Sr Manager - Customer Identity & Platform Engineering

Remote, USA

As a Senior Manager, Customer Identity & Platform Engineering, you’ll be part of our IT – Customer Engagement team working as a remote employee. We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader to own our Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) platform, backend engineering, AWS cloud services, and the shared platform capabilities that support these experiences.

You’ll get to:

• Lead and develop a team of software engineers, cloud engineers, and product owners.
• Define and execute the technology roadmap for Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM), backend services, and shared platform capabilities.
• Design, build, and operate secure backend services, APIs, and microservices that support websites, mobile applications, customer registration, warranty, service, and other digital products.
• Lead the architecture and operation of cloud-native solutions and shared services running on AWS.
• Build reusable platform capabilities that enable multiple product teams across the organization.
• Establish engineering best practices for DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, reliability, and platform performance.
• Partner with Product Management, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, and Data teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Ensure customer identity, backend services, and cloud platforms meet security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Drive platform modernization, improve engineering efficiency, and reduce technical debt.
• Coach and mentor engineers while fostering a collaborative, accountable engineering culture.

The Person:

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:

• 10+ years of software engineering, backend development, or platform engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams.
• Strong expertise in Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM), OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, and modern identity platforms.
• Experience designing and developing cloud-native backend applications, REST APIs, distributed systems, and microservices.
• Strong experience designing and operating solutions on AWS, including compute, networking, storage, databases, messaging, and monitoring services.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerized applications, and modern cloud architecture.
• Strong understanding of secure software development and privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams while balancing business priorities with engineering quality.
• A practical, collaborative leadership style with a passion for developing people and delivering reliable technology.

The Details:

You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan, including:

• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

And More:

We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:

• Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
• Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.
• Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
• Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship (H1B, OPT/CPT, TN etc).

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• This is the lowest to highest annual full-time salary range we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. The salary offered within the range may vary depending on multiple factors including job level, geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience and in compliance with local wage requirements. Please note that salary is only one component of total rewards at Stanley Black & Decker. ​
• The salary range listed in this job posting reflects the range for the primary location specified. The salary range may vary for other locations.​
• The successful candidate may be eligible for annual merit increases. ​
• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability,401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being. ​
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tool sand other partner programs.

You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.


The Salary range for this position is $110,600.00 - $178,000.00


You’ll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, retirement benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement. And, of course, discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 43,500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.