Senior Director, Software Engineering

Responsibilities

• Set the engineering strategy for your area of the Protect platform and turn long-term product and business goals into clear technical plans.
• Lead and develop engineering managers and senior engineers, creating strong teams with clear ownership, healthy operating rhythms, and meaningful growth paths.
• Deliver complex distributed systems predictably and at high quality, balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and long-term technical health.
• Partner closely with Product, Research, Security, and executive stakeholders to align roadmap priorities, technical investments, and customer outcomes.
• Raise the bar on architecture, observability, operational excellence, and developer productivity across your area.
• Use metrics and sound engineering judgment to improve delivery health, team effectiveness, and the resilience of systems running at scale.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful people leadership in software, platform, or infrastructure environments.
• Proven experience owning and scaling distributed systems, APIs, or microservices in production, ideally in SaaS environments.
• Strong technical depth in cloud-native systems and modern engineering practices across AWS and/or GCP.
• A track record of improving execution through better engineering metrics, process discipline, and organizational design.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in fraud prevention, authentication, voice biometrics, risk engines, or related security domains.
• Familiarity with data science infrastructure, machine learning, or generative AI in production.
• Experience leading remote or distributed engineering teams during periods of growth and change.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including RSUs for all employees.
• Remote-first environment.
• Regular team on-sites, company-wide events, and intentional gatherings.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).
• Generous health and welfare plans, including one employer-paid “employee-only” plan.
• Best-in-class Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contribution.
• Low-cost vision and dental plans.
• Paid Parental Leave (birth, adoptive & foster parents).
• One year of diaper delivery for new parents.
• Recurring monthly phone and internet allowance.
• Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits.
• Annual Learning & Development stipend.