Engineering Manager - DevOps & Security

About The Role

Magpie Literacy is on a bold mission to eradicate illiteracy, and we’re looking for an Engineering Manager of DevOps & Security to keep our production heartbeat strong and secure. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you’ll own the operational health, security protocols, and compliance programs that safeguard all aspects of our learning experience. You’ll lead a multidisciplinary team and collaborate with our peers in Operations and Compliance, Engineering, and Product, to ensure that we can enable a highly-effective, research-driven literacy experience for our K-8 learners.

📌 Our ideal candidate is based in the US and has experience working in remote-first, distributed teams

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What You’ll Do: 

You’ll own the reliability, security, and scalability of our cloud‑native platform that powers literacy‑advancing products used across school districts in the United States. Working closely with engineering, operations, and compliance leads, you’ll make reliable uptime, enhanced security, and blameless incident response into everyday realities—while growing a high‑performing team of SRE, DevOps, and security engineers who share your passion for continuous improvement and mission‑driven impact.

Enable highly effective operations: Guard availability, performance, and cost‑efficiency across all environments; lead on‑call rotations, incident response, and post‑mortems; own escalation playbooks that resolve customer‑facing issues swiftly and transparently.

Elevate our security posture to enable a best-in-class learning experience:  Oversee identity/RBAC, vulnerability management, privacy and regulatory compliance, and IaC security; conduct risk assessments and code reviews; report security health to executives and Risk Management.

Grow & empower the team:  Recruit, mentor, and coach DevOps, SRE, and Security engineers; cultivate a culture of psychological safety, data‑driven decision‑making, collaborative and iterative improvement, and continuous learning.

Automate and innovate:  Partner with Engineering teams to design reliable, scalable architectures; drive monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and self-service tooling that reduce toil and accelerate delivery.