Director of Software Engineering, SpyCloud
AI-Forward Console Platform
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
Cybercrime analytics platform
Open for applications
Cybercrime analytics platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To protect businesses and consumers from the stolen identity data criminals are using to target them now.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in software engineering with significant experience in scalable web architecture
- Proven ownership of multi-tenant SaaS systems at meaningful customer scale
- Strong backend and frontend systems intuition (Go and modern React environments)
- Deep experience operating cloud-native systems in AWS
- Experience integrating LLMs or ML-driven capabilities into production systems
- Understanding of evaluation frameworks, prompt patterns, guardrails, and cost-performance tradeoffs
- Clear thinking around where AI creates durable advantage vs. noise
- Experience leading senior and staff-level engineers
- Ability to influence technical direction beyond direct reporting lines
- Strong design review discipline and decisive architectural judgment
- Track record of improving engineering execution and product alignment
What the job involves
- SpyCloud is hiring a Director of Software Engineering to lead the Console platform powering our Threat Protection product
- This is a high-impact role focused on architectural rigor, platform evolution, and AI-enabled engineering leverage
- You will lead a senior-heavy team (~10 engineers) responsible for a multi-tenant SaaS platform Spycloud's customers
- Your mandate is not to scale headcount, it is to scale output, innovation, and system durability through strong architecture and applied AI
- This role reports to the VP of Engineering and operates as a key technical partner with cross-team influence
- Own the architectural direction of a multi-tenant Console platform built on Go, React, and AWS, with Domain-Driven Design
- Elevate system design rigor across APIs, tenant isolation, RBAC, observability, and deployment safety
- Establish durable platform boundaries and reduce feature-factory behavior
- Lead design reviews and technical arbitration across teams
- Embed applied AI into the Console ( intelligent workflows, LLM-powered summarization, ML-powered insights)
- Architect production-grade AI integrations with attention to guardrails, evaluation, cost, and latency
- Ensure AI features are secure, observable, and reliable in a multi-tenant environment
- Introduce AI agents and automation into the engineering lifecycle
- Design and build AI workforce model to increase output without linear headcount growth
- Incubate and lead a focused applied AI capability within the team
- Set standards for responsible AI usage in development and product
- Partner deeply with Product to align roadmap, architecture, and long-term platform strategy
- Translate business outcomes into scalable system capabilities
- Improve execution clarity, ownership, and delivery predictability
Our take
Mainstream browsers are heavily monitored to help combat cybercrime, but these browsers are generally not used by digital criminals. The 'dark web' operates outside of the legal web, with criminals using such platforms to sell login details and other sensitive information.
SpyCloud provides a web plugin that monitors websites and forums on the dark web to inform companies of when sensitive data that matches their credentials is located. This allows companies to identify and take action upon a data breach before any harm can be done.
There are many fraud and cybercrime detection software companies on the market but SpyCloud's specialization in monitoring the dark web has carved it out a distinct niche. This has seen it attract an impressive client list of over 500 enterprises, as well as significant funding that supports further platform development.
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Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2024
$35m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2023
$110m
LATE VC
Total funding: $203.5m
Company benefits
- Health benefits: From medical to dental, we’ve got you covered.
- Work/life balance: We offer generous PTO and a remote-friendly culture.
- Compensation: Our talented employees enjoy competitive salaries and equity.
- 401k matching: Investing in the future of our employees is a no-brainer.
- SpyCares: We’re only as strong as the communities we’re a part of and giving back is in our DNA.
Company HQ
Bouldin Creek, Austin, TX
Leadership
Ted Ross
(Co-Founder & CEO)Ted worked in Security Systems for the US Air Force before working in Engineering at West Corporation, Wal-Mart and Extreme Networks. He also worked at HP for 4 years in Threat Intelligence before co-founding SpyCloud in 2016.
Alen Puzic
(Co-Founder & CIO)Prior to SpyCloud, Alen co-founded PwnedList and served as the CTO for 5 years. He also served as the VP of Development at InfoArmor and as a Security Engineer at Click Security and TippingPoint. Before this, he spent 4 years at IBM as a Software Engineer.
Ronak Patel
(CTO)Ronak joined SpyCloud in 2018 as a Director of Engineering, he then moved into the role of VP of Engineering in 2019 and CTO in 2023. Prior to SpyCloud, he was a Lead Software Engineer at ReIntent, a Lead Platform Engineer at Waterfall and an IT Specialist at IBM.
Damon Fleury
(CPO)Damon joined SpyCloud in 2022 as VP of Strategy, moving into the role of CPO that same year. Previously, he worked as a Security Product & Service Strategy Consultant at Argyle Technologies and served as the CTO of Ataraxis Cyber.
Brad Rouse
(CRO)Prior to joining SpyCloud in 2025, Brad served as the CRO at Protegrity and Qrypt. He also spent 6 years at Entrust as a Director of SSL Sales Americas, Entrust Certificates Services and as the Global VP of SSL Sales.
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