Sr Director, Engineering

Role overview Lead engineering for a portfolio of enterprise security products, taking responsibility for technical direction, delivery, product quality, and organizational capability. The portfolio serves customers across on-premises, appliance, and SaaS deployments, with a focus on evolving cloud architecture and making AI-assisted engineering part of everyday development and operations.

Responsibilities - Set the portfolio’s engineering strategy and guide secure, reliable, scalable SaaS architecture on AWS while supporting other deployment models. - Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic methods across design, development, testing, release, and operational work; establish standards and measure results. - Own release quality and predictability, advancing automated and continuous testing across delivery pipelines. - Direct vulnerability response from triage through remediation and patch delivery, partnering on threat modeling, code review, and security testing. - Lead a multi-team organization through managers and senior leaders; build the leadership bench and set planning and execution practices. - Own budget, staffing, vendor, and tooling decisions, and represent engineering with product, executive, and customer stakeholders.

Requirements - At least 12 years in software engineering, including 5 or more years leading multi-team organizations through managers or directors. - Record of delivering enterprise software at scale, ideally across on-premises and SaaS environments. - Experience building security-sensitive software and leading vulnerability remediation in partnership with security teams. - Strong AWS experience, including the ability to discuss architecture, security, and cost. - Firsthand use of AI development tools and experience leading adoption across teams with measurable results. - Familiarity with modern SaaS practices such as multi-tenant architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated quality engineering. - Sound budget and vendor judgment, plus clear communication with executives, peers, and customers.

Nice to have - Identity or privileged access management experience; .NET/C# enterprise application leadership; or regulated cloud experience such as FedRAMP or StateRAMP. - Experience delivering AI-powered product capabilities or leading distributed teams across countries and time zones. - A bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience; a master’s degree is a plus.