Senior Director of Engineering for Proactive Offense (Cybersecurity)

Location: US, Remote; up to 10% travel may be required.

Base salary: $315,000–$370,000 annually, plus equity for full-time roles.

Company

hirify.global is a remote cybersecurity company developing NodeZero, a SaaS platform for autonomous penetration testing and proactive identification, exploitation, and validation of attack vectors.

What you will do

• Lead and scale the Proactive Offense engineering organization across offensive capabilities, exploit development, and attack automation teams.
• Define technical strategy, operating models, roadmaps, goals, and accountability mechanisms across multiple teams.
• Build and develop managers, technical leaders, and senior individual contributors through hiring, coaching, and organizational design.
• Guide architecture and design decisions for scalable NodeZero capabilities across offensive research, vulnerability exploitation, attack content, and automation.
• Drive capabilities from research and proof of concept through reliable, supportable production delivery.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, customer-facing, and go-to-market teams to align technical investment with customer outcomes, quality, reliability, and business priorities.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading and scaling software engineering organizations delivering SaaS or cybersecurity products, including leadership through managers and senior 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 software architecture and offensive security, including vulnerability research, exploit development, attack automation, or red-team operations.
• Experience taking complex technical capabilities from concept through production launch and continued operation at scale.
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud software, automation, large-scale SaaS platforms, platform design, system architecture, CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure as code, and observability.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and production SaaS or security platforms; familiarity with network protocols, Windows, Linux, and common enterprise technologies.
• Working knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL or Neo4j and data-flow design.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, C++, or C#, with experience building or guiding large-scale software systems.
• Product-oriented judgment, strong cross-functional partnership, excellent analytical, written, verbal, and storytelling skills, and a high degree of initiative, ownership, and accountability.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Awareness of cybersecurity industry standards and trends, with the ability to connect technical direction to customer and product needs.

Nice to have

• Offensive security certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, OSED, or GPEN.
• Experience mentoring teams on offensive tradecraft or developing proprietary offensive tooling.
• Experience scaling an engineering organization through significant hiring, organizational change, or product growth.
• Experience building B2B SaaS or security products in a startup or growth-stage company.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with a collaborative, inclusive culture focused on respect, ownership, learning, creativity, and results.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families.
• Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave.
• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles.
• Hybrid and remote work models exist across the company, with a Chicago office where some roles require regular in-office presence.