Senior Director of Engineering

Who you are

• Significant experience leading SaaS or cloud service engineering organizations that deliver complex software products, including scaling teams through managers and technical leaders
• A track record setting engineering strategy and delivering across multiple teams or product areas in a fast-moving environment
• Strong technical judgment in cloud software, distributed systems, platform engineering, or similarly complex production environments—and the ability to engage credibly in architecture and design discussions
• Experience with AI- or agent-enabled products in production is valuable; sound judgment about their limitations, verification, and safe operation is essential
• Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous objectives into sequenced execution, manage scope and dependencies, and communicate risks and tradeoffs clearly
• Experience partnering closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering investment with customer and business outcomes
• A people-first leadership approach, with experience hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing teams across disciplines
• Excellent written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and a high degree of ownership and accountability
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Familiarity with security engineering, offensive security, vulnerability response, detection, or security-control validation
• Experience leading engineering in cybersecurity, penetration testing, security operations, or defensive security products
• Background spanning offensive security and defensive control platforms, such as endpoint, identity, network, or data security
• Experience building agent platforms or product workflows that connect detection, decision-making, and verified remediation
• Experience scaling a product organization from an early-stage team into multiple delivery teams
• Experience building strategic technical partnerships or working with managed security service providers (MSSPs) What the job involves
• As Senior Director of Engineering for Precision Defense, you'll set engineering direction and build the organization that turns NodeZero's offensive capabilities into proactive, actionable defense
• You will lead across three connected pillars: Tripwires and Deception, Security Controls Validation, and Blue Team Agents
• Together, these teams help customers design their defenses, test whether they work, and detect attacker activity that makes it past the perimeter
• You'll translate the Precision Defense charter into an executable engineering strategy, scale teams and leadership, and deliver dependable capabilities across defensive engineering, integrations, and AI-enabled workflows
• You'll partner closely with Product, leaders across Engineering and the company to focus investment, manage dependencies, and deliver customer outcomes
• Lead and scale the Precision Defense engineering organization
• Turn the organization's charter into a clear technical strategy, operating model, and sequenced roadmap, balancing near-term customer value with durable platform and team foundations
• Build an effective leadership structure as the organization grows, developing engineering managers, technical leads, and senior individual contributors with clear ownership and accountability
• Establish goals and operating mechanisms that make progress, quality, staffing needs, and risks visible across multiple teams
• Partner with technical leads on architecture and design, bringing sufficient depth to evaluate tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and ensure systems can evolve as the portfolio expands
• Partner with Product and engineering leaders to prioritize work across emerging-threat response, offensive engineering, deception, security-control validation, and agent-driven remediation
• Translate ambiguous goals into focused plans with explicit scope, measurable outcomes, and well-managed cross-team dependencies
• Ensure engineering investment supports a coherent customer experience—from understanding exposure and testing defenses to taking safe, practical action
• Surface tradeoffs early, communicate decisions clearly, and protect teams from competing priorities that would undermine delivery or quality
• Work closely with Product, the broader NodeZero engineering organization, and customer-facing teams to connect technical plans to customer needs and company priorities Benefits
• Growth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career advancement opportunities
• Innovation-Driven Culture: Work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking
• Flexible Work Environment: Enjoy the convenience and work-life balance that comes with remote work
• Inclusive and Diverse Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive