WE ARE HIRING | ENGINEERING MANAGER – SOCIAL, CTI & CYBER INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM Company: Pinaca Technologies Private Limited Product: Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform

Location:
Hybrid

Experience:
10–15 Years Team Size: 10–20 Engineers Employment Type: Full time Joining: Immediate joiners preferred

About the Role
Pinaca Technologies is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Data Acquisition and Platform Engineering teams for Pinaca, a social media, cyber threat intelligence, and cyber intelligence platform. The role involves driving engineering strategy, building high-performing teams, modernizing existing systems, and delivering scalable, secure, and reliable solutions across cloud and on-premises environments, including air-gapped deployments.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead and develop the Data Acquisition and Platform Engineering teams, including mentoring technical leads.
• Define engineering strategy, technical roadmaps, delivery priorities, and engineering standards.
• Oversee large-scale data collection pipelines, backend microservices, APIs, AI/ML enrichment, and intelligence search systems.
• Drive the consolidation of existing systems into a scalable, maintainable architecture.
• Establish secure and repeatable release processes for cloud and air-gapped customer deployments.
• Own platform reliability, performance, security, operational efficiency, and infrastructure costs.
• Lead incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with product, customer success, pre-sales, and customer security teams.
• Ensure effective documentation, monitoring, deployment procedures, and operational readiness. Required Skills and Experience
• 10–15 years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years managing engineering teams.
• Strong technical background in Python, distributed systems, and enterprise software architecture.




• Experience delivering and supporting on-premises or air-gapped software alongside cloud deployments.
• Experience with large-scale data platforms and distributed data collection systems.
• Practical understanding of ML/LLM workloads and GPU infrastructure.
• Solid knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Azure and/or GCP.
• Experience modernizing and scaling existing production systems.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills. Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), OSINT, social media intelligence, or digital risk protection.
• Exposure to government, defence, law enforcement, or regulated-industry customers.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, ClickHouse, and MLOps practices.
• Knowledge of secure software supply chain practices and enterprise deployment security. What Success Looks Like
• Clear ownership, documentation, and operational runbooks across all systems.
• A standardized release process for cloud and air-gapped deployments.
• Improved platform reliability, data freshness, and collection coverage.
• Published hardware sizing and deployment guidelines for on-premises customers.
• A well-defined roadmap for consolidating data acquisition and platform systems. Why Join Us?
• Lead engineering for a cyber intelligence platform supporting security and investigation teams.
• Build and shape a high-performing engineering organization.
• Work on challenging technologies across large-scale data collection, AI/ML infrastructure, and secure enterprise deployments.
• Influence engineering strategy, architecture, and product scalability.

How to Apply
Interested candidates can share their updated resumes at [email protected]. Email Subject: Application – Engineering Manager – Cyber Intelligence Platform Immediate joiners are preferred. Know someone who would be a good fit? Share this opportunity with them.
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📌 Engineering Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Pinaca Technologies
📍 Chennai