Lead Software Engineer (Secrets Manager & AI Identity)

About Bitwarden Bitwarden is the trusted identity security leader for millions of users worldwide, empowering enterprises, developers, and individuals to securely manage and share sensitive information anywhere. Bitwarden makes it easy for all users to extend robust security across their devices with password management, secrets management, and passwordless and passkey innovations. The company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with team members located across the globe. Learn more at bitwarden.com. The Role As a Lead Software Engineer on Bitwarden’s Secrets Manager team, you will lead the design and development of the Secrets Manager application stack that lets developers, DevOps, and cybersecurity teams alike centrally store, manage, and deploy sensitive credentials. You'll own the core concepts of secrets, projects, machine accounts, and access tokens across the product suite. Secrets Manager spans a .NET API, a Rust SDK core, and a TypeScript and Angular web client, with SDK bindings in eight further languages and integrations written in Go, C++, Java, PHP and Python. You should be comfortable moving between languages and learning new ones as the work demands, developing deep expertise as you go. This Lead Software Engineer role is hands-on and does not carry any expectations for people management. You'll stay close to the code while driving architecture, technical direction, and complex, high-impact engineering problems. As our India Product Engineering organization grows, you'll help shape its engineering practices and also navigate opportunities to mentor and elevate other engineers through technical leadership. WHAT YOU WILL DO End-to-End Delivery & Ownership: Design, build, test, deploy, and operate secure, performant applications across the Secrets Manager suite. You are accountable for these services end to end, including the parts you did not personally write. Engineering Standards and Automated Quality: Set the bar in pull request review and own the team's conventions for testing, error handling, API design, and secure coding, keeping automated suites, integration harnesses, and CI/CD pipelines strong enough that manual testing is never the safety net. Maintain the architecture specifications, API contracts, and open source developer documentation that go with them. Decoupled Architecture and Service Boundaries: Maintain clean service boundaries and design resilient APIs so Secrets Manager can evolve independently of the core platform. Own the medium-term technical direction and record the reasoning behind significant decisions. Technical Mentorship: Grow the engineers around you. Pair on hard problems, give substantive design feedback, and mentor them to grow, Codebase Health: Contribute to performance, reliability, accessibility, and maintainability. Identify technical debt, articulate its cost, and sequence pragmatic refactoring alongside delivery.