Development Manager - Configuration Management

About the role

Action1, an autonomous patch management platform used by many Fortune 500 companies, is looking for a Development Manager to lead the engineering team behind its endpoint configuration management capabilities. You will combine engineering leadership with hands-on technical expertise to help customers define desired configurations, apply changes safely and keep settings consistent across their environments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers, giving technical direction, mentoring and regular feedback.
• Own delivery outcomes within the agreed scope, give practical estimates and make capacity and priority trade-offs visible.
• Work with Product Management and EVP to define priorities and turn customer needs into executive reporting capabilities.
• Oversee the design, development and maintenance of configuration policies, templates, reusable settings (including CIS Benchmark-based baselines), baseline assessments, endpoint targeting, configuration discovery, drift detection and remediation, staged rollouts and audit trails.
• Guide technical decisions from solution design through production rollout, coordinating architecture and security decisions with their owners.
• Define metrics, reporting periods and data freshness so customers can interpret results, and coordinate with Product Value and core engineering teams on data, reporting content, access controls and shared infrastructure.
• Own automated pipelines for building, testing, validating and deploying reporting services, and apply AI technologies where they improve development.

Required profile

• Experience leading software engineers and owning delivery and operation of production systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to guide architecture and solve technical problems.
• Hands-on experience with endpoint management, configuration automation or systems that enforce a desired state.
• Understanding of OS configuration, policy evaluation, idempotent operations and safe change execution.
• Experience designing systems that handle intermittent connectivity and partial failures.
• Professional English proficiency for leading an English-speaking team.

Required skills

• Excellent knowledge of Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript and Python.
• Experience building and operating AWS services in production.
• Nice to have: automated testing, SQL, PowerShell and Windows administration, runtime isolation and sandboxing, B2B SaaS/security/compliance/data governance experience, high-load product experience, CIS Benchmarks and policy versioning.

What we offer

• Fully remote work.
• A collaborative environment where you own your domain and follow best practices.
• Stable income, benefits, flexible working hours and promotion opportunities.