Director of Engineering, Security Factory

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential DevSecOps platform provider seeking a Director of Engineering to lead their security engineering organization. In this role, you will:

• Set the engineering vision and multi-quarter roadmap across teams working on proprietary scanners, AI-driven security workflows, vulnerability management, and security foundations
• Lead a distributed engineering organization of managers and individual contributors, focusing on team performance, engagement, and career development
• Drive architectural decisions for AI and machine learning detection engines, agentic remediation flows, and scalable scanning infrastructure
• Partner with product management to define priorities, shape requirements, and deliver security capabilities for customers in regulated and security-conscious environments
• Own the engineering delivery of proprietary application security scanners, agentic remediation workflows, and AI security research efforts
• Represent the security engineering function in cross-functional planning, executive reviews, security disclosures, and customer conversations
• Establish engineering standards for delivery, observability, incident response, scanner quality, and code quality
• Contribute to the organization's transparent, async-first way of working through documentation and collaboration tools

What We're Looking For

• Experience leading engineering organizations with multiple teams and managers in a distributed, remote environment
• Strong understanding of application security fundamentals, including Static Application Security Testing, Software Composition Analysis, secret detection, vulnerability management workflows, and software supply chain security
• Experience building detection, analysis, or scanning systems in a SaaS or DevSecOps environment, including trade-offs across precision, recall, latency, and scale
• Direct experience shipping customer-facing AI or machine learning product features tied to detection or remediation quality outcomes
• Ability to partner closely with product management on roadmap planning, prioritization, and requirements in a product-led context
• Strong written communication skills and comfort leading through clear documentation in a remote, async-first organization
• Collaborative leadership style that supports teams, provides direct feedback, and fosters healthy team growth
• Familiarity with agentic AI systems, AI agent orchestration, threat intelligence research, or open source security tooling is beneficial; we welcome candidates with adjacent or transferable experience

How We Work With You

Candidates apply through Get A Job.ai, where our talent team will review your application and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all communication and coordination will be managed through our recruitment process to ensure a professional and organized experience for all parties.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and qualifications.

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