Director of Engineering, Sensor Detection Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Minnesota.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the multi-year strategy, architecture, and roadmap for on-sensor detection, encompassing execution engines, template and pattern frameworks, process classification, and content delivery infrastructure.

• Lead and nurture a team of managers and senior engineers across various groups.

• Oversee hiring, coaching, performance management, and succession planning within the organization.

• Be responsible for detection efficacy and endpoint footprint, which includes CPU, memory, and I/O costs.

• Set performance budgets, establish regression gates, and define fleet health SLOs.

• Ensure safe and effective delivery of detection content through pre-release validation, staged channel-file deployments, rollback procedures, exclusion management, and comprehensive end-to-end testing across various OS platforms and sensor versions.

• Foster on-sensor intelligence, focusing on process classification for AI and agentic workloads as well as runtime foundations for on-sensor model inference.

• Collaborate with detection content engineering, core sensor teams, Cloud Detection Platform, and product management to develop a hybrid sensor/cloud detection architecture.

• Aim to reduce support escalation volume, maintain a reliable testing infrastructure, and optimize release operations.

• Manage escalations and coordinate cross-team dependencies.

• Represent the platform in architectural and planning discussions across the product organization.

• Lead the annual operating plan and organizational planning for the respective area.

• Oversee a platform whose detection engines function on hundreds of millions of endpoints in real time.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in software engineering.

• At least 5 years of experience managing engineering teams.

• More than 2 years of experience managing other managers.

• Extensive endpoint experience, particularly with EDR/endpoint security agents.

• Knowledgeable in OS internals for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

• Experience with performance and compatibility standards for endpoint software.

• Proven track record of safely delivering software and content updates to large distributed fleets.

• Demonstrated accountability for strategic outcomes over one- to two-year timeframes.

• Strong architectural insight, including efficacy versus footprint trade-offs and make/buy/consolidate decisions.

• Experience in managing incident response, ensuring release safety, monitoring fleet health, and handling escalations.

• Ability to lead through uncertain times, organizational changes, competing priorities, and cross-team dependencies.

• Excellent communication skills to interact effectively with executives, peers, and engineers.

• Proven experience leveraging AI technologies to improve decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, enhance efficiency, and drive business results.

• Bonus: Experience in detection engineering, malware analysis, or threat intelligence.

• Bonus: Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK evaluations.

• Bonus: Experience with detection-as-code, content management systems, or rule/template authoring platforms.

• Bonus: Knowledge of on-device ML, model runtimes, inference on heterogeneous hardware, or deploying resource-constrained models.

• Bonus: Experience integrating AI-assisted or agentic workflows into engineering practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Industry-leading compensation and equity awards.

• Comprehensive programs for physical and mental wellness.

• Competitive vacation and holiday policies for personal recharge.

• Paid parental and adoption leave.

• Professional development opportunities available for all employees, regardless of level or role.

• Employee Networks, neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to foster connections.

• A vibrant office culture complemented by world-class amenities.

• Bonuses.

• Equity grants.

• Health insurance.

• 401k plan.

• Paid time off.