Engineering Director, Trail of Bits
Application Security
$250-300k
+ Bonus potential
More information about location
Security engineering firm
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Security engineering firm
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-300k
+ Bonus potential
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help secure the world's most targeted organizations and products.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in security, including significant time performing source code audits, not only penetration testing
- Recent, demonstrable hands-on security work (code review, vulnerability research, tool development) within the last 12 months
- Experience leading a team of 8+ engineers through client engagements with direct financial accountability
- Proficiency in at least 4 of: Rust, Go, Python, C/C++, Solidity, JavaScript/TypeScript
- Track record of managing project profitability, utilization, and staffing decisions in a consulting environment
- Experience building team members' careers and external visibility (conference talks, publications, open source contributions)
- Proficiency with AI coding and analysis tools in your own work
- Active contributions to the security community (research, tools, advisories, publications)
What the job involves
- You will lead Trail of Bits' Application Security practice: a team of 12 security engineers who perform code audits, vulnerability research, and secure design reviews for some of the most technically demanding clients in the industry
- This is a hands-on leadership role
- You will personally review audit findings, guide technical approaches, and maintain the credibility to engage with sophisticated clients who expect their security partner to operate at their level
- You will own the practice's financial performance, project staffing, and team development
- Your team works on source code
- They do static analysis, manual code review, fuzzing, and protocol-level vulnerability research across Rust, Go, C/C++, Python, Solidity, and JavaScript
- You need to be able to do this work yourself, not just manage people who do it
- Lead technical delivery. Own the quality and profitability of every engagement your team ships. Review findings, guide technical direction on complex audits, and step in when projects need senior expertise. Maintain direct relationships with your most important clients
- Staff and grow the practice. Make project assignment decisions that balance engineer development, client needs, and profitability. Manage utilization, identify when to hire, and build the pipeline through the intern program and recruiting. Own the practice's P&L
- Develop your engineers. Create space for your team to present at conferences, publish research, contribute to open source tools, and advance their careers. Identify and remove obstacles. Your success is measured by their output, not yours
- Set technical direction. Decide where the practice invests in tooling, methodology, and capability development. Stay hands-on enough to know what's working and what isn't. Ensure the team's approach evolves with the threat landscape and client needs
- Integrate AI into the practice. Champion and model the use of AI tools across your team's workflows. Help engineers adopt AI-assisted auditing, reporting, and research practices that amplify their effectiveness
Our take
As more and more commercial activities go online, companies are increasingly exposed to cybersecurity threats. This requires organizations to get serious about their digital security infrastructure. As a result, the business of cybersecurity auditing has boomed.
Trail of bits is one such auditing firm with a signature method: combining its top-quality research in the cybersecurity field with the approaches of a real-world hacker. Distinguishing itself even further, the company has engaged in a new strategy fit for a new market - blockchain. The cybersecurity firm is now one of the world’s most prominent blockchain code auditors.
It's an exploding niche for which Trail of Bits has also been able to create an entirely new business line. While also auditing on behalf of blockchain software businesses, it is also expanding a service of engaging the government & large financial institutions for work on evaluating the risks of blockchain software.
Trail of Bits is well positioned as a result. Even if, as some commentators predict, the bottom falls out of the blockchain industry, the firm has used the momentum to reinforce its position as a thought leader on cutting-edge technology, establishing important partnerships that will last regardless.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2023
$4m
SEED
Jan 2018
$0.2m
GRANT
Total funding: $5.4m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance with no-monthly-premiums
- Vision, Dental, Life & Disability Insurance
- Access to Kindbody for gynecology and fertility care
- Access to HealthAdvocate, Teledoc & OneMedical
- 401k with 5% company matching
- Competitive salaries
- Ongoing bonus opportunities
- ConnectYourCare Flex Spending Account (FSA)
- Commuter Benefits
- Fitness stipends
- Four weeks of PTO
- Fifteen company holidays
- 4 months paid parental leave
- End-of-year performance bonus
- Continuing education, public presentations and blog posts
- Recruiting & referrals
- Conferences & off-sites
- Company & team outings
- Virtual events
- Continuing education
- Training sessions & learning courses
- Internal research & development Projects
- Charitable donation matching
- Relocation assistance
- 1Password subscription
- Work from home stipend
- Remote work friendly
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Dan Guido
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Senior Security Consultant at iSEC Partners. Also worked as Threat Intelligence Lead for the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Former NSA Analyst.
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