Director of Engineering – Webapp, AI Attack

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

📋 Description

• Lead and cultivate the Webapp and AI Attack engineering teams.

• Define ownership, objectives, expectations, strategy, and roadmap throughout the portfolio.

• Construct leadership frameworks and recruit, mentor, and enhance managers, technical leaders, and senior individual contributors.

• Establish operational mechanisms for visibility into outcomes, progress, capacity, quality, dependencies, and risks.

• Oversee organizational health, talent management, career development, feedback, accountability, and succession planning.

• Promote an inclusive and psychologically safe workplace.

• Direct NodeZero’s web application attack portfolio, covering discovery, crawling, browser automation, authentication, session management, and attack coverage.

• Enhance the mapping of pages, forms, APIs, parameters, and authentication surfaces across contemporary applications.

• Formulate strategies for safe, reliable, and repeatable AI/LLM and agentic-system attack capabilities.

• Guide assessments of AI applications and infrastructure, looking at trust boundaries, permissions, tool usage, data sources, model serving, retrieval architectures, and enterprise deployments.

• Productize attack categories such as prompt injection, unsafe tool utilization, and AI supply-chain or deployment risks.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Platform, and customer-facing teams to convert opportunities into actionable plans.

• Lead intricate cross-team initiatives from planning stages to production.

• Assess architecture, system health, and engineering quality.

• Ensure adherence to practices across design, implementation, testing, release, monitoring, incident response, and production learning.

• Utilize customer feedback and engineering indicators to evaluate results and enhance delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Proven experience in managing multiple teams and nurturing engineering managers and senior technical leaders.

• Demonstrated success in setting strategy and achieving measurable outcomes across various teams.

• Strong technical acumen in software architecture, automation, distributed systems, and production operations.

• Experience transitioning complex capabilities from research or concept to dependable production delivery.

• Customer-focused product mindset with the ability to weigh innovation, coverage, reliability, safety, delivery speed, and maintainability.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Product, and customer-facing teams.

• Dedication to coaching, providing 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 navigating ambiguity.

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

• Familiarity with offensive security, web application penetration testing, vulnerability research, attack automation, or security products.

• Working knowledge of modern web application architecture, HTTP, authentication and session flows, APIs, browser automation, and testing applications at scale.

• Familiarity with AI/LLM and agentic-system security.

• Experience with cloud software and production platforms.

• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, TypeScript, Go, or an equivalent.

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

• Bonus: Experience with web crawling, browser automation, SSO, SAML, OIDC, AI/LLM security capabilities, agentic workflows, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATLAS, AWS, Azure, GCP, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, OSCP, OSEP, or OSWE.

🏝️ Benefits

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

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

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Generous parental leave.

• Opportunities for career development.

• An inclusive and collaborative work culture.

• Remote and hybrid work options depending on role and location.