Director, Engineering - Platform
Lead multiple platform engineering teams building the foundational infrastructure for cybersecurity SaaS products. Drive technical strategy, AI tooling adoption, hiring, and manager development in a fully remote environment.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Deliver performant, scalable products iteratively, helping teams balance incremental customer value delivery with long-term product evolution
- Drive the technical roadmap and best practices for the product platform to enable scalability for rapid growth and increased user demand
- Innovate new uses for AI development tooling and tune current use to be more efficient over time
- Attract, recruit, and retain top engineering talent
- Hire and coach engineering managers to build and enable great teams
- Set clear expectations with leaders, provide regular feedback, and conduct regular performance conversations to foster a high-performing engineering team
- Clearly measure engineering performance to make necessary adjustments to team structure and/or processes to increase throughput and efficiency
- Identify opportunities and implement improvements to both the product and engineering practices and processes to optimize efficiency, quality, and time-to-market
- Partner with other engineering leaders, product leaders, and architects to ensure teams and technology are in sync and meet customer needs
- Collaborate with Architecture, Product Management, and Threat Operations teams to integrate their expertise and needs into products
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in engineering leadership building SaaS products in a modern SaaS environment
- 5+ years of experience at the director level or higher
- Hands-on experience with Claude Code or similar AI development tools
- Experience and knowledge of best practices for scalable delivery, core platform systems, site reliability engineering, and developer experience
- Experience developing, evolving, and maintaining high-volume, scalable solutions
- Deep understanding of organizing engineering teams to deliver customer value iteratively
- Skilled at hiring, building teams, leading, and coaching managers, and performance management
- Demonstrated success working with architecture and product management leaders to develop and execute a shared product and technical vision
- Experience in a fully remote environment
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with AI development tooling
Compensation & Benefits
- $240,000 to $300,000 base with bonus and equity
- 100% remote work environment
- Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
- 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
- Life and Disability insurance plans
- Stock options for all full-time employees
- One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
- Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
- $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
- Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth
Skills
SaaS, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Ai Development Tools, Claude Code, Scalable Systems, Engineering Leadership, Team Building, Performance Management, Technical Roadmap
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