Senior Director, Engineering, Precision Defense

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

📋 Description

• Lead and expand the Precision Defense engineering organization.

• Establish the technical strategy, operating model, and a sequenced roadmap.

• Create leadership structures while nurturing engineering managers, technical leads, and senior individual contributors.

• Set goals and operational mechanisms to ensure visibility of progress, quality, staffing needs, and risks.

• Collaborate with technical leads on architecture and design initiatives.

• Prioritize tasks across emerging-threat response, offensive engineering, deception, security-control validation, and agent-driven remediation.

• Convert ambiguous objectives into targeted plans with defined scope and measurable results.

• Oversee cross-team dependencies and shield teams from conflicting priorities.

• Guarantee that engineering investments enhance a cohesive customer experience.

• Collaborate with Product, NodeZero engineering, and customer-facing teams to synchronize technical plans with customer and company priorities.

• Transform NodeZero's offensive capabilities into proactive and actionable defense mechanisms across tripwires, deception, security controls validation, and blue team agents.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience leading SaaS or cloud service engineering organizations delivering intricate software products.

• Proven experience in scaling teams through effective managers and technical leaders.

• Demonstrated success in setting engineering strategy and delivering results across multiple teams or product areas in a dynamic environment.

• Strong technical acumen in cloud software, distributed systems, platform engineering, or similarly complex production environments.

• Ability to engage credibly in architecture and design conversations.

• Experience with AI- or agent-enabled products in production is advantageous.

• Sound judgment regarding AI/agent limitations, verification, and safe operational practices.

• Capability to translate ambiguous goals into structured execution, manage scope and dependencies, and communicate risks and trade-offs effectively.

• Experience collaborating with Product and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Proven ability to hire, coach, and develop high-performing teams across various disciplines.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrated sound judgment along with a high level 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 is a plus.

• Experience in leading engineering in cybersecurity, penetration testing, security operations, or defensive security products is beneficial.

• Experience in building agent platforms or product workflows that connect detection, decision-making, and verified remediation is a plus.

• Experience in forming strategic technical partnerships or collaborating with MSSPs is beneficial.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Required to disclose if employment visa sponsorship will be necessary.

🏝️ 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.

• Career development opportunities.

• A culture that is inclusive and collaborative.

• Options for remote and hybrid work models depending on the role and location.

• Up to 15% travel may be required.