About the Role

Job Title: Director of Engineering
Employment Type: Contract
Department: Engineering
Location: Remote

Responsibilities:

• Organize engineering efforts to ensure timely delivery of customer needs while upholding high code quality, security, and service availability standards.
• Lead the recruitment, motivation, and management of highly technical teams focused on delivering online security and machine learning products at scale.
• Act as a liaison between product, engineering, customers, and sales to articulate and translate complex business requirements and technology solutions into useful products.
• Maintain a high level of assurance and software quality standards while ensuring development velocity; availability is core to nearly every requirement.
• Define, drive, and govern automation and instrumentation to ensure high observability and automate break-fix as much as possible.
• In partnership with sales and product teams, model go-to-market strategies for new offerings, oversee architecture, boost client acquisition capabilities, and improve delivery.
• Implement effective hiring and onboarding strategies.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience leading engineering teams of 20-60 people.
• Familiarity with high availability and high-security development processes, supported by strong knowledge of Python, NodeJS, and ideally C/C++, Go, or Rust.
• Experience and demonstrated success with DevOps/systems integration, lightweight development practices, meeting strong SLAs, and test-driven design in large-scale internet-facing systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems design on orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, including queue-first architectures and sharding.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated architecture and business/product need mapping expertise: gathering requirements, problem-solving, and reasoning about the best way forward given needs, timeline, and available resources.

Benefits:

• Fully remote position with flexible working hours.
• An inspiring team of colleagues spread all over the world.
• Pleasant, modern development and deployment workflows: ship early, ship often.
• High impact: lots of users, happy customers, high growth, and cutting-edge R&D.
• Flat organization with direct interaction with customer teams.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all members of our team. Join us as we transform cyber security, user privacy, and machine learning online!