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Bitwarden is a trusted identity security leader serving millions of users worldwide. The company provides password management, secrets management, and passwordless/passkey innovations across browser, desktop, and mobile platforms.
You will lead and grow the Passkeys team as part of Bitwarden's India Engineering Center of Excellence. The Passkeys team owns the implementation of WebAuthn and FIDO2 standards, including credential creation and assertion, integration with platform credential provider APIs, and emerging standards for credential portability to prevent user lock-in.
Key responsibilities include:
- Hiring, developing, and retaining a strong engineering team
- Setting and reporting on measurable goals and objectives
- Facilitating team ceremonies (weekly syncs, backlog refinement, retrospectives, sprint planning)
- Monitoring in-flight work, identifying blockers, and driving resolution
- Owning escalation and triage for production issues, community-reported bugs, and enterprise customer escalations
- Maintaining a healthy, sprint-ready backlog with prioritized bugs, tech debt, and features
- Serving as primary liaison between engineering, Design, Product, Architecture, and other teams
- Collaborating with stakeholders to synthesize requests into actionable work
- Identifying friction points in team processes and developing solutions
- Creating an inclusive, collaborative team environment
- Conducting regular 1:1s, developing performance goals and growth plans
- Performing performance reviews as required
You will thrive by leading through influence and collaboration, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution, creating clarity across complex initiatives, and enabling engineering excellence.
Requirements:
- 10-12 years of demonstrated experience leading engineering teams or complex cross-functional product engineering initiatives
- Experience in globally distributed Product Engineering, GCC, or Center of Excellence environments with distributed or cross-regional team management across time zones
- Proven ability to lead delivery across engineering organizations and influence multiple stakeholders
- Strong understanding of Agile software development, modern engineering practices, and product delivery lifecycles
- Background in Engineering Management, Technical Program Management, Engineering Delivery, Product Operations, or similar leadership roles
- Effective communication with Engineering, Product, Design, and executive stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving, prioritization, and decision-making skills with continuous improvement mindset
- Coaching-oriented leadership style with demonstrated experience developing high-performing teams
- Strong technical background in CI/CD, automation, and release engineering sufficient to engage credibly in technical discussions and step in hands-on when necessary
- Prior experience managing or working closely with BRE, SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering teams
- Formal management training or certifications preferred
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar project management platforms preferred; familiarity with AI tooling for development (Claude Code or similar) preferred
