Pay Transparency at Ditto

Ditto uses a location-based compensation model. This means pay ranges for the same role may vary depending on where you live, based on cost of living and market data.The ranges you see on our job postings represent the full span of target compensation across all markets where we hire. Within that range, actual offers are determined by a candidate’s skills and experience. This ensures we remain competitive with local markets while also maintaining internal consistency and fairness in real spending power across locations.

About Ditto:

Ditto is redefining how data moves at the edge. Our mission is to make it seamless for developers to build resilient, real-time applications, regardless of network conditions. Whether you're in a stadium, airplane, or remote military base, Ditto's peer-to-peer sync engine ensures devices stay connected and data stays consistent, even without internet. With more than $145 million in funding and trusted by organizations like Chick-fil-A, Delta Airlines, and the U.S. military, Ditto powers mission-critical experiences across aviation, retail, travel, hospitality, defense, and more. As a globally distributed, fast-growing startup, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the wide range of perspectives needed to solve the world’s hardest connectivity problems.

The Role

We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) team and drive technical excellence across our Public Sector accounts. This is a high-impact, customer-facing leadership role at the intersection of deep technical work and enterprise delivery.

Your team of FDEs is embedded with our most strategic customers — solving hard integration problems, building proof-of-concepts, accelerating adoption, and acting as the technical voice of the customer back into Ditto's product and engineering org. In this role, you'll be both a people leader and a technical partner, helping your team thrive while ensuring Ditto delivers exceptional outcomes in complex PubSec environments.

What You'll Do

• Lead, grow, and retain a team of Forward Deployed Engineers supporting enterprise and public sector customers

• Set the bar for technical quality and customer engagement across the FDE practice

• Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, and Product to align engineering capacity with strategic account priorities

• Provide hands-on technical guidance on Ditto integrations, edge deployments, and architecture — particularly in air-gapped, disconnected, and classified environments

• Own the team's delivery execution: scoping engagements, managing workloads, removing blockers, and ensuring customers hit their milestones

• Drive hiring, onboarding, and career development for FDE team members

• Establish scalable processes, playbooks, and tooling to improve how the team works across a growing customer base

• Represent technical requirements of PubSec customers internally, influencing roadmap and product decisions

• Navigate the nuances of government procurement, compliance requirements (FedRAMP, IL4/IL5, CMMC), and security-conscious customer environments

What We're Looking For

• 3–6+ years of engineering management experience, ideally with a field or customer-facing engineering team

• Strong software engineering background — you can read code, engage on architecture, and earn the trust of senior ICs

• Experience working with or within the Public Sector, Defense, or Federal markets; familiarity with ITAR, FedRAMP, or DoD environments is a strong plus

• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent customer engagements with competing priorities

• Excellent communication skills — you can translate between business needs and engineering constraints, for both technical and non-technical audiences

• Track record of building and developing high-performing teams

• Comfort operating in ambiguity; Ditto moves fast and this role requires judgment as much as process

• Ability to obtain a US security clearance (or active clearance) is preferred

Nice to Have

• Experience with peer-to-peer sync, edge computing, or offline-first architectures

• Background in mobile, embedded, or IoT systems

• Prior FDE, solutions engineering, or professional services leadership experience

The Benefits of Building with Us

We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity. We believe everyone on the team should have a stake in what we’re building. Benefits vary by region to make sure you're covered in the ways that matter most. In the US, that includes health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, plus a 401(k) and flexible spending accounts.

Regardless of where you live, everyone at Ditto can utilize flexible time off. And while we work remotely, our Atlanta and San Francisco offices are open if you ever want a place to work or meet up with teammates.

Apply Anyway

At Ditto, we know game-changers don’t always come wrapped in a “perfect” resume. Years of experience? Every single bullet point checked? Meh. That’s not what drives us.

What does matter?

• Grit.

• Curiosity.

• Adaptability.

• And a genuine spark for what we’re building.

So if you’re fired up about our mission but not sure you tick every box - hit that apply button anyway. Use your application to show us how you’ll make an impact here.

We’re always on the lookout for exceptional humans who want to grow, stretch, and build something meaningful with us.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Ditto is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Ditto is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let us know.

Compensation Range: $222K - $283K