Director, Engineering - Cloud Detection Platform (Remote)

Location: USA - Remote

Salary: $195,000–$290,000 per year, plus bonus eligibility, equity grants, and benefits.

Company

Cybersecurity company building an AI-native platform that protects organizations by preventing breaches and processing large-scale security data.

What you will do

• Own the multi-year strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Cloud Detection Platform.
• Lead and grow multiple teams of managers and senior engineers across the full talent lifecycle.
• Manage reliability, latency, capacity, quotas, SLOs, and cost of detection rule execution at fleet scale.
• Drive a unified architecture for scheduled, real-time, and retrospective detection engines.
• Partner with detection engineering, content, product management, and data platform teams on roadmap delivery.
• Build validation, staged deployment, rollback, exclusion management, testing, and observability capabilities for safe detection-content releases.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing engineering teams and 2+ years managing managers.
• Experience owning large-scale distributed systems in production, preferably data-intensive query, search, streaming, or rule-processing platforms.
• Accountability for strategic outcomes over one-to-two-year horizons.
• Strong architectural judgment and experience influencing technical direction and build, buy, or consolidation decisions.
• Experience with SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and cost management for customer-facing services.
• Excellent communication skills and experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience in security, detection engineering, SIEM, or threat intelligence.
• Experience with detection-as-code, content management systems, or rule authoring platforms.
• Experience with multi-tenant capacity management, fair-usage models, or cloud-scale COGS optimization.
• Experience integrating AI-assisted or agentic workflows into engineering practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with flexibility and autonomy.
• Health and wellness programs, paid parental and adoption leave, vacation, and holidays.
• Professional development opportunities for employees at all levels.
• Employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
• Bonus eligibility, equity grants, health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.