Senior Director of Engineering (Cybersecurity)

Location: US, Remote; fully remote with up to 15% travel.

Base salary: $270,000–$365,000 annually. Full-time roles are eligible for equity in the form of stock options.

Company

hirify.global is a remote cybersecurity product company developing the NodeZero platform for production-safe autonomous penetration testing and security assessment operations.

What you will do

• Lead and scale the Precision Defense engineering organization across Tripwires and Deception, Security Controls Validation, and Blue Team Agents.
• Translate the organizational charter into technical strategy, operating models, sequenced roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Build the leadership structure by developing engineering managers, technical leads, and senior individual contributors.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and customer-facing teams to prioritize emerging-threat response, offensive engineering, deception, security-control validation, and agent-driven remediation.
• Guide architecture and design discussions, evaluate tradeoffs, and ensure systems can evolve as the portfolio expands.
• Manage scope, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities while connecting technical plans to customer and business outcomes.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading SaaS or cloud service engineering organizations delivering complex software products, including scaling teams through managers and technical leaders.
• Track record of setting engineering strategy and delivering across multiple teams or product areas in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong technical judgment in cloud software, distributed systems, platform engineering, or similarly complex production environments, with the ability to engage in architecture and design discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous objectives into sequenced execution, manage scope and dependencies, and communicate risks and tradeoffs clearly.
• Experience partnering with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering investment with customer and business outcomes.
• People-first leadership approach with experience hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and a high degree of ownership and accountability.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI- or agent-enabled products in production, including judgment about limitations, verification, and safe operation.
• Familiarity with security engineering, offensive security, vulnerability response, detection, or security-control validation.
• Experience leading engineering in cybersecurity, penetration testing, security operations, or defensive security products.
• Background spanning offensive security and defensive control platforms such as endpoint, identity, network, or data security.
• Experience building agent platforms or product workflows connecting detection, decision-making, and verified remediation.
• Experience scaling a product organization from an early-stage team into multiple delivery teams.
• Experience building strategic technical partnerships or working with managed security service providers.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, respectful, collaborative culture focused on ownership and results.
• Fully remote work, with a broader mix of remote and hybrid models across roles and locations.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families.
• Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave.
• Career development opportunities in a growing cybersecurity organization.
• Competitive compensation and equity eligibility for full-time roles.