Senior Director, Engineering – Proactive Offense

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

📋 Description

• Lead and expand the Proactive Offense engineering teams encompassing offensive capabilities, exploit development, and attack automation at NodeZero.

• Convert the organization’s mission into a technical strategy, operational model, and a phased roadmap.

• Develop a leadership framework and recruit, mentor, and nurture managers, technical leaders, and senior contributors.

• Set objectives and operational mechanisms that ensure visibility into progress, quality, capacity, dependencies, and risks.

• Collaborate with technical leaders on architecture and design, assessing trade-offs.

• Prioritize initiatives across offensive research, vulnerability exploitation, attack content, and automation alongside Product, Precision Defense, Platform, and customer-facing teams.

• Shape portfolio roadmaps and convert unclear opportunities into focused plans with quantifiable outcomes.

• Transition capabilities from proof of concept to dependable, scalable, and supportable production features.

• Balance customer outcomes with technical quality, market speed, operational requirements, and responsible product conduct.

• Enhance planning, decision-making, and delivery processes across various teams.

• Ensure accountability for product quality, reliability, and maintainability within the organization.

• Identify risks, align mitigation responsibilities, and communicate significant changes to stakeholders.

• Utilize customer feedback, product performance, and engineering indicators to assess outcomes and enhance delivery.

• Steer crucial technical decisions and navigate complex architectural or delivery issues.

• Mentor technical leaders in creating modular, resilient systems that convert offensive tradecraft into scalable NodeZero capabilities.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and go-to-market teams.

• Promote collaboration, creativity, learning, and engineering excellence.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in leading and scaling software engineering organizations that deliver SaaS or cybersecurity products.

• Proven experience in leadership roles involving managers and senior technical leaders.

• Demonstrated ability to set engineering strategy and deliver results across multiple teams or product domains in a dynamic environment.

• Strong technical judgment in software architecture and offensive security areas such as exploit development, vulnerability research, attack automation, or red teaming.

• Proven success in transitioning complex technical capabilities from concept to production launch and ongoing operation at scale.

• Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud software, automation, and large-scale SaaS platforms.

• Product-oriented decision-making that balances technical excellence, customer impact, market speed, and operational needs.

• Experience in hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams and leaders.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product, Engineering, and go-to-market teams.

• Exceptional analytical, written, verbal, and storytelling abilities.

• High level of initiative, ownership, and accountability.

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

• In-depth knowledge of offensive security techniques, including vulnerability research, exploit development, attack automation, or red-team operations.

• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, C++, or C#.

• Solid understanding of platform design, system architecture, automation pipelines, CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure as code, and observability.

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and production SaaS or security platforms.

• Familiarity with network protocols, Windows, Linux, and common enterprise technologies.

• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Neo4j, or similar databases and data-flow design.

• Awareness of cybersecurity industry standards and trends.

• Offensive security certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, OSED, or GPEN are considered advantageous.

• Experience in mentoring teams on offensive tradecraft or developing proprietary offensive tools is a plus.

• Experience in scaling an engineering organization through significant hiring, organizational changes, or product growth is a bonus qualification.

• Experience in building B2B SaaS or security products within a startup or growth-stage company is an additional benefit.

🏝️ Benefits

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

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

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Generous parental leave.

• Opportunities for career development.

• An inclusive culture.

• A collaborative environment that encourages creativity and innovative thinking.

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

• Up to 10% travel may be required.