Director of Engineering, Threat Research

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

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering teams responsible for NodeZero Rapid Response and Threat Hunting products.

• Take ownership of engineering strategy, execution, and the overall health of both teams.

• Develop a follow-the-sun vulnerability research capability with sub-teams located in Europe and Asia.

• Direct and nurture engineering organizations, establishing ownership, goals, operational expectations, and measurable outcomes.

• Define engineering strategies and roadmaps that align with customer needs, product priorities, security research, and engineering investments.

• Construct leadership structures by hiring, coaching, and developing managers, technical leaders, and senior individual contributors.

• Manage talent planning, career development, feedback, performance, retention, and succession planning.

• Establish operational mechanisms to provide visibility into priorities, delivery, capacity, dependencies, quality, and risks.

• Promote an inclusive and psychologically safe culture with high standards for rigor, accountability, collaboration, and learning.

• Lead the strategy for Rapid Response and automation/AI-assisted research workflows.

• Connect asset and exposure context, technology fingerprints, patch information, and signals to customer notifications.

• Recruit and develop vulnerability researchers and leaders across various regions.

• Design staffing models, regional ownership, handoff processes, escalation paths, shared queues, and playbooks for round-the-clock execution.

• Direct the engineering direction for Threat Hunting, including agent and product capabilities for investigating access, movement, and impact.

• Transform threat-hunting, SOC, and incident-response needs into scalable investigation workflows and customer-facing capabilities.

• Guide the use of security telemetry, attack context, detection logic, and data integrations.

• Establish practices for quality, reliability, observability, and evaluation.

• Ensure Threat Hunting integrates seamlessly with NodeZero customer workflows, APIs, and integrations.

• Collaborate across Product, Engineering, Platform, Data, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, and Channel teams.

• Lead intricate cross-team initiatives from discovery to production.

• Maintain technical judgment across architecture, research automation, data-intensive systems, product quality, and operational readiness.

• Ensure robust practices in design, implementation, testing, release, monitoring, incident response, and production learning.

• Leverage customer feedback, product behavior, research outcomes, and field signals to enhance organizational efforts.

• Communicate emerging threat findings and product capabilities to both technical and non-technical audiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience leading software engineering teams that develop customer-facing products, preferably in cybersecurity or technically complex SaaS environments.

• Proven experience in leading multiple teams and cultivating engineering managers and senior technical leaders.

• A track record of creating accountable, high-performing organizations.

• Experience in setting strategy and delivering results across a portfolio with measurable outcomes.

• Experience in building or scaling distributed teams and ensuring operational coverage across regions and time zones.

• Capability to establish sustainable 24/7 operating practices.

• Strong technical judgment in software architecture, automation, data systems, and production operations.

• Experience in advancing technically complex capabilities from research, prototype, or concept to reliable production delivery.

• A customer-oriented product mindset with sound judgment in balancing innovation, speed, coverage, reliability, safety, and maintainability.

• Ability to forge partnerships across Engineering, Product, and customer-facing teams.

• A commitment to coaching, providing clear performance feedback, inclusive leadership, and fostering a healthy team culture.

• Exceptional written, verbal, and analytical communication skills.

• High levels of initiative, ownership, and accountability; comfortable operating under ambiguity.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience with production software engineering and proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language.

• Understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and operational readiness.

• Ability to evaluate technical designs and implement quality controls for security-sensitive, customer-facing systems.

• Bonus: experience in vulnerability research, exploitability analysis, threat hunting, incident response, or detection engineering.

• Bonus: familiarity with SOC, threat-hunting, or incident-response workflows; security telemetry; attack techniques; and MITRE ATT&CK framework.

• Bonus: experience in vulnerability research, exploit development, threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, or security product engineering.

• Bonus: experience with AI/LLM-assisted research, analysis, or security workflows.

• Bonus: experience building follow-the-sun teams or leading global, time-sensitive operations.

• Bonus: contributions to vulnerability research, published advisories, open-source tooling, technical publications, or conference presentations.

• Bonus: familiarity with reverse engineering or languages such as C, C++, Rust, or Assembly.

• Bonus: experience with cloud environments and large-scale software products.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time positions.

• Health, vision, and dental insurance coverage for you and your family.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Generous parental leave.

• Opportunities for career development.

• Remote and hybrid work models based on role and location.

• An inclusive and collaborative culture.

• Up to 15% travel to support team, customer, and company needs.