Senior Director of Engineering, Horizon3

• Significant experience leading and scaling software engineering organizations delivering SaaS or cybersecurity products, including leading through managers and senior technical leaders
• A track record of setting engineering strategy and delivering across multiple teams or product areas in a fast-moving environment
• Strong technical judgment in software architecture and offensive security domains such as exploit development, vulnerability research, attack automation, or red teaming
• Demonstrated success taking complex technical capabilities from concept through production launch and continued operation at scale
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud software, automation, and large-scale SaaS platforms, with the ability to guide architecture and design decisions
• A product-oriented mindset and sound judgment balancing technical excellence, customer impact, speed to market, and operational considerations
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing teams and leaders, and establishing clear accountability across an organization
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills, including alignment with Product and stakeholders across Engineering and go-to-market teams
• Excellent analytical, written, verbal, and storytelling skills; able to translate complex engineering concepts into clear direction and decisions
• A high degree of initiative, ownership, and accountability
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Deep familiarity with offensive security techniques and practices, including vulnerability research, exploit development, attack automation, or red-team operations, and the ability to translate them into scalable product capabilities
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, C++, or C#, with experience building or guiding the development of large-scale software systems
• Strong understanding of platform design, system architecture, and automation pipelines, including CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure as code, and observability practices
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and with production SaaS or security platforms
• Familiarity with network protocols, multiple operating systems (including Windows and Linux), and common enterprise technologies
• Working knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL, Neo4j, or similar, and data-flow design
• Awareness of cybersecurity industry standards and trends, with the ability to connect technical direction to customer and product needs
• We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we encourage all qualified individuals to apply

Desirable

• As Senior Director of Engineering for Proactive Offense, you’ll set the engineering direction and build the organization that turns offensive security research and capabilities into dependable, customer-facing NodeZero products
• You’ll lead through engineering managers, technical leaders, and senior individual contributors across multiple teams, balancing technical judgment with organization-wide strategy and execution
• You’ll shape how NodeZero identifies, exploits, and validates vulnerabilities across complex environments, and guide offensive capabilities from research and proof of concept through scalable production delivery
• You’ll partner closely with Product and leaders across Engineering, including Precision Defense and Platform, to align the Proactive Offense portfolio with customer needs and company priorities
• Lead and scale the Proactive Offense engineering organization across teams responsible for offensive capabilities, exploit development, and attack automation within NodeZero
• Translate the organization’s charter into a clear technical strategy, operating model, and sequenced roadmap, balancing customer value, product priorities, and durable engineering foundations
• Build an effective leadership structure as the organization grows; hire, coach, and develop managers, technical leaders, and senior individual contributors with clear ownership and accountability
• Establish goals and operating mechanisms that make progress, quality, capacity, dependencies, and risks visible across teams
• Partner with technical leaders on architecture and design, bringing sufficient depth to evaluate tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and ensure systems can evolve as the product and portfolio expand
• Partner with Product, Precision Defense, Platform, and customer-facing teams to prioritize work across offensive research, vulnerability exploitation, attack content, and automation
• Shape a coherent portfolio roadmap and translate ambiguous opportunities into focused plans with explicit scope, measurable outcomes, and well-managed cross-team dependencies
• Drive capabilities from proof of concept to production, ensuring research and innovation become reliable, scalable, supportable product features
• Ensure engineering investment advances customer outcomes while balancing technical quality, speed to market, operational needs, and responsible product behavior
• Surface tradeoffs early, communicate decisions clearly, and protect teams from competing priorities that would undermine delivery or quality
• Improve execution across multiple teams by establishing clear planning, decision-making, and delivery practices that support predictable progress without unnecessary process
• Hold the organization accountable for product quality, reliability, and maintainability throughout design, development, release, and ongoing operation
• Identify organizational and technical risks early, align owners on mitigation, and communicate material changes in scope, timing, or outcomes to stakeholders
• Use customer feedback, product performance, and engineering signals to evaluate results and continuously improve how the organization delivers
• Maintain enough technical depth to guide consequential decisions and help leaders resolve complex architectural or delivery challenges without becoming the day-to-day decision bottleneck
• Mentor technical leaders in building modular, resilient systems that translate offensive tradecraft into scalable NodeZero capabilities
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, and go-to-market teams to align offensive innovation with business priorities and the broader customer experience
• Foster a culture of collaboration, creativity, learning, and engineering excellence across disciplines and teams