment and who covers attorney and filing fees. Engineering Manager candidates often have leverage here; getting sponsorship terms in writing before you sign prevents disputes once you're already employed and mid-process.
Understand how your country affects your priority date
EB-3 for Engineering Managers is current for most nationalities, but applicants born in India or China face backlogs that can extend the wait by years. Check the monthly USCIS Visa Bulletin before accepting a role to understand your realistic timeline to lawful permanent residency.
Green Card Engineering Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Engineering Manager role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Engineering Manager positions qualify for EB-3 because they require at least a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field. If the role requires a master's degree or equivalent advanced credentials, your employer can file under EB-2 instead. Some employers file both simultaneously as a precaution, which lets you use whichever category moves faster given your priority date.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for Engineering Managers?
Green card sponsorship through PERM leads to permanent residency, not a temporary status with renewal limits. There's no annual lottery for EB-3, and once your I-140 is approved, the authorization doesn't expire if you change employers under AC21 portability rules after 180 days. The tradeoff is time: PERM labor certification alone takes six months to over a year before USCIS even sees your I-140 petition.
What is the PERM labor certification process for an Engineering Manager position?
PERM requires your employer to conduct a DOL-supervised recruitment campaign proving no qualified U.S. workers are available for the specific Engineering Manager role. That includes job postings, newspaper ads, and internal notices. The employer then submits the application to DOL, which takes roughly six to twelve months to certify. Only after certification can the employer file your I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS.
How can I find Engineering Manager jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search Engineering Manager roles specifically filtered by employers with verified employment-based green card sponsorship history. This is more targeted than a general job search because it surfaces companies that have completed PERM filings for similar roles before, not just those willing to consider sponsorship in theory.
Can I switch employers after my I-140 is approved without losing my green card progress?
Yes, under AC21 portability rules, you can change to a same or similar Engineering Manager role without losing your priority date if your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for at least 180 days. The new role must be in the same occupational classification, which for Engineering Managers is typically assessed using O*NET job zone criteria and SOC codes.