Engineering Manager
Hands-on engineering manager at OPSWAT's Veszprém office leading the team behind MetaDefender Email Gateway Security, an on-premises email security product for critical infrastructure. The role mixes writing and reviewing code with running an AI-agent-powered SDLC, owning roadmap delivery, and building the Hungarian team.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Veszprém, Veszprém, Hungary
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Has personally worked in a team running a full agentic, AI-powered SDLC end to end, in B2B/enterprise environments with compliance and data-sensitivity requirements, with real work (PRs, commits, ship
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years leading engineering teams as a team lead or similar through complex product delivery at scale
- Strong, current software engineering fundamentals: design patterns, SOLID principles, modern architecture; can evaluate AI-assisted code with the same rigor as human-authored code
- Experience building on-premises deployed products and comfort with the requirements this brings
- High bar for quality and test discipline — tested, maintainable code, using AI
- Drives technical ownership: mentors the team toward independent technical decisions, delivery velocity, and proactive problem-solving
Nice to have
- Domain familiarity: understanding of email as a communication channel, its underlying technology and protocols, and email security deployment methods
- Cloud services familiarity: experience integrating products with M365 and/or Google Workspace and their API ecosystems
- .NET / C# ecosystem: hands-on or managerial experience with .NET Core / C#
- Experience writing AI context files (e.g., CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules) encoding architecture decisions and forbidden patterns
- Familiarity running AI agents inside CI/CD pipelines (auto-fixing lint, generating tests, safe migrations) as a normal way of working
Full description
OPSWAT, a global leader in IT, OT, and ICS critical infrastructure cybersecurity, delivers an end-to-end platform that gives public and private sector organizations and enterprises the critical advantage needed to protect their complex networks, secure their devices, and ensure compliance. Over the last 20 years our commitment to innovative technology has earned the trust of more than 1,700 organizations, governments, and institutions globally, solidifying our role in protecting the world’s critical infrastructure and securing our way of life.
The Position
We are looking for an Engineering Manager with the experience to lead a team through a phase of rapid change. This is a hands-on, technically-centric leadership role — not a pure people-management position — with full accountability for the engineering of the MetaDefender Email Gateway Security: architecture, delivery, quality, and the team that builds it.
You will have extensive experience of working within and defining an AI-Powered Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Product Management defines what to ship; you define how to build it. You own the end-to-end delivery of the roadmap Product Management sets, hold the delivery bar, and with the support of the Director of Engineering build a high-performance culture the rest of OPSWAT’s engineering portfolio will look to as a model for AI-native development. You report to the Director of Engineering and lead a team in Hungary. This is a majority office-based role, located at our Veszprém office.
The Product: MetaDefender Email Gateway Security
MetaDefender Email Gateway Security is OPSWAT’s on-premises email security solution, trusted by governments and critical infrastructure operators to stop file-borne and email-borne threats before they reach the inbox. It is deployed worldwide to protect critical infrastructure from email borne threats before they reach end-users’ inboxes. Using the full suite of OPSWAT technologies, Email Gateway Security embodies our promise to provide consistent protection against file-based threats that a detection first strategy cannot.
This role will manage a team in Hungary responsible for the product and collaborate with teams developing other email security products at our Romanian office and worldwide.
What You Will be Doing
- Lead as an AI-first effort: make AI agents a first-class part of how the team works — orchestrating agents to create specs, generate code and tests, verify results, and run reviews — while ensuring humans own and validate every line that ships. Treat automation and intelligence as the default, not the exception.
- Be hands-on: remain directly in the codebase — writing and reviewing critical code, prototyping, and helping the team unblock hard technical problems. You lead not just by delegating but also by doing.