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Director of Engineering – Email Security
Location
California
Posted
1 day ago
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0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director of Engineering – Email Security
OPSWAT
• Lead as an AI-first effort ensuring automation and intelligence as the default. • Stay hands-on and directly engage with the codebase. • Own end-to-end delivery of the product roadmap set by Product Management. • Set technical direction and drive architecture and technology choices. • Build and lead a high-performance team across Romania and Hungary. • Drive performance-based management with clear expectations. • Hold a security-first quality bar incorporating code review with a security lens. • Raise engineering velocity continuously improving team workflows. • Codify AI-native practices for the portfolio facilitating adoption. • Partner cross-functionally with Product Management and other teams.
Job Requirements
- Full agentic development experience (required): You have personally run a full agentic, AI-powered SDLC end-to-end — and have done so in B2B and high-security enterprise environments where compliance, data sensitivity, and assurance requirements are non-negotiable.
- A product launched via a full AI-powered SDLC: demonstrable experience taking a product from spec to release using an end-to-end AI-assisted lifecycle.
- Proven engineering leadership: 8+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years leading engineering teams.
- Performance-based leadership: a track record of building high-performing teams through rigorous, fair performance management.
- Deep technical excellence: strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Scalable systems experience: a proven history building scalable, distributed solutions.
- Quality and test discipline: a high bar for tested, maintainable code.
- Distributed-team leadership: demonstrated ability to lead and align engineers across countries and time zones.
- Talent magnet and clear communicator: you create an environment where strong engineers can thrive.
- Security-conscious by default: you hold the team to a security-first bar on design, code review, and incident response.
Benefits
- Work from anywhere — a worldwide, remote-friendly role with a preference for the UK, USA, or a location near an OPSWAT-operated country.
- Stable, growing international company with an exceptional customer base across 50+ countries.
- A mandate to build AI-native engineering practices — and the latitude to do it your way.
- Attractive compensation with regular performance assessments and flexibility for the right candidate.
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